File:Organ cactus in central Mexico, ca.1900-1920 (CHS-693).jpg

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Organ cactus in central Mexico, ca.1900-1920
Photograph of a lot of organ cactus (so named for their resemblance to organ pipes) in a field in central Mexico, ca.1900-1920. The pitaya nopales (ripened fruit, or tuna, and stem segments) are edible. Eight people (men and children) lounge about the cacti. One man is carrying clay jars.
Call number: CHS-693
Filename: CHS-693
Coverage date: circa 1900/1920
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Format: glass plate negatives
Microfiche number: 1-77-8
Archival file: chs_Volume90/CHS-693.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Subject (adlf): deserts
Geographic subject (country): Mexico
Format (aacr2): 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 13 x 20 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Project: USC
Accession number: 693
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1900/1920
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Legacy record ID: chs-m14590; USC-1-1-1-14155; USC-1-1-1-14203
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Mexico -- Zacateca; Botany -- Cacti
Subject (lcsh): Cactus; Indians of North America
Date circa 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
/1920 (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/15229
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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