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Main Street, Lone Pine, California

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Title	Main Street, Lone Pine, California
Creator	Porter, Merle
Date Range	circa 1960-1970
Description	Street view of stores, markets, cafes, restaurants, Texaco fuel station, and cars on the streets.
Note	On back: "Main Street, Lone Pine, California. The first cabin to be built on Lone Pine Creek was in 1861, two years later a good size settlement had sprung up. On March 26, 1872 a severe earthquake shook the Owens Valley. Land dropped as much as 12 feet, twenty-six people were killed in the quake, twenty-one of them were buried in a single grave a short distance north of town along the present highway. Mt. Whitney (El. 14,495 ft., highest point in the 49 states) is located west of town along with the Alabama hills, location for a great number of motion pictures...M.P. B-935 Photo-color by Merle Porter. S-64427."
Physical Description	9 x 14 cm
Genre	Postcards
Subject	Streets--California--Lone Pine; Stores & shops--California--Lone Pine; Business districts; Automobiles; Storefronts; Restaurants; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
Geographic Location	Lone Pine (Calif.); Inyo County (Calif.); Owens Valley (Calif.)
Publisher	Royal Pictures, Colton, California
Repository	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Collection Title	Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
Object Identifier	sc_wbpc00043
Copyright	http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Sponsor	Support provided by the Metabolic Studio.
Type	Image
Format	image/tiff
Language	eng

Title	Front
Repository	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Collection Title	Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
Identifier	sc_wbpc000430001
Object Identifier	sc_wbpc00043
Copyright	http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Sponsor	Support provided by the Metabolic Studio.
Type	Image
Format	image/tiff

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Main Street, Lone Pine, California