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Title: Ferry on Colorado, Needles
Creator: Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Contributor: Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1910?
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana
Rights Information: Public domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description: Real photo postcard of an African American man with a cart full of discarded cloth. The man stands on a ferry boat on the Colorado River at Needles, California. The ragpicker's cart is pulled by three horses. Two other men stand on shore.
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
Still image
Title from caption in negative.
[Needles, Calif.]
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; 9 x 14 cm (postcard format)
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb0895918p
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Photographs
African Americans
Ragpickers
Ferries
Colorado River (North America)
Needles (Calif.)
Place: Colorado River (North America)
Needles (Calif.)

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