The Morongo Basin Historical Society’s second Wednesday lecture series will focus on a local postcard photographer whose images captured a dynamic period in history. With more details, here’s Rebecca Havely…
Join the Morongo Basin Historical Society for a lecture entitled, “Grandfather Burton Frasher Photographer-1907 Through the Decades” at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum in Yucca Valley. Burton Frasher combined a passion for automobile travel and photography into a postcard business, popular with motoring tourists of the 1930s and 40s. His grandson Christopher Frasher, owner of Frasher’s Photography Studio, will present tales of “The Postcard King of The West.” The lecture, held at the Hi- Desert Nature Museum, will take place on Wednesday, May 8, at 5:30 p.m. for a $5 donation.