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
Photograph of Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, ca.1935. A rugged, brush-covered hill is visible in the foreground at center. In the background three iron crosses are visible that were constructed from gaslamp posts from San Francisco and erected in 1929. The posts bear the date "1862". At center, a grave is pictured bearing the name "M.L. Peet 1851-1888". Of the several hundred graves, this is the only one marked with a name.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 10 x 13 cm., 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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