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Title
Group of Pima Indian farmers building a dam for irrigation, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of group of about ten Pima Indian farmers building a dam for irrigation, ca.1900. Most of them are bent over shovels as they dig near the standing water in the field. Others, at right, work with axes to remove twigs and branches from small logs to be used in the dam.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16223
USC-1-1-1-13956 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3609
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16223
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3609.jpg
Subject
Indians--Pima
Indians of North America
Pima Indians
Men
Farmers
Irrigation
Tribal areas
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
USA
Source
1-175- [Microfiche number]
3609 [Accession number]
CHS-3609 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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