Artists Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff at Beckwourth Pass during the Golden State Mutual mural research tour, Chilcoot (California), 1948

Title: Artists Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff at Beckwourth Pass during the Golden State Mutual mural research tour, Chilcoot (California), 1948
Alternative title: G.S.M. mural research tour with Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff
Date Created: August 1948
Date: 1948-08
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description: Artists Charles Alston (L) and Hale Woodruff (R) at the landmark at Beckwourth Pass, the lowest mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, with notebooks or sketchbooks. They were researching the mural for the new building of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Beckwourth Pass was discovered by James P. Beckwourth in 1850. Beckwourth developed Beckwourth Trail, traversing the pass, that was used by immigrants during the Gold Rush from 1851 to 1855. After that, the railroad came into use.
Caption: Landmark inscription: Emigrant Train / Beckwourth Pass / Elevation 5231 [...]

Genre: photographs
Names: Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Woodruff, Hale, 1900-1980
Alston, Charles, 1907-1977
Beckwourth, James Pierson, 1798-1866
Subject Geographic: Chilcoot (Calif.)
Longitude: 39.789827
Latitude: -120.111308
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Mountain passes
African American artists
Beckwourth Trail (Calif. and Nev.)