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Title
Salton Sea view of Superstition Mountain and Indian dwellings, ca.1900
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 two Indian mud wigwams on Superstition Mountain in the Colorado Desert south of the Salton Sea, ca.1900. Dimples can be seen in the smooth sand across the foreground. Small plants spot the lightly-colored ground further back while relatively sedimentary rock structures stand across the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m8133
USC-1-1-1-8264 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-1964
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8133
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-1964.jpg
Subject
Riverside County--Salton Sea
Views
Indians of North America
Mountains
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Palm Springs
Riverside
Imperial
USA
Source
1-36- [Microfiche number]
1964 [Accession number]
CHS-1964 [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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