Visual Materials

The lowest depression of the Colorado Desert (265 feet below sea level) before the overflow of the Colorado River - 1891 - filled the basin and formed the Salton Sea

Description: Landscape view of desert and mountains with large clouds overhead.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1891
Call number: photCL 312
Creator: Monsen, Frederick (1865-1929)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased by Henry E. Huntington from Frederick Monsen, 1923.
Dimensions: images approximately 11 x 14 in. on oversize mounts approximately 21 x 26 in. +
Find out more: View in the Huntington Digital Library(Opens in new tab); View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

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