Image / Banana trees at Wolfskill's, Los Angeles

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Title: Banana trees at Wolfskill's, Los Angeles
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: 1877
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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: A man with a long beard and wide-brimmed hat stands in front of a thick grove of banana trees, presumably on the property of horticulturist Joseph Wolfskill in Los Angeles, California.
Title derived from Watkins New Series stereo #4383. Date devised by cataloger; Watkins made two trips to Southern California, in 1877 and 1880. Man in photo is possibly Carleton Watkins. Title printed on stereo #4383 is spelled "Wolfskell," but the correct spelling is Wolfskill.
Type: Image
Extent: 1 photograph : albumen print ; mount 16 x 12 cm
Identifier: photCL 74
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/14865
Subject: Bananas--California--Los Angeles
Ranches--California--Los Angeles
Trees--California--Los Angeles
Tropical plants--California--Los Angeles
Cabinet photographs. (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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