Sundial on a courtyard wall at Scotty's Castle, viewed from below, Death Valley National Park, 1947

Item Overview

Title

Sundial on a courtyard wall at Scotty's Castle, viewed from below, Death Valley National Park, 1947

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

March, 1947

Date

1947-03

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

NRHP reference # 78000297
Photograph of a sundial on a courtyard wall at Scotty's Castle in Death Valley National Monument, as viewed from below. In the foreground, a log oriented vertically stretches on an angle through the center of the image. Two logs atop it run perpendicular to it, across the image. Beyond the latticed logs, the top of a courtyard wall stretches along the bottom edge. In the lower right corner, a sundial is inset onto a tower wall. A cupola sits atop the tower that stretches above the sundial. Clear skies occupy the majority of the image.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2263. Death Valley trip March 1947. Death Valley Scotty castle at Grapevine Creek. Mertie West before the arch Zetta Witherby walking toward her. L to R Zetta Witherby. Wes Witherby. Mertie West Dde [sic] Witherby. Mertie facing camera. The sun dial on the wall. The guest house. Dogs tackling a burro. W W Witherby getting a drink at one of the springs. 7 films

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Scotty’s Castle (Calif.)

Location

Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.)

Longitude

37.032362

Latitude

-117.34137

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Sundials--California--Death Valley National Park
Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.)