Image / Butterfield Stage Route, Colorado Desert, California, 1889

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Title: Butterfield Stage Route, Colorado Desert, California, 1889
Creator: Monsen, Frederick, 1865-1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1886
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A covered wagon pulled by three burros, with two men inside. A portion of a camp tent can be seen at right.
Title transcribed from item. Signed on mount: "Frederick Monsen." Monsen's typed label on back says: "Butterfield Stage Route. Colorado Desert, California. Photo made in 1889 of outfit traveling from Arkansas to California and traveling over the old Butterfield stage road. It took them nearly six months to make the journey." Same image as (369), which is dated 1895 and says location is Mojave.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : black and white print ; 32.5 x 42 cm
Identifier: photCL 312
414566
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7158
Subject: Stagecoach lines
Frontier and pioneer life--California
Covered wagons
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Colorado Desert (Calif. and Mexico)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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