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 a family of 4 (woman, 2 men, child) standing beside the adobe(?) wall of the stage station on the Butterfield Line at McPherson(?) near the Gila River, 48-49 miles east of Yuma, Arizona, ca.1916. The station was built in 1856. One of the men leans on a rifle. A window is visible behind the group. Three poles hold up a thatched canopy offering protection from the elements at right.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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