File:Massive bird coop covered in pigeons on a pigeon ranch on the Los Angeles River, ca.1900 (CHS-1496).jpg

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English: Massive bird coop covered in pigeons on a pigeon ranch on the Los Angeles River, ca.1900
Photograph of a massive dovecoat covered in pigeons at the Los Angeles Pigeon Farm on the Los Angeles River in Cypress Park, Los Angeles. Located just past the Riverside Bridge at the junction of Verdugo Road and San Fernando Boulevard, ca.1900.
  • 20,000 pigeons are daily fed 1,500 pounds of grain under the care of a superintendant and three helpers who also dress 300 to 500 squabs each day for market. Many of the pigeons are either flying or are sitting on crates on the rocky ground at right.
  • Trees are visible behind the scene.
Call number: CHS-1496
Filename: CHS-1496
Coverage date: circa 1900
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles
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Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 1496
Microfiche number: 1-88-3
Archival file: chs_Volume69/CHS-1496.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): agricultural sites
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1900
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Agriculture -- Ranching -- Livestock -- Pigeons
Legacy record ID: chs-m9599; USC-1-1-1-9738
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Geographic subject (roadway): Verdugo Road & San Fernando Boulevard
Subject (lcsh): Pigeons
Date circa 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/9848
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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