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truckload for Death Valley trip
Students getting ready to depart for Death Valley, fairly cold weather but perhaps warmer down there
Deep Springs Christmas cards
Two Christmas cards with Deep Springs snowy photos
Deep Springs Valley and airstrip
View of the Valley from the Druid (just visible at right edge), unknown student in foreground. The airstrip is a very prominent T shape.
Willow Springs Last Chance
Willow Springs is a water stop in the Last Chance Range used perennially by students trekking to Death Valley, on foot or horseback. This would be its appearance in the 1940s.
Merritt Holloway plowing garden (2 images)
Merritt Holloway was the hired cowboy in the late 1940s as well as Ranch Manager through most of the 1970s. Two images, one of Merritt alone, the other showing unknown student driving tractor
Memoirs of Harry Ludwig Thomsen, as told to family members (3 PDF documents)
Harry Thomsen was DS27 (stayed 1 year) and also spent time as a child in 1918-1919, when his father, Ludwig, taught there. Three files, a - Chapter 3, DS 1918-1919, b - Chapter 8, DS 1927-1928, c - entire memoir. An interesting, productive life as a…
Frank Noon memoir
Apparently a speech by Frank Noon, long-time associate of LL Nunn
Letters to and from Frank Noon, detailing the circumstances of LL Nunn's death
A letter from Dr. F. A. Harper to Frank Noon, and a reply detailing the final days and death of LL Nunn
Moving cattle off the Circle
Jeff Boyd DS69, Phil Shaw DS71, and Mike Quinn DS70 move some cattle off the lawn
Sprinklers with ice
Apparently a wheel line was left running as the temperature droppped