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Title
Team of fourteen horses pulling wool freighter across the Powder River near the junction of the Yellowstone not far from Miles City, wool shipment in Montana, ca.1892
Creator
Huffman, L.A
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1892
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 a team of fourteen horses pulling wool freighter across the Powder River near the junction of the Yellowstone not far from Miles City, wool shipment in Montana, ca.1892. A team of horses trod through the center of the image as they cross a river at a shallow point while pulling cargo. A man to the right of center sits atop the freight carriage and controls the reins while a hilly terrain is visible in the background.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10765
USC-1-1-1-10915
USC-1-1-1-13446 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7880
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10765
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7880.jpg
Subject
Photographers--Huffman, L.A
Industry--Textile
Photographers
Horses
Wagons
Textile industry
Rivers
Wool trade and industry
Time Period
circa 1892
Place
Montana
USA
Source
7880 [Accession number]
CHS-7880 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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