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Title
The Indian girl Ramona, at her home near San Jacinto, Riverside County
Creator
Mand
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 (by Mand or Maud) of an Indian girl as Ramona, at her home near San Jacinto, Riverside County, ca.1895, made famous in the book of the same name by Helen Hunt Jackson. The young woman is wearing a polka-dot blouse and long skirt with apron. Her hair is pulled back in braid. Her arms are crossed on her chest and she is leaning forward slightly as she stands in front of a rough thatched hut behind her.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m15646 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2927
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15646
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2927.jpg
Subject
Indians of North America
Fiction
Books
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885
Ramona
Housing areas
Time Period
circa 1895
Place
California
Riverside
San Jacinto
USA
Source
1-188- [Microfiche number]
2927 [Accession number]
CHS-2927 [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
chs-m265

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