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Title
Carl Eytel and Van Buskirk with pack burros on their Colorado River trip with George Wharton James, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 Carl Eytel and Van Buskirk with two fully-loaded pack burros ("aparejo" type saddles with panniers and soft cargo on top) on their Colorado River trip with Dr. George Wharton James, ca.1900. Part of another man is visible at left. They stand in the desert. The surrounding sparse vegetation is scrub brush.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2581
USC-1-1-1-2643 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-4306
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2581
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-4306.jpg
Subject
Buskirk, Van
Eytel, Carl, 1862-1925
James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Freight and freightage
Deserts
Donkeys
Pack transportation
Transportation--Draft--Pack Trains
Shrublands
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Source
4306 [Accession number]
CHS-4306 [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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