The back porch of the Bottle House. Bottles were free and many of them. Other building materials were scarce. There were about 30 or more Saloons in Rhyolite; the back porch of the Bottle House.

A black and white photograph showing three people outside a structure with walls made in part of stacked glass bottles or jars. On the left, a person in work clothes and a cap holds papers. In the center, a person stands in a doorway wearing a light-colored shirt and hat. On the right, a person sits on wooden steps wearing work clothes and holding tools. The bottle wall construction creates a distinctive geometric pattern of circular shapes across the entire surface.

Title

Full Collection Name

Death Valley Automobile Trip, 1926

Other Identifiers

BANC PIC 1978.027:57--ALB

Type

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The Bancroft Library

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Collection

Death Valley Automobile Trip

Source of Description

Image description generated by AI (Claude Haiku 4.5) and reviewed on 09/2026.