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Title
China Ranch, south end of Death Valley, California, ca.1895
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1895
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 a view from above China Ranch on Amargosa Creek near Shoshone or Tecopa, at the south end of Death Valley, California, ca.1895. The few buildings of the ranch and a wooden post and rail fence are in the foreground. Large piles of hay[?] are at right in the foreground. A few head of livestock are grazing in the field beyond a copse of trees near the ranch buildings. The mountains rise in the background.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m15141
USC-1-1-1-14249 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-1653
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15141
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-1653.jpg
Subject
Natural features--Parks--Death Valley
Parks
Deserts
Mountains
Canyons
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1895
Place
California
USA
agricultural sites: China Ranch
deserts: Death Valley
Source
1-21- [Microfiche number]
1653 [Accession number]
CHS-1653 [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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