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Description
Photograph of a drawing by Vischer depicting frontiersmen and Indians at the first overland stage route between San Diego and Fort Yuma, Temecula, ca.1865-1871. Two cowboys are shown at center, one of them leaning on their horse, which is pictured between them. Farther left, two Native Americans sit by a rock, talking with the cowboys. In the background, more cowboys can be seen on their horses, talking to a man on foot. To the left, a Native American family looks on at the scene, standing in front of a one-story adobe house with a thatched roof. Enlarged from CHS-2999. Depicts the home of Alesandro from the book, Ramona, by Helen Hunt Jackson. Photoprint reads: "Southern California Traffic. A Scene of Frontier Life".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 16 x 22 cm. transparencies photographic prints photographs drawings
Alesandro Art--Vischer, Edward Indians--Ramona--Subjects Indians of North America Coaching Roads Horses Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 Populated places
Time Period
circa 1865/1871
Place
California San Diego County Temecula USA
Source
1-188-; 1-189- [Microfiche number] 2999; 9551 [Accession number] CHS-2999; CHS-9551 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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