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Description
Photograph of an Indian woman grinding corn on a metal stone while children watch ca.1899. The woman grinds corn at left while six children look on nearby. Four of the children sit against the long, brick building that extends from the let foreground to the right background. A large slab of wood lies in the dust at right. "Mexican patio at town of Capistrano. Northern wing of Hacienda Aguilar. Built 1794. Dona Catalina Godinez de Yorba and family... Grinding corn on metate stone, San Juan Capistrano. Catalina Godinez de Yorba grinding corn in the patio of the Aguilar hacienda. The girl to the left is Feliciana Yorba y Aguilar de Aguilar. The others, left to right are the children of Dona Catalina and her husband Don Jose Antonio Yorba: 2. Augora Yorba de Sepulveda, 2. Gilberto Yorba, 3. Salvador Yorba and the two smaller children whose names I do not know." -- A. Yorba
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, b&w 20 x 25 cm., 17 x 22 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Adobe houses Indians of North America Corn Missions, Spanish Cookery Bernardo Yorba Adobe Yorba, Catalina Yorba, Godinez San Juan Capistrano Mission Orange--Santa Ana Mexico--General Missions--Mission San Juan Capistrano Housing areas
Time Period
circa 1899
Place
California Orange Santa Ana USA
Source
1-33- [Microfiche number] 526 [Accession number] CHS-526 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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