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Title
A.F. Harmer's painting "Giving Him a Lift" showing two vacqueros aiding a covered wagon, ca.1906
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1906
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.F. Harmer's painting "Giving Him a Lift" showing two vacqueros aiding a covered wagon, ca.1906. Two men on horseback are shown to the right of center, and have hitched themselves to the covered wagon to the left, pulling it up the slope. Behind them, the women and children of a family can be seen in the wagon while an older man stands to its side. A mountain ridge is visible in the background.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m10054
USC-1-1-1-10194 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-8541
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10054
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-8541.jpg
Subject
Californios--Illustrations
Harmer, A. F
Mexican Americans
Coaching
Cowboys
Mountains
Time Period
circa 1906
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
8541 [Accession number]
CHS-8541 [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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