Interior of Shea's Castle, Mojave Desert, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Interior of Shea's Castle, Mojave Desert, 1935
- Date Created
- March 16, 1935
- Date
- 1935-03-16
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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A piano sits to the right of a built-in shelving unit in a sitting room at Shea's Castle.
Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, “Shea Desert Castle Sold,” Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar 1935: 19.
The massive granite structure, built by R. P. Shea, was sold to three Beverly Hills women in 1935. The "castle" boasts many unique design elements that remain untouched after the purchase.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Mojave Desert (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.6999257
- Latitude
- -118.5398957
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Pianos
Dwellings--California--Mojave Desert
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_6844
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cx4m0
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
-
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
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 .