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Title: Christopher "Kit" Carson, a portrait
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: also known as "Kit" Carson.
Portrait of Christopher "Kit" Carson, hunter and trapper; one of a band of intrepid men who first explored the Rocky Mountain region. He was guide to Gen. John C. Fremont in his various expeditions. The story of his life is more thrilling than most tales of fiction. He died in 1868.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00040898
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Portraits-Carson, Christopher ("Kit").; A-003-215 4x5
CARL0000044583
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/100632
Subject: Carson, Kit,--1809-1868
Hunters--California--Los Angeles
Ingersoll, Luther A

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