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Title
Portrait of Fig Tree John near Palm Springs, ca.1897
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1897
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
Photographic portrait of Fig Tree John near Palm Springs, ca.1897. The Cahuillla Indian is shown from his knees to his head and is looking towards the camera. He is wearing a dark suit with a dark vest, white shirt, and dark tie. He has a black top hat on his head. There is a white package under his arm at left and he is holding another unidentified object at right. He is standing in front of a wooden building. Fig Tree John later moved to Aqua Dolce.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m19771 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11465
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19771
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11465.jpg
Subject
Fig Tree John
Men
Indians of North America
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1897
Place
California
Palm Springs
Riverside
USA
Source
1-172- [Microfiche number]
11465 [Accession number]
CHS-11465 [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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