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Title
Little girl holding baby ostriches at the Cawston Ostrich Farm, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
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 little girl holding baby ostriches at the Cawston Ostrich Farm, ca.1900. The little girl can be seen in a lightly-colored dress and bonnet sitting on a short bench at center with a baby ostrich in her lap. Seven other baby ostriches surround her with leaves scattered at their feet. Several large eggs as well as a few smaller eggs can be seen on the ground around them while a field sits in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9595
USC-1-1-1-9734 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40138
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9595
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40138.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Ranching--Livestock--Ostriches
Cawston Ostrich Farm
Ostrich farms and farming
Hatcheries--Ostriches
Children
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-85-15 [Microfiche number]
40138 [Accession number]
CHS-40138 [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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