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Title
Portrait of stagecoach driver, Henry Hodges, standing beside his old stagecoach, ca.1874-1890
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1874/1890
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
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 portrait of stagecoach driver, Henry Hodges (or Hedges), standing beside his old stagecoach, ca.1874-1890. He is wearing a linen duster and yellow gloves which were part of the typical driver's attire. He is wearing glasses and a hat with a broad rim. His left hand rests on the side of the stagecoach. Sitting on the box of the stage is John Wilson, a pioneer Indian resident of Yosemite Valley. Hodges drove the first stagecoach in Yosemite Valley, July 1874.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm., 21 x 16 cm.
portraits
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m15644
USC-1-1-1-13864 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2919
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15644
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2919.jpg
Subject
Coach drivers
Hodges, Henry
Transportation
Transportation, Stages
Portraits--Ho
Time Period
circa 1874/1890
Place
California
USA
Source
1-155-; 1-90-272 [Microfiche number]
2919 [Accession number]
CHS-2919 [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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