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Title
Ramona Lubo, a Cahuilla Indian woman, Cahuilla, California, April 5, 1899
Creator
James, George Wharton
Date Created and/or Issued
1899-04-05
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
Photographic portrait of Ramona Lubo, a Cahuilla Indian woman, Cahuilla, California, April 5, 1899. Said to be the Ramona upon which the novel of the same name by Helen Hunt Jackson was based, she was the wife of Allesandro. She is wearing a light-colored dress and is visible from the waist up. Her dark hair is parted in the middle. She can be seen outside sitting in front of an adobe brick wall.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w
22 x 17 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m17138
USC-1-1-1-13920 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-4752
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17138
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-4752.jpg
Subject
Indians--Mission--Cahuilla
Indians of North America
Cahuilla Indians
Mission Indians
Ramona
Tribal areas
Time Period
1899-04-05
Place
-116.743057,33.540829
Cahuilla
California
Riverside
USA
Source
1-172- [Microfiche number]
4752 [Accession number]
CHS-4752 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: James-2019; unidentified no: James-2020 [Identifying number]
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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