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Title
"A desert tragedy", the skeletal remains of a horse and buggy in the desert, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 desert tragedy", the skeletal the remains of a horse and buggy in the desert, ca.1900. The remains are surrounded by a low grassy plain that extends for many miles. All that remain are part of the wooden frame of the wagon with no wheels, and a white skeleton of a horse laying where it was once hitched to the wagon.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
20 x 25 cm., 17 x 22 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11776
USC-1-1-1-11927
USC-1-1-1-14225
USC-1-1-1-8170 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-4670
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11776
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-4670.jpg
Subject
Riverside County--General
Natural features--Deserts
Transportation--Draft--General
Skeleton
Wagons
Deserts
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Source
1-156-; 1-81-51 [Microfiche number]
4670 [Accession number]
CHS-4670 [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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