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[Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony promotional postcards].
BANC PIC 2018.025--PIC
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Title:
[Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony promotional postcards]Creator/Contributor:
Llano Colony (Secular community), creator, publisher.Abstract:
Illustrated postcards depicting scenes of everyday life in Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony in Llano, Calif., with printed
captions promoting various virtues of the community: Montessori school education; logging, lumber and other industries; livestock
and agriculture; recreation; and art.
Date:
1917 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caLlano Colony (Secular community) -- Photographs
Llano (Calif.) -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer(s) unknown. Presumably issued by the Llano Colony.
Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony promotional postcards, BANC PIC 2018.025, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Purchase ; from Bolerium Books ; in 2017.
Llano del Rio: socialist community devised in 1913 by Job Harriman in Antelope Valley, Calif.; opened to public membership
in 1914; population peaked at over 1100 in mid-1917; by 1918 the colony had abandoned the California location and resettled
in New Llano, Louisiana.
Type:
graphicPostcards.
Physical Description:
photoprint
8 photographs in 1 folder : monochromatic halftone prints ; sheets 9 x 14 cm (postcard format)
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 2018.025--PIC