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Title
Four Chinese field hands standing near a building, ca.1898
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1898
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 four Chinese field hands standing near a building, ca.1898. The three men on the left are standing, while the one on the right is sitting on a bag of flour(?). The three on the right have Chinese-style straw hats, while the one sitting has a Western hat. All of the men are barefoot and are wearing traditional Chinese clothes. There is a stack of full bags behind them, as well as a wooden structure.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10263
USC-1-1-1-10408 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-9893
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10263
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-9893.jpg
Subject
Chinese Americans
Costume
Agriculture
Minorities--Chinese
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1898
Place
California
USA
Source
1-230- [Microfiche number]
9893 [Accession number]
CHS-9893 [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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