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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Mertie Whitaker sitting in a horse-drawn carriage while taking a trip to San Gabriel. A dirt road spans the width of the foreground and passes through the image on an upward angle from left to right. The carriage is stopped in the middle of the road at center. It is viewed from the rear and the side, facing back towards the right. Mertie Whitaker sits in the carriage seat with her back to the camera. Ahead of her at right, a horse is hitched to the front of the carriage and faces towards the back of the image. The surrounding countryside sprawls across the background. Text from negative sleeve: 1706. San Gabriel, California. Xxxxx xxxxx.xx March 10, 1901. I take Mertie Whitaker for a buggy ride out to San Gabriel Mission. 1. The old Mission steps. 2. Mertie Whitaker in the buggy. 3. Some of the cactus beds out there at that time. Buggy on other side with Mertie Whitaker in it. 3 films.
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_1706_003 ark:/21198/zz002htvwk
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Carriages & coaches--American--California--San Gabriel Horses--California--San Gabriel West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972
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