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Title
Man with a picture of the biblical brass serpent in Mexico, ca.1905
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1905
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
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 man with a painting of the biblical brass serpent, in Mexico, ca.1905. A man in a suit holds an open book in his hands as he stands right of a small table covered in books and prayer(?) cards. Behind the table stands a picture of several men carrying a prone man as another person with a staff bearing a serpent stands in the distance.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
18 x 13 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m22090
USC-1-1-1-14146 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-47538
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m22090
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-47538.jpg
Subject
Bible
Mexico--General
Religious facilities
Time Period
circa 1905
Place
Mexico
Source
47538 [Accession number]
CHS-47538 [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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