Young girl playing on the ground in front of a patio built as a breezeway on a house in the desert 

Front view of house in desert, ca.1900-1930 

"A desert tragedy", the skeletal remains of a horse and buggy in the desert, ca.1900 

View of desert seen through a hole in cliff, near Phoenix, Arizona, ca.1900-1930 

Four people standing near a salt pool in Death Valley, ca.1900-1950 

Desert growth in unidentified foothills, ca.1900-1940 

Lyon's well in the desert where water was sold, Colorado Desert, ca.1890-1900 

Buildings on an unidentified street in Yermo in the Mojave Desert, ca.1900 

Buzzard's Rock in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, ca.1900-1930 

A desert dwelling in Imperial Valley, California, ca.1900 

Adobe remains and abandoned wagon wheels in the desert, [s.d.] 

Man with leggings standing near a Joshua Tree (Yucca Mohaviensis) in the Mojave Desert, ca.1904 

Calico Mine, Mojave Desert (north of Barstow), ca.1900 

A petrified log forming a tree bridge in the Petrified Forest of Arizona, ca.1900 

View of the desert looking west from the Mojave Mining District, ca.1907 

General view of the Painted Desert from Tohatchi, New Mexico, ca.1900 

Entrance to the patio past the kitchen at Guajome Ranch, ca.1900 

A Navajo Indian man staking his horse to a hole in the desert sand so the horse does not wander off, ca.1900 

Three people on the patio and in the corridor of Mission San Juan Capistrano, ca.1895 

Photographers Dr. George Wharton James, Carl Eytel and Van Buskirk, Colorado Desert, ca.1900