File:Hundreds of pigeons flock about a large coop on a pigeon ranch near the Los Angeles River (CHS-1274).jpg

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English: Hundreds of pigeons flock about a large coop on a pigeon ranch near the Los Angeles River.
  • Photograph of hundreds of pigeons flocking about a large dovecoat at the Los Angeles Pigeon Farm on the Los Angeles River in Cypress Park, Los Angeles, just past the Riverside bridge at the junction of Verdugo Road and San Fernando Boulevard, ca. 1900.
  • 20,000 pigeons under the care of a superintendant and three helpers (no one in image). About 300 to 500 squabs would be dressed each day for market. The pigeons consume 1,500 pounds of grain each day.
  • The slope of the Verdugo Hills is in the left background.


Call number: CHS-1274
Filename: CHS-1274
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
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 1274
Microfiche number: 1-88-1
Archival file: chs_Volume69/CHS-1274.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-m9598; USC-1-1-1-9737
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
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/9847
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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