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Description
Photograph of Ramona kneeling in sorrow at the grave of Alesandro in the cemetery on the Coahuilla Indian Reservation, ca.1905. Her forehead rests in her hands as she grieves. A wooden cross marks the grave. Other wooden cross grave markers are visible throughout the cemetery. Some of the grave sites are enclosed in small rectangular picket fences. Ramona was made famous in the novel of the same name by Helen Hunt Jackson.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w 22 x 17 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
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