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Title
Shell mountain of prehistoric oysters
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1920
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 "Shell Mountain" -- a prehistoric oyster bed -- near the Mexican border, south of the road from Campo to Imperial Valley, ca. December 1904
or in the Salton Sea, near Palm Springs, Riverside County, ca.1920.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w
8 x 10 in.
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m8123
USC-1-1-1-8254
USC-1-1-1-8946 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2701
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8123
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2701.jpg
Subject
Riverside County--Salton Sea
San Diego County--General
Views
Oysters
Fossils
Time Period
circa 1920
circa 1904-12
Place
California
San Diego
Riverside
USA
valleys: Imperial Valley
Source
1-80-15 [Microfiche number]
2701 [Accession number]
CHS-2701 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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