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Description
Photograph of a well dug by the Coahuilla Indians at Martinez-Torres on the Colorado Desert, 1903. A man wearing a hat stands in the bottom of the well. Five wood fenceposts(?) stick up out of the ground near the opening of the well. Trees are visible in the background. Photoprint reads: "Dug probably about 1828". "...Mr. Pierce writes: 'I ran across it at Torres, east of Palm Springs in 1903. The approach down the steps was 20 feet below the top and the water stood 50 feet below that. I was told by Captain Torres that it was dug by his people, the Coahuillas, about 75 years before (about 1828).'" -- The Masterkey, July 1939.
Type
image
Format
5 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, b&w 13 x 10 cm., 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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