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Title
Prickly pear cactus. [Opuncia Vulgaris]
Creator
Payne, Stanton & Co
Date Created and/or Issued
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
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
View of a prickly cactus tree on the sidewalk in front of 311 South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with a sign "School and Kindergarten" visible.
3069 Prickly Pear Cactus. [Opuncia Vulgaris]" and "Payne, Stanton & Co. Los Angeles, Cal."--text, printed in margins. Title transcribed from item. Date devised by cataloger based on similar photograph of cactus made by Carleton E. Watkins during a trip to Southern California, circa 1880 (photCL_555_03_1028). Related item photCL_555_03_11133 is the same image without the Payne, Stanton & Co. imprint. See related items for other views of the cactus.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : print ; mount 10 x 17.5 cm
Identifier
photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/17122
Subject
Cactus
Streets
Photographs. (aat)
Stereographs. (aat)
Place
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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