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Description
Photograph of the "Vegetable Woman" and her donkey cart in front of an adobe building, ca.1885. She is sitting in the cart partially obscured by a large barrel. Two men, on either side of a streetlight, stand in front of the building with a pitched tile roof. Another man sits on one of several barrels at left. Three wheelbarrows stand nearby. There are bills posted on the wall at right. Legible writing includes: "Ayers pills", "Ayers sarsparilla[?]".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 15 x 20 cm., 16 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Adobe houses Architecture, Domestic Carriages and Carts Costume, Spanish Donkeys Grocery Trade Street-lighting Santa Barbara County--General views Transportation features
Time Period
circa 1885
Place
California Santa Barbara USA
Source
1-210- [Microfiche number] 4760 [Accession number] CHS-4760 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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