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View of a Cahuilla Indian graveyard showing Ramona at Alessandro's grave, ca.1900
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View of a Cahuilla Indian graveyard showing Ramona at Alessandro's grave, ca.1900
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Photograph of a view of a Cahuilla Indian graveyard showing Ramona at Alessandro's grave, ca.1900. The cemetery is full of small wooden grave markers in the shape of crosses. A handful of graves are surrounded by wooden picket fences. There are several mourners visible, including a woman bending over in the foreground and a man sitting on a rock at right. There is a large rock formation in the background at left. Ramon and Alessandro were Cahuilla Indians upon whom Helen Hunt Jackson based her book Ramona.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of a Cahuilla Indian graveyard showing Ramona at Alessandro's grave, ca.1900
Subject
Alessandro
(subject),
Books
(lcsh),
Cemeteries
(lcsh),
Cemeteries
(adlf),
Fiction
(lcsh),
Indians -- Ramona -- Subjects
(file heading),
Indians of North America
(lcsh),
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885
(naf),
Ramona
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
Cahuilla
(city or populated place),
California
(states),
Riverside County
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1900
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 13 x 18 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
specol@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Copyright
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19336
Identifier
11194 (
accession number
), CHS-11194 (
call number
), CHS-11194 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-19241 (
legacy record id
), chs-m19336 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14072 (
legacy record id
), 1-188- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
19241
Unique identifier
UC136779
Legacy Identifier
CHS-11194.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.7 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Description
The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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