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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photographic portrait of ninety year-old Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, 1891. He is pictured from his knees to his head and is standing with his arm resting on the back of a chair at left. His other hand is on an ivory cane at right. He is wearing a dark suit with a dark vest decorated with diamond buttons. He has a thick white beard and mustache, and his white hair is thinning. His light skin blends in with his facial hair. Picture file card reads "Pierce seems to have acquired the negative or print from Thomas Temple, son of Walter Temple".
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w 13 x 10 cm., 18 x 13 cm., 26 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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