Walter E. Scott, or "Death Valley Scotty" in front of a painting, circa 1925 -1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Walter E. Scott, or "Death Valley Scotty" in front of a painting, circa 1925 -1935
- Date Created
- [circa 1925 -1935]
- Date
- 1925/1935
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Walter E. Scott, or "Death Valley Scotty" in front of a painting of 2 cowboys riding horsed into a saloon
Walter E. Scott, or "Death Valley Scotty," was a prospector, performer, and con man, who was made famous by his many scams involving gold mining and the iconic mansion in Death Valley, popularly known as Scotty's Castle. - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: Death Valley Scotty
Text from negative sleeve: Scott, Walter. death valley scotty
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 4 x 5 inches
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Scott, Walter E., 1872-1954
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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People
Paintings
Swindlers--California--Death Valley
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2851
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002ckq2f
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .