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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a painting (drawing?) depicting the arrival of the Jedediah Smith party at the San Gabriel Mission on November 26, 1826, reprinted from West Ways magazine, ca.1900. Smith, a mountain man, can be seen at center with other members of his party, and is dressed in a leather outfit with a raccoon skin hat and holding a musket. He and another similarly dressed man seem to be conversing with a Mexican priest who is dressed in the attire of a Franciscan. In the lower right corner, an Indian is watching the event from a sitting position, and other Indians are behind the priest, moving baskets, a goat and pots. In the arched doorway of the mission, there is another priest.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs art
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