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Image / Drawing of a cowboy sport, "snatching the rooster", ca.1889

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Title
Drawing of a cowboy sport, "snatching the rooster", ca.1889
Contributor
Packman, Mrs
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1889
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 half-tone print of a drawing of a cowboy sport, "snatching the rooster", in which the cowboy leans down from a galloping horse to pull a buried rooster out of the ground, ca.1889. The horse is racing to the right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
8 x 10 in.
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
photographic prints
negatives (photographic)
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m9537
USC-1-1-1-9675 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-1813
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9537
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-1813.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Ranching--Cowboys--Rodeo
Cowboys
Rodeos
Time Period
circa 1889
Place
USA
Source
1-156- [Microfiche number]
1813 [Accession number]
CHS-1813 [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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