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Title
Painting by James Walker depicting a well-dressed California caballero on his horse, ca.1840
Creator
Walker, James
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1840
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of a painting by James Walker depicting a well-dressed caballero on his horse, ca.1840. The man and horse are pictured in profile at center, facing right. The man wears a tan bolero suit with red trim and a white shirt, and carries a red horse-blanket behind him. His horse is deep brown and the grass beneath them appears to be parched. Picture file card reads "Los Angeles Museum of Natural History".
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photoprint, photonegative, transparency, b&w
26 x 21 cm., 13 x 18 cm., 6 x 6 cm.
negatives (photographic)
transparencies
photographic prints
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m10056
USC-1-1-1-10196 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12785
CHS-12785.1
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10056
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12785.jpg
Subject
Californios--Illustrations
Mexican Americans
Cowboys
Walker, James
Grasslands
Time Period
circa 1840
Place
California
USA
Mexico
Source
12785; 12785.1 [Accession number]
CHS-12785; CHS-12785.1 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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