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Title
Early small steam stern wheel ferry on the Colorado River, Yuma, Arizona, ca.1898
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1898
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 man and boy in early small steam stern wheel ferry on the Colorado River, Yuma, Arizona, ca.1898. The man sits at the center of the small, wooden ferry while the boy stands at left. A low, jagged cliff hangs in the left foreground with a tree that hangs over the milky water. The water continues into the background where mountains line the far bank. (From negative of Mrs. M.C. Post.)
Type
image
Format
4 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm., 17 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12641
USC-1-1-1-12795
USC-1-1-1-12874 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-114
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12641
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-114.jpg
Subject
Ferries
Rivers
Paddle steamers
Boats and boating
Steamboats
Transportation--Water--Ferries
Transportation--Water--Paddle wheel
General Subjects--Transportation--Water
Time Period
circa 1898
Place
Arizona
USA
Yuma
Source
1-121-1 [Microfiche number]
114 [Accession number]
CHS-114 [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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