Ducks, turkeys, chickens & stud horse, O'Hare Ranch – Antique Print
(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.)
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A window into the past: Ducks, turkeys, chickens & stud horse, O'Hare Ranch, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Ducks, turkeys, chickens & stud horse, O'Hare Ranch
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Rather than the broad fields common in Kern County views, this print centers on the animals kept at O'Hare Ranch: ducks, turkeys, chickens, and a stud horse. The record dates it only to the 1880s, a time when the southern San Joaquin Valley was turning toward farming and stock raising after the railroad reached Bakersfield in 1874. Ranches of this kind often kept poultry for the household and a stud horse for breeding, so the scene shows how varied a working California farm could be. The caption details are unverified, so treat the specifics as provisional.
| Created / published | 188-. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo of Kern County, California. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Farms...; Ranches...; Animals; Indians-- Reservations; Ca.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,179 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-130172 |
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