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Title
Mountain Home of John Brown's Sons
Creator
Rogers, F. H
Contributor
SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued
[188-]
Publication Information
L[os] A[ngeles], Cal'a. : F.H. Rogers, Photo
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description
2002-0475.
Text on front (left): "Las Casitas Views."
View of simple plank board house built by Owen and Jason Brown (sons of abolitionist John Brown of Harper's Ferry); shows door, window and wood-shake roof; two men with white beards sit on two donkeys next to shack-like house; boxes and barrels at right; barren ground in foreground, semi-barren hill in background. Chinese man in traditional clothing; chickens and cows in background.
Also have negative: no. 6352 (4 x 5 in.)
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photograph : boudoir card, print ; 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001384242CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-7512
Language
English
Subject
Brown, Jason,, 1823-1912--Homes and haunts--California--Los Angeles County--Photographs
Brown, Jason,, 1823-1912--Photographs
Brown, Owen,, 1824-1889--Photographs
Brown, Owen,, 1824-1889--Homes and haunts--California--Los Angeles County--Photographs
Chinese Americans--California--Los Angeles County--Photographs
Houses--California--Los Angeles County
Donkeys--California--Los Angeles County
Pasadena (Calif.)--Biography--Photographs
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)--Photographs
Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Photographs
Group portraits
Photographic prints
Boudoir card photographs
Place
California
Los Angeles County
Pasadena (Calif.)
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Los Angeles County (Calif.)

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