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| View Original: | Mural at Amargosa Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely a ghost town- Death Valley Junction, just outside Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California LCCN2013631057.tif.tiff (7360x4912) | |||
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| Keywords: Mural at Amargosa Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely a ghost town- Death Valley Junction, just outside Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California LCCN2013631057.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Title date and keywords provided by the photographer ; Credit line The Jon B Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; The community once a dusty mining railroad and mill town was known as Amargosa after the desert valley that surrounds it A recreation hall at the northeast end of the complex eventually become the Amargosa Opera House decorated with elaborate wall illustrations such as this one In July of 1968 Marta Becket an acclaimed New York dancer mime actress and an accomplished painter took charge of what she called the Opera House She performed there regularly through early 2012 after painstakingly painting images of an entire audience on the walls including characters who might have attended an opera the 16th century from royalty to bullfighters monks and nuns and ordinary observers ; Forms part of Jon B Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation in memory of Jon B Lovelace; 2012; DLC/PP-2012 063 2012 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2013631057 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/23800/23879a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 23879 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 23879 36 18 1299 0 N 116 24 8766 0 W alt 629_source exif_heading PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ The Jon B Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Jon B Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||