California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

View of the ruins of the Willow Springs stage coach stop, showing a horse-drawn coach, ca.1886

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View of the ruins of the Willow Springs stage coach stop, showing a horse-drawn coach, ca.1886

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Photograph of a view of the ruins of the Willow Springs stage coach stop, showing a horse-drawn coach, ca.1886. The adobe brick ruins of the Willow Springs stage coach stop sit in the right background of the image, alone in the barren desert landscape. A horse-drawn coach with several horses near it sits in the left centerground, near a large bush. There is a deep cut in the earth in the foreground that runs to the background, possibly man-made or water-carved. Willow Springs was an early Native American camp that was visited by Garces in 1776 as well as by J. Smith in the early 1820's and Fremont. Other buildings at Willow Springs were built by Ezra Hamilton in the 1900's, though the stage coach stop was built in the 1860's.

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Title View of the ruins of the Willow Springs stage coach stop, showing a horse-drawn coach, ca.1886

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1886

Subject Adobe brick (lcsh), Coaching (lcsh), Horses (lcsh), Terminals (Transportation) (lcsh), Transportation -- Draft -- Stage coaches -- Stations (file heading), transportation features (adlf), Willow Springs Stage Station (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries), Willow Springs (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1886

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

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-m20698

Identifier 31276 (accession number), CHS-31276 (call number), CHS-31276 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24692 (legacy record id), chs-m20698 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-12000 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24692

Unique identifier UC130546

Legacy Identifier CHS-31276.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.5 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
49.6 cm × 40.8 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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