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San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
By 1923 the desert community of Palm Springs was attracting the notice of the wealthy. The famed Desert Inn catered to an exclusive clientele. Pg. 133.
photCL SCE 11 - 00276
Manuscripts
Grace Burke Hubble in Palm Canyon. Note in the hand of Edwin Powell Hubble on verso: "Palm Canyon Calif., Grace 1920-1921". Grace Hubble is standing in the desert scrub, with palm trees behind her.
mssHUB 1046 (8)
Manuscripts
Grace Burke Hubble in Palm Canyon. Note in the hand of Edwin Powell Hubble: "Grace, Palm Canyon Calif." Grace Hubble is standing amongst desert scrub, with plam trees behind her.
mssHUB 1046 (7)
Visual Materials
Panoramic view of Palm Springs, California, showing various buildings and houses, trees, gardens, and lawns. Mountain ranges are on either side of the photograph, and the desert in the background. The rounded roof of a building says "Palm Springs" and another sign says "Palm Springs __" (center, left).
photCL 555
Visual Materials
A slightly out of focus scan of a photograph of a road through the desert and palm garden. The label that accompanies this photo in the album reads "No. 71 Cactus and palm garden, about 1920."
photCL 107 vol3 pg49
Visual Materials
A panoramic view of the Kettleman Hills oil field in Kings County. There is an oil rig on the left which belongs to Powell-Stockton Investment Co. The derrick has a few sheds nearby, and two circular storage tanks on the hill just beyond it. A man in a dark suit stands on a slope between the camera and the derrick. The surrounding land is dry and hilly, with only low scrub growing.
photCL 470 (216)
