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Title
An orchard of date palms being irrigated, Indio (Palm Springs?), California, ca.1890
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1890
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 an orchard of date palms being irrigated, Indio (Palm Springs?), California, ca.1890. Rows of palms line the plowed field. Long pieces of wood form a square box around the tree at about midway up for the visible trees in the foreground.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m7921
USC-1-1-1-8048 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-8313
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7921
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-8313.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Crops--Dates
Riverside County--General--Agriculture
Views
Orchards
Date
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1890
Place
California
Indio
Riverside
USA
Source
1-83-80; 1-36- [Microfiche number]
8313 [Accession number]
CHS-8313 [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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