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Description
Photograph of an older couple outside the "Hacienda Aguilar", at San Juan Capistrano Mission, Orange County, ca.1885. The woman, kneeling just outside of the adobe and under the porch, is working food in a carved stone basin (metate). The man, outside of the porch, is splitting firewood. Propped up against the wall near the entrance to the adobe are a broom and a bucket. To the right of the entrance is a bed of taro plants. Behind the woman is an early adobe oven. Picture file card reads: "East end of north wing of Hacienda Aguilar ('La Casa de Esperanza') built and added to from 1794 to 1840's -- wife of the Alcalde D. Blas Aguilar, Dona Maria Antonia Gutierrez y Geta, posing with Indian stone metate and mano. Old Indian retainer, Rosario Cervantes, at work. Old adobe mission oven and ruined east wall of patio now entirely gone" -- unknown author, ca.1980.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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