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Title
Man sitting near Balanced Rock in the Petrified Forest of Arizona, 1898
Creator
Cole, George, Reverend
Date Created and/or Issued
1898
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 a man holding his hat in his left hand near a group of a petrified tree logs in the Petrified Forest of Arizona. The most prominent one -- Balanced Rock -- sits atop a partially eroded earth mound. The surrounding landscape of small hillocks is dry and cracked.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
13 x 21 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m15498
USC-1-1-1-14226 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2566
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15498
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2566.jpg
Subject
Deserts
Petrified forests--Arizona
Petrified Forest National Park (Ariz.)
Trees, Fossil
Natural features--Parks--Arizona--Petrified Forest
Petrified forests
Time Period
1898
Place
Arizona
USA
petrified forests: Petrified Forest
Source
1-87-9 [Microfiche number]
2566 [Accession number]
CHS-2566 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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