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Title: Wild Horses on the Painted Desert
Creator: Monsen, Frederick, 1865-1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1886
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A herd of horses standing beside a large rock formation.
Title transcribed from item. Signed on mount: "Frederick Monsen." Monsen's typed label on back says: "Wild Horses on the Painted Desert. The Spaniards brought the first horses to the Southwest, many escaping from their owners. These free horses, breeding rapidly, soon became numerous throughout the deserts of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico."
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : black and white print ; 31.5 x 44 cm
Identifier: photCL 312
414430
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/7044
Subject: Wild horses--Arizona
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Painted Desert (Ariz.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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