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Title
Portrait of a woman named Cameron holding a Chinese baby, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 portrait of a woman named Cameron holding a Chinese baby, ca.1900. A woman wearing a dress and hat can be seen sitting in a chair looking towards the left. The woman is holding a baby on the right side of her lap. The baby is visible wearing a cap and a one-piece outfit that completely covers his hands and feet, while a brick wall can be seen at right. Cameron rescued kidnapped women forced to be prostitutes.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
25 x 15 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10283
USC-1-1-1-10428 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-46212
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10283
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-46212.jpg
Subject
Cameron
Chinese Americans
Children
Prostitutes
Minorities--Chinese
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
46212 [Accession number]
CHS-46212 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
isla id: R179.tif [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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