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Title
Three men travelling across the Colorado Desert in a mule-drawn wagon, ca.1903
Creator
Eytel, Carl
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1903
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 three men sitting in a 2-mule-team-drawn wagon travelling across the Colorado Desert, ca.1903. The men include Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. in rear and artist Carl Eytel in the dark shirt and sombrero. Scrub brush and scrub grass are the predominant vegetation. Photoprint reads: "Mewls".
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photoprints, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m8137
USC-1-1-1-8268
USC-1-1-1-13770 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2307
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8137
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2307.jpg
Subject
Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr
Eytel, Carl
Butterworth Stage Line
Riverside County--General--Desert views
Portraits--F
Wells
Indians of North America
Deserts
Time Period
circa 1903
Place
California
Palm Springs
Riverside
USA
Source
1-81-70 [Microfiche number]
2307 [Accession number]
CHS-2307 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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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