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Title: Photograph of boating on the Feather River
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: ca. 1920's
Publication Information: Sutter County Library
Contributing Institution: Sutter County Library
Collection: Sutter County local history photograph collection
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: View of the Feather River with women and children sitting on the bank watching the boaters; in 1820 the name Feather River originally was called El Rio de las Plumas (the river of the feathers) because of the feathers of wild fowl floating on the water
Type: image
Format: 1 black & white photograph; 8 x 10 inches
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0r29q6nk
cyccl_018
979.434
Language: English
Subject: Feather River (Calif.)--photograph
Outdoor recreation--California--Yuba City
Outdoor recreation--California--Marysville
Sutter County (Calif.)--photographs
Yuba City (Calif.)--photographs
Rivers--California, Northern
Women--clothing & dress
Boating on Feather River
Place: Sutter County (Calif.)

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