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Title
Twenty-mule team standing in front of John Searl's borax warehouse in Mojave, 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
Photograph of a twenty-mule team standing in front of John Searles' borax warehouse in Mojave, ca.1880. The mules are hitched to two large wagons in two long lines. The wagons are massive and are heavily loaded with hay(?). The back wheels are considerably larger than the front ones. A group of four men is standing near the lead wagon at center. The warehouse is behind the mule team and is a long, large wooden building with two massive doorways. A caption is illegibly handwritten on the bottom of the image.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5341
USC-0-1-1-5454 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-13085
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5341
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-13085.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Antelope Valley
Mules
Hay--Transportation
Warehouses
Searles, John
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1880
Place
California
Mojave
USA
Source
1-158- [Microfiche number]
13085 [Accession number]
CHS-13085 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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