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Title
Outdoor screened bedroom at Fort Yuma, ca.1890
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1890
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 an adobe building and outdoor screened bedroom at Fort Yuma, ca.1890. Three beds are visible through the screen of the cage-like room at left. A roof supported by posts runs around the perimeter of the boxy adobe building at right. A short post sticks out the the ground near a pile of stones in the left foreground. In the background scattered houses and a railroad trestle (at left) are visible. A mountain range rises in the distance.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m7550
USC-1-1-1-7677
USC-1-1-1-14010 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3519
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7550
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3519.jpg
Subject
Bedrooms
Architecture
Adobe houses
Porches
Indians of North America
Yuma Indians
Dwellings
Indians--Yuma
Arizona--Yuma
Housing areas
Time Period
circa 1890
Place
Arizona
California
Fort Yuma
Imperial
USA
Source
1-81-39 [Microfiche number]
3519 [Accession number]
CHS-3519 [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
USC
chs-m265

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