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Title
Mexican worker of carved leather in his shop, ca.1905
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1905
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 Mexican man who works with carved leather, ca.1905. He is sitting in his shop at a workbench near a window. On the table are numerous tooled leather parts. He his holding one up in his right hand. He has a dark moustache and a high forehead. He is wearing a shirt, vest, long tie, and sleeve protectors. Various tooled leatherware (purses, belts, etc.) is displayed on the wall behind him.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12348
USC-1-1-1-14140 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-1483
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12348
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-1483.jpg
Subject
Handicraft
Men
Mexico--General
Time Period
circa 1905
Place
Mexico
Source
1-224- [Microfiche number]
1483 [Accession number]
CHS-1483 [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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