View of a cemetery in Cahuilla showing Ramona standing near the grave of Alessandro, ca.1900

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Title	View of a cemetery in Cahuilla showing Ramona standing near the grave of Alessandro, ca.1900
Description	Photograph of a view of a cemetery in Cahuilla showing Ramona standing near the grave of Alessandro, ca.1900. The woman is standing at center and facing to the left with her hand on the wooden grave marker of her deceased husband. She is wearing a long dress and light-colored shirt. There are several other small, wooden, cross-shaped, grave markers in the area around Ramona, and behind and to the right of her are four gravesites surrounded by wooden picket fences. There is a large rock formation on a hill in the background at right. Ramona and Alessandro were Cahuilla Indians upon whom Helen Hunt Jackson based her book Ramona.
Subject	Ramona; Alessandro
Subject (adlf)	cemeteries
Subject (file heading)	Indians -- Ramona -- Subjects
Subject (lcsh)	Indians of North America Fiction Books Cemeteries
Subject (naf)	Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885
Geographic subject	tribal areas: Cahuilla Indian Reservation
Geographic subject (county)	Riverside
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1900
Photographer	Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1900
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm., 13 x 18 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Accession number	11195
Call number	CHS-11195
Microfiche number	1-188-
Legacy record ID	chs-m19337; USC-1-1-1-14072
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-11195
Archival file	chs_Volume105/CHS-11195.tiff

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