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Title
Mexican family at home, California, ca.1880
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1880
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 Mexican family at home, California, ca.1880. Grouping of seven family members and an infant (photo bleached out there), standing by the doorways of their adobe. All the females wear shawls or rebosos, and one for the girls holds a clothed doll. The man wears a large hat, holds a cane in his left hand and a rifle in his right, with a cartridge belt around his waist over his jacket. He has a moustache.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, b&w
13 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10192
USC-1-1-1-10334
USC-1-1-1-10186 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-104
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10192
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-104.jpg
Subject
Californios
Mexicans
Mexican Americans
Family
Clothing and dress
Arms and armor
Toys
Adobe houses
Residential sites
Time Period
circa 1880
Place
California
USA
Source
CHS-104 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 104 [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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