Mining engineer G. Warren Shufelt with radio X-ray device for underground observations, Los Angeles, 1934 or 1935

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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds., Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Shufelt, G. Warren, 1935, A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, January 29, 1934, Lizard Peolpe’s [sic] Catacomb City Hunted, Engineer Sinks Shaft Under Fort Moore Hill to Find Maze of Tunnels and Priceless Treasures of Legendary Inhabitants. … G. Warren Shufelt, geophysical mining engineer now engaged in an attempt to wrest from the lost city deep in the earth below Fort Moore Hill the secrets of the Lizard People of legendary fame in the medicine lodges of the American Indian. …, George Warren Shufelt, in leather jacket and tie, seated on folding stool, hat near feet, operating cylindrical, tripod-mounted radio X-ray device in search of gold and archaeological finds, on rocky area with houses in background, Handwritten at edge of negative: G. Warren Shufelt 6-11-35