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Title
Portrait of caddies at a golf course in China, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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
Photographic portrait of caddies at a golf course in China, ca.1900. Two men and a young boy are pictured at center looking straight ahead with golf bags slung over their shoulders. The man to the right is barefoot, and all three stand on a a swath of grass with a dirt path visible to the left. A fourth man is visible in the background, as well as an English-Victorian looking building to the right which may be the clubhouse.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : negative, photographic print, b&w
9 x 10 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m30573
USC-1-1-1-14111 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12256
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30573
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12256.jpg
Subject
China
Golf clubs (Sporting goods)
Golf courses
Chinese
Recreational facilities
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
China
Source
1-222- [Microfiche number]
12256 [Accession number]
CHS-12256; unid-163 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 163 [Identifying number]
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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