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Title: Standing guard over flock
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated January 19, 1955 reads, "Equipped with a tin-can gadget to control sheep, Thomas Dennis and sheep dog stand guard over large flock along Ridge Route near Castaic Junction as rain falls. Irish-born Dennis, laughed at storm, called it old stuff. Dog doesn't seem to mind weather either."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00118112
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d021_f25_i26
CARL0005370656
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/51766
Subject: Men--California--Ridge Route
Shepherds--California--Ridge Route
Dogs--California--Ridge Route
Sheep--California--Ridge Route
Livestock--California--Ridge Route
Grazing--California--Ridge Route
Grasses--California--Ridge Route
Pastures--California--Ridge Route
Hats--California--Ridge Route
Raincoats--California--Ridge Route
Tin cans--California--Ridge Route
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Mountains--California, Southern
Ridge Route (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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