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Title
Mesa on which Acoma is built, ca.1900
Creator
James, George Wharton
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 the mesa on which Acoma is built, ca.1900. Large rock formations emerge from the mountainside from both sides of the picture. Smaller boulders line the lower areas, and through a gap between the sides, more mountains can be seen in the distance.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
16 x 20 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m21149
USC-1-1-1-13461 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-46817
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m21149
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-46817.jpg
Subject
Acoma Indians
Acoma
Indians--Acoma
Indians of North America
Natural rock formations
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
New Mexico
USA
mesas: Mesa Encantada
Source
46817 [Accession number]
CHS-46817 [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
Provenance
Southwest Native American Photograph Collection

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