Chester Versteeg pronounces Tulainyo Lake to be highest body of water, Tulainyo Lake, 1935

Title: Chester Versteeg pronounces Tulainyo Lake to be highest body of water, Tulainyo Lake, 1935
Date Created: October 1935
Date: 1935-10
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Versteeg, chairman of the geographic committee of the Sierra Club, has announced that the highest lake on the American continent is in the California Sierras. He is believed to be the first man to swim across Tulainyo.
Photograph appears with the article, "Highest Lake in America Discovered in California," Los Angeles times, 17 Oct 1935: A5.
A picture of a portrait photograph of Versteeg wearing a large hat. The newspaper caption along with part of the article and the bottom half of him is clipped to the base of the photograph.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 2511 - Chester Versteeg Chairman, Sierra Club geographic committee [Discovered highest value on American Continent (in Sierra)] Copy 10-22-35 [stamped:] Oct 26 1935
Handwritten on negative: 10-22-35
Text from newspaper caption: Chester Versteeg Murillo photo

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_8976
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dgzcj
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