Horse-drawn water wagon and encampment, Greenwater, circa 1907, rephotographed 1933

Item Overview

Title

Horse-drawn water wagon and encampment, Greenwater, circa 1907, rephotographed 1933

Date Created

circa 1907
1933

Date

1907

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph appears with the article, “The Desert’s 'Delirious Decade.' You know about the Forty-niners and Nome and Dawson of ’98, but here are some stories of an even more hectic era in the West’s mining history, as recalled by a man who had a part in helping make some of that history—An interview with Carl B. Glasscock.” Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 1933.
Photograph of print
About 24 horses hitched to water wagon, on desert hillside, with two men near wagon, tents and another wagon in foreground

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Greenwater’s water train, which hauled water forty miles to the town. The team consumed half the water making the trip, but the remainder brought fifteen cents a gallon.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, Greenwood [Greenwater]
Handwritten at edge of print: When the water wagon comes to Greenwater. These horses drink $50 worth of water each day. The cobbler in Greenwater is also the fotographer. His studio in the foreground is too modest.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

Greenwater (Calif.)
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Horse teams--California--Greenwater
Transportation
Water supply--California--Greenwater
Copper mining--California--Greenwater