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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Portrait of La Cholla Martina (Martina Espinoza), who aided the bandelero Juan Flores to kill Sheriff Barton and posse and to assassinate the Jewish merchant Jorge Pffergerdt in San Juan Capistrano in 1857, ca.1907. An elderly woman in a long dress and cloak stands in the foreground, holding a cane with her right hand, with a shawl tied around her bronzed head. Behind her, a two-story home can be seen beyond the unpaved ground.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprint, photonegative, b&w 18 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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