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Title
Gamblers playing roulette in a tent, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1905
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 about twenty gamblers playing roulette in a tent, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905. They are grouped about a table with a cloth spread over it. On the cloth are the acoutrements of the game. Some of the people are onlookers and include children. Some are sitting, most are standing. They wear a variety of types of hats.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
20 x 13 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m14578
USC-1-1-1-14140 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-681
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14578
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-681.jpg
Subject
Gambling
Mexico--General
Housing areas
Time Period
circa 1905
Place
Mexico City
Mexico
Source
1-224- [Microfiche number]
681 [Accession number]
CHS-681 [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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