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Title
Portrait of Aaron Winters and his wife Rosie, discoverers of borax in Death Valley, ca.1880
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1880
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 Aaron Winters and his wife Rosie, discoverers of borax in Death Valley, ca.1880. Aaron is seated at left and is looking straight ahead. He is wearing a dark suit, a dark vest, and a light shirt. He has a long dark goatee and moustache, and his dark hair is curly. His wife is standing at right and is looking to the left and resting her arm on her husband's shoulder. She is wearing a long dark dress with a light lace collar and cuffs. She has long dark hair tied up behind her head and parted in the middle.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm., 22 x 17 cm.
transparencies
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m19760
USC-1-1-1-13988 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11851
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19760
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11851.jpg
Subject
Men
Women
Portraits--W
Winters, Aaron
Winters, Rosie
Time Period
circa 1880
Place
California
USA
Source
1-27- [Microfiche number]
11851 [Accession number]
CHS-11851 [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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