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Death Valley National Park

George Grant photographed in Death Valley in 1935. A number of images documented work by the CCC in the park
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Part of the Park Service residences area in Death Valley. Arbor in the foreground is for greenhouses, Death Valley National Park, 1935.
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Part of the Park Service residences area in Death Valley. Arbor in the foreground is for greenhouses, Death Valley National Park, 1935.

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  • CCC Camp "Funeral Range", Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • CCC enrollees building a park road, Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • Fossils found in Death Valley region, Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • Another view of sand dunes near Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • CCC enrollee staffing the park check-in station near Furnace Creek Wash, Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • Texas Springs public automobile campground showing outline of Furnace Creek Ranch in center of the valley, Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • Terrain near Badwater with Telescope Peak in the distance, Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • Landscape on the road to Badwater, Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • Devil's Golf Course on floor of Death Valley. Taken near Salt Pools with Black Mountains in the distance, Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • Erosion in tertiary formation from Zabriske Point, Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • Furnace Creek Inn at the mouth of Furnace Creek Wash, Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • Part of the Park Service residences area in Death Valley. Arbor in the foreground is for greenhouses, Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • Above the entrance to Artist's Drive. One gets many reverse views into Death Valley and the Panamints. In the foreground are seen the highly colored tertiary beds that lie along the lower slopes of the Black Mountains. Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • The Devil's Golf Course on the floor of Death Valley. Taken near the Salt Pools. Black Mountains in the distance. Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • George Grant at Badwater, Death Valley National Park, 1935. Photograph by John Bryan.
  • "Sunrise Near Stovepipe Wells", photograph by George Grant, Death Valley National Park, 1935. This photograph won first place in the inaugural New York Explorers Club Photography Competition in 1937.
  • A view toward Death Valley from Zabriske Point, Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • Old charcoal kilns near Thorndyke, high up Wildrose Canyon, Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • Two of the original Twenty Mule Team Borax wagons on display at the Furnace Creek Inn. Death Valley National Park, 1935.
  • Old steam tractor for hauling borax, Death Valley National Park, 1935.
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