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 view of a Cahuilla Indian graveyard showing Ramona at Alessandro's grave, ca.1900. The cemetery is full of small wooden grave markers in the shape of crosses. A handful of graves are surrounded by wooden picket fences. There are several mourners visible, including a woman bending over in the foreground and a man sitting on a rock at right. There is a large rock formation in the background at left. Ramon and Alessandro were Cahuilla Indians upon whom Helen Hunt Jackson based her book Ramona.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 13 x 18 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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