Harvesting Beans, Madera County, Calif., 1900

Summary

Extent:

1 album (7 photographic prints, 10 x 13 cm. or smaller); 18 x 15 cm. 8 digital objects

Language:

English

Background

Scope and content:

The Harvesting Beans album contains seven photographic prints taken in 1900 by an unidentified photographer. The album features scenes of unidentified Indian women performing various harvesting activities in an unspecified location of Madera County. The photographs also picture papooses, children working, two young men with bows and arrows, an older man on a horse, a tepee formed from a bush, and other farm structures. The type of beans pictured in the album is not identified.

The album's title, "Natives Harvesting Beans, Madera Co., Calif., 1900," is hand-written in gold ink on the front cover. Hand-written captions appear beneath the photographs on the album's leaves. The interleaved papers bear the watermark of Saxony Linen and the copyright stamp of L.A.R. Peckinpah, of Yountville, Napa County, California. The album's binding is hand-stitched.

Acquisition information:

The Harvesting Beans album was acquired in 1983 from an unknown source.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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