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 an olive mill at Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, ca.1900. The olive mill can be seen in the foreground at right, showing a grinding stone and central wooden post about which the stone rolled on a stone base. In the background are the ruined walls of the mission. A pepper tree can be seen in front of the mission at left. "...Erected in 1880 by Don Ramon Yorba. Granite mill stone brought from old mission mill at La Mission Vieja. Basalt stone given to Padre Mut by Indians of Pala." -- A. Yorba
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 17 x 22 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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