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Title
Two twenty-mule teams on Lancaster's Main Street, later Sierra Highway, ca.1900-1909
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900/1909
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 two twenty-mule teams on Lancaster's Main Street, later Sierra Highway, ca.1900-1909. The mule teams are lined up on a dirt road in the foreground, facing to the left. A line of small, single-story wooden buildings runs parallel to the mules in the background. There are several tall trees visible, and the cupola of a tall building is visible in the distance at left.
Legible signs include, from left to right, "Antelope Valley Ledger Real Estate", and "Harry Davis General Blacksmith".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5346
USC-0-1-1-5459 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-14256
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5346
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-14256.jpg
Subject
Antelope Valley Ledger
Harry Davis General Blacksmith
Los Angeles County--Antelope Valley
Views
Stores, Retail
Horses
Newspapers
Blacksmiths
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1900/1909
Place
California
Lancaster
Los Angeles
Sierra Highway
USA
Source
1-158- [Microfiche number]
14256 [Accession number]
CHS-14256 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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