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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photographic portrait of Cave Johnson Couts of Guajome Ranch, taken upon his graduation from West Point, 1843. Couts is shown from his waist to his head and is looking straight ahead. He is wearing a military uniform complete with epaulets and a thick tie, as well as a kepi with a star insignia. He has wavy dark hair that extends past his ears and a long, youthful face. He is holding a braided whip in his hand. This is a copy of a daguerreotype. Photoprint reads: "from Guajome Ranch, San Diego, adobe file with note: 'These pictures of the Guajome Ranch presented to Collection by Mrs. Arcodia Bandini Brennen'".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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