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Lone Pine digital images and inventory

 Collection — Pamphlet-Binder: 1
Identifier: 6251

Scope and Contents

A collection of forty-eight digital image files stored on a compact disc, along with a printed inventory describing each image. The images show the town and surrounding area of Lone Pine, California, including images of the Owens Valley and Owens River. The digital images in this collection are digital surrogates of original photographs. The collection does not hold the original photographs, which are dated between 1880 and 1970. The image files are titled with numbers that correspond to the numbers and descriptions on the printed inventory. The image files' "date created" and "date modified" dates range from 2010 to 2014. Most of the image files are saved in the JPG file format, but a few of the files have PNG or BMP formats. Below is a transcription of the printed inventory.

Lone Pine Vintage Photos

  1. Earliest known photo of Lone Pine Ca. Owens Valley. Glass negative
  2. Lone Pine early street scene
  3. Meysan general store. First general store in Lone Pine.
  4. Lone Pine bank owned and operated by the Watterson's
  5. The Dow Villa one of the first hotels
  6. Lone Pine Olivas Pack Station located on Whitney Portal Road
  7. Early photo of Lone Pine covered in snow 1880's
  8. Lone Pine Owens Lake before the L.A. aqueduct draining.
  9. Glass Factory on the shore of the Owens Lake
  10. Early street scene Lone Pine 1890's
  11. Lone Pine early 1900's
  12. El Camino Sierra now 395 from Los Angeles to Lone Pine. 1916
  13. Lone Pine Catholic Church on Main Street
  14. The Lone Pine railroad station
  15. Add for the Lone Pine railroad
  16. Lone Pine cowboy bar
  17. Lone Pine train with Japanese from Los Angeles to Manzanar. World War II
  18. Early Tom Mix movie in Lone Pine's Alabama Hills
  19. Lone Pine Main Street mid 20's
  20. Street scene
  21. Street scene
  22. Main Street 1940's
  23. Bakery on Main Street
  24. Main Street drug store
  25. Lone Pine High School photo by Ansel Adams. from the valley floor to Mt Whitney.
  26. Main Street
  27. Main Street drug store
  28. Main Street bank
  29. Dow Villa in winter
  30. Early post card
  31. Early post card
  32. Early movie still from Tom Mix movie Just Tony. Shows how wide the Owens River was when it flowed into the now dry Owens Lake. Tom Mix is in the water and his horse Tony is standing near the far bank of the river.
  33. Just Tony movie still.
  34. Main Street 1960's
  35. Main Street 1950's
  36. Main Street 1960's
  37. Lone Pine Stampede program's
  38. Whitney Portal road 1960's
  39. The Alabama Hills movie making heaven. Lone Pine Calif.
  40. Main Street Lone Pine 1950's
  41. The Alabama Hills Lone Pine Calif.
  42. Film crew in the Alabama Hills
  43. How The West Was Won. Alabama Hills Lone Pine
  44. Owens Valley Lone Pine railroad
  45. Lone Pine Bad Day At Black Rock
  46. Train running through Lone Pine
  47. Painting by Albert Bierstadt of the Owens Lake
  48. The Owens Lake after the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

Dates

  • Creation: 1880 - 1970
  • Modified: 2010 - 2014

Conditions Governing Access

Advance notice required for access. The digital image files described under this finding aid consist of digital computer files preserved in the USC Digital Repository. The files are not publicly accessible online. Researchers wishing to request access should email specol@usc.edu.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Extent

0.02 Linear Feet (1 pamphlet binder)

48 Megabytes (48 digital image files)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

A collection of forty-eight digital image files stored on a compact disc, along with a printed inventory describing each image. The images show the town and surrounding area of Lone Pine, California, including images of the Owens Valley and Owens River. The digital images in this collection are digital surrogates of original photographs. The collection does not hold the original photographs, which are dated between 1880 and 1970. The image files are titled with numbers that correspond to the numbers and descriptions on the printed inventory. The image files' "date created" and "date modified" dates range from 2010 to 2014.

Existence and Location of Copies

Bo Doub, Accessioning Archivist, copied the digital images from the compact disc to the USC Digital Repository on March 29, 2022.

Title
Finding aid for the Lone Pine digital images and inventory
Status
Completed
Author
Bo Doub
Date
2022 March
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States