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Title
Two ostriches at the Cawston Ostrich Farm, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of two ostriches at the Cawston Ostrich Farm, ca.1900. One ostrich stands at center with the neck curved down and the head drooped low. The second ostrich stands just to the left of the first with darker plumage and the neck and head extended high. Rocks are scattered on the ground beneath them and the two are contained by the wooden fence behind them.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
20 x 13 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9578
USC-1-1-1-9717 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40132
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9578
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40132.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Ranching--Livestock--Ostriches
Cawston Ostrich Farm
Ostrich farms and farming
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-85-21 [Microfiche number]
40132 [Accession number]
CHS-40132 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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