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Title
Photograph of the Drake plate left by English explorer Sir Francis Drake on his visit to Northern California, ca.1578
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1578
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 the Drake plate left by English explorer Sir Francis Drake on his visit to Northern California, ca.1578. Rows of crudely sketched, almost indiscernible letters appear clumped together on the plate, which bears to indentions on the center of its top and bottom. What appears to be a hole in the sheet can be seen on the bottom-most right corner.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12742
USC-0-1-1-12894 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43764
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12742
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43764.jpg
Subject
Drake, Sir Francis
Explorers
Historic sites
U.S. History--California--Documents
Time Period
circa 1578
Place
California
USA
Source
43764 [Accession number]
CHS-43764 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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