Image / Nathaniel Smith, pioneer and stagecoach driver in Mendocino County, circa 1880-1900

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Title: Nathaniel Smith, pioneer and stagecoach driver in Mendocino County, circa 1880-1900
Alternative Title: Stagecoach Drivers and Pony Express Riders
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1880-1900]
1880/1900
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Studio portrait of Nathaniel Smith, a Mendocino County pioneer who drove a stagecoach. He is seated on a wooden stool in front of a landscape backdrop.
Nathaniel Smith was a free black man from Maryland who purchased (together with his partner Francisco Faria) a tract of a Mexican land grant which extended from the north bank of the Garcia River to the south bank of the Rio Grande (Big River) in Mendocino County.
Photo label: Smith, Nathaniel (Mendocino Co. pioneer). Staging in the Mendocino Redwoods (see Overland Monthly Sept. 1891, p. 270, v. 20 #117). Credit Calif. Historical Society, S. F. Secured from James Abajian.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b01_f06_002a.tif
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Subject: Coach drivers
Pioneers
Smith, Nathaniel, d. 1906
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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