California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Ramona Lubo, a Cahuilla Indian woman, Cahuilla, California, April 5, 1899

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Ramona Lubo, a Cahuilla Indian woman, Cahuilla, California, April 5, 1899

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Photographic portrait of Ramona Lubo, a Cahuilla Indian woman, Cahuilla, California, April 5, 1899. Said to be the Ramona upon which the novel of the same name by Helen Hunt Jackson was based, she was the wife of Allesandro. She is wearing a light-colored dress and is visible from the waist up. Her dark hair is parted in the middle. She can be seen outside sitting in front of an adobe brick wall.

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Title Ramona Lubo, a Cahuilla Indian woman, Cahuilla, California, April 5, 1899

Subject Cahuilla Indians (subject), Cahuilla Indians (lcsh), Indians -- Mission -- Cahuilla (file heading), Indians of North America (lcsh), Mission Indians (subject), Ramona (subject), tribal areas (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Cahuilla (city or populated place), California (states), Riverside (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1899-04-05

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm., 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1899-04-05

Creator James, George Wharton (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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17138

Identifier 4752 (accession number), CHS-4752 (call number), CHS-4752 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17150 (legacy record id), chs-m17138 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13920 (legacy record id), 1-172- (microfiche number), USC (project), James-2019 (unidentified no.), James-2020 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17150

Unique identifier UC142144

Legacy Identifier CHS-4752.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.8 in × 16.9 in at 300dpi
32.7 cm × 43.1 cm at 300dpi

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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

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