Ramona.

Format:

Image

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885. Ramona--Pictorial works.

Jackson, Helen Hunt.

Cahuilla Indians--Portraits.

Cahuilla Indians.

Cahuilla women--Portraits.

Cahuilla women.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

May, Annie Noyes, 1873-1943 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 postcard : black and white ; sheet 9 x 14 cm (postcard format)

Place of Publication:

[Hemet, California?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1907 and 1909]

Summary:

Divided back postcard with (now?) sepia reproduction of photograph of Cahuilla Indian Ramona Lubo (captioned on photograph in white manuscript: Ramona), popularly identified with the protagonist of Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona, on front.

Notes:

Title from caption of photograph.

Terminus post quem for imprint date from presence of divided back, first authorized by the U.S. Postal Service on 1 March 1907. Possible publisher location and terminus ante quem for imprint date from partially illegible cancellation stamp on Penn Libraries Schimmel Collection copy which reads: HEMET M[...] 6[...] 190[...] CAL.

Image on front of postcard 91 x 77 mm.

Back of postcard headed: Post Card. Left side of divider headed: Correspondence here. Right side of divider headed: For address only.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy addressed on back to "Mrs. Geo. A. May, Santa Maria Cal. Santa Barbara Co.", that is, Annie Laura May (née Noyes; 1873-1943), wife of George Arthur May (1870-1934); signed on front "Mrs. G."

OCLC:

1288018895