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Title
Captain Luis Torres of the Coahuilla Indians standing beside a mesquite granary at Torres, east of Palm Springs, ca.1903
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1903
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 Captain Luis Torres of the Coahuilla Indians standing beside a mesquite granary at Torres, east of Palm Springs, ca.1903. He is wearing bib overalls, a long-sleeve shirt and a hat. His left hand rests on the cylindrical woven granary which sits atop a rough wooden platform. Scrub brush and low trees are visible behind him.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, b&w
20 x 25 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10225
USC-1-1-1-13920 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2301
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10225
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2301.jpg
Subject
Cahuilla Indians
Indians of North America
Water-supply
Missions, Spanish
Indians--Mission--Cahuilla
Mission Indians
Indians
Coahuilla, Mission Indians--Palm Springs
Time Period
circa 1903
Place
California
Riverside
Torres
Palm Springs
USA
Source
2301 [Accession number]
CHS-2301 [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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