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Title: Postcard, Discovery of the Mississippi River by De Soto
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1908-1913
Publication Information: Ella Strong Denison Library; Claremont Colleges Digital Library
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Bessie Bartlett Frankel Collection of Travel and Early Los Angeles Music
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions, please contact Ella Strong Denison Library at http://www.scrippscollege.edu/denison/.
Description: Title taken from image.Illustrated variation of a painting by William Henry Powell, featuring Hernando De Soto; the original work, commissioned by Congress, is located in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building. Uncirculated, colorized, with divided back.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: bbf00428.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll2/id/525
Language: English
Subject: Postcards--1900-1920
Postcards--United States
Rivers--United States
Doctrine of Discovery
Government facilities
United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Powell, William Henry, 1823–1879
Place: Washington (D.C.)
Source: Bessie Bartlett Frankel Collection, Box 6, Folder 36
Relation: Bessie Bartlett Frankel Collection of Travel and Early Los Angeles Music - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll2

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