Tejon Ranch, Kern County, Cal. – Antique Wall Art
![Tejon Ranch, Kern County, Cal., [ca. 1888] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/09/09e6e238ddcb-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Tejon Ranch, Kern County, Cal., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Tejon Ranch, Kern County, Cal.
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Tejon Ranch, in Kern County, is one of the largest private landholdings in California, and this print turns to a corner of it that the caption card identifies only by name. Dated to about 1888, the photograph belongs to the decades when the Tejon, which had been a Mexican-era land grant before passing to American owners, was being worked as a commercial cattle and grain operation in the San Joaquin Valley's southern edge. The record is thin and its details come from an old caption card, so the scene itself should be read with some caution. Still, images like this are valuable for showing how large Western ranches looked and were managed in the late nineteenth century.
| Created / published | [ca. 1888] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,206 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108920 |
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