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Guide to the Stereographs of the Modoc War, 1873
PC-RM-Stereos: Box
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Title: Stereographs of the Modoc War,
Date: 1873
Collection number: PC-RM-Stereos: Box
03
Creator:
Muybridge, Eadweard
Extent:
22 photographic prints (mounted), 8.5 x 17.5 cm. and 10 x 18 cm.
Repository:
California Historical Society, North Baker Library
San Francisco, California 94105-4014
Abstract: Stereographs of the Modoc War and surrounding Siskiyou County
landscape taken by Eadweard Muybridge.
Physical location: Please consult repository.
Language:
English.
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Stereographs of the Modoc War. PC-RM-Stereos: Box 03, California Historical Society,
North Baker Research Library, Photography Collection.
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Scope and Content of Collection
Contains images of the Modoc War: lava beds at Tule Lake (including several panels from two
different sets of incomplete panoramic views), U.S. Army camp tents, members of the Modoc
tribe, and Warm Spring Indian scouts, including a portrait of scout Donald McKy (i.e.,
McKay). Stereographs published by Bradley & Rulofson.
Organized by stereograph mount size.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
McKay, Donald--Indian
scout--Portraits.
United States--Army--Pictorial
works.
Modoc Indians--Wars, 1873--Pictorial
works.
Modoc Indians--California--Siskiyou
County--Pictorial works.
Indian scouts--California--Siskiyou
County--Pictorial works.
Formations (geology)--California--Siskiyou
County--Photographs.
Lava--California--Siskiyou
County--Photographs.
Siskiyou County (Calif.)--Pictorial
works.
Tule Lake (Calif.)--Pictorial
works.
Other Index Terms Related to this Collection
Bradley & Rulofson.