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Title
Pack train to Wilson Peak, Sierra Madre Trail, ca.1900
Creator
James, George Wharton
Date Created and/or Issued
1895/1905
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 pack train to Wilson Peak, Sierra Madre Trail, ca.1900. A line of more than a dozen burros carry people and bundles of gear along a narrow ledge across the brush-covered steep rocky slope of the mountain.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m17030
USC-1-1-1-14244 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-4718
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17030
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-4718.jpg
Subject
Mountains
Natural features--Mountains--Mount Wilson
Time Period
1895/1905
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
mountains: Mount Wilson
Source
1-84-24 [Microfiche number]
4718 [Accession number]
CHS-4718 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: James-901 [Identifying number]
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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