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
Photograph of a narrow, hand-drawn map of the lower Colorado River between Arizona and California, showing also a portion of Mexico, 1850. The Mojave Indian Reservation is included. Two joined photographs show the river from the Mojave Indian school at top to San Jorge Island in the Gulf of California at bottom (left image) as well as a close-up of the same map but from Needles near the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad at top to the Algodones Mexican Custom House just south of the Mexican border at bottom (right image). Statement of responsibility at top reads "S[?] Adams Agents, [...]oneo B. Smith concessionaire, 206 Henne Building, Los Angeles, California".
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w 22 x 17 cm., 26 x 21 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs maps
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