Los Angeles, vue sur un élévage de pigeons

Datation : 1904

Commentaire datation : La date est inscrite dans la légende

Auteur du cliché : Underwood & Underwood

Editeur : Underwood & Underwood , mention d'édition : Underwood & Underwood Publishers

Lieu de la prise de vue : Los Angeles , Californie , États-Unis /Amérique du Nord/États-Unis/Californie/Los Angeles

Texte au recto : A gauche : Underwood & Underwood Publishers New-York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas A droite : Works and studios Arlington NF, Littleton, Washington D.C. Sous l'image de droite : Sixteen Thousand Pigeons and their model apartment houses, on a great pigeon farm, Los Angeles, Cal. Copyright 1904 by Underwood & Underwood.

Texte au verso : There are eight acres in this unique farm the largest pigeon farm in the world. Several houses like this give accommodations for the owner's enormous flocks. He began with about three thousand birds and in three years, besides selling each year near $10,000 worth of squabs, the number of breeding birds has increased to the present figure of sixteen thousand. That "hotel," with its gabled roof covered with gossipping boarders, has inside as well as outside rooms; light inner aisles give access to nesting compartments as popular with the tenants as those you see on the outside. The male chooses a nest before he takes a mate. The incubation period is eighteen days, and during that time he takes a turn on the nest for an hour or so twice a day, giving the female a recess. Squabs des tined for the market are sent off when they are about three weeks old; if kept after they have learned to fly, the exercise makes them lose bulk, turning their first plump baby flesh into tough muscle. The squabs that are kept for breeding take mates when about six months old. By culling out squabs of certain colors for the mar ket, it is of course possible to produce gradually a fairly uniform style of plumage in the perma nent flock The moulting season is September and October. Every week there is a thorough house-cleaning with carbolic acid, sulphur and insect powder, and the hotel guests are kept in prime condition. It costs $15 daily to feed this big family. Twelve sacks of screenings, eight of grain and generous allowances of stale bread and boiled meal satisfy their healthy appetites. They like it here and almost never stray from the home enclosure. Guano and waste feathers (used in upholstery) are valuable side products of this interesting enterprise. From Notes of Travel, No. 6, copyrighted, 1904, by Underwood & Underwood. A Palace-Hotel for 16.000 Pigeons, Los Angeles, Cal. Un hôtel-palais pour 16.000 colombes, Los Angeles, Cal. (---) Un hotel-palacio para 16.000 palomas, Los Angeles, Cal. Ett palatsartigt alag för 16.000 dufvor, Los Angeles, Cal. (---)

Etat de conservation : bon

Lieu de conservation : Lescar

Type de support : Photographies collées sur carton

Dimensions du support : 9 x 18 cm

Dimensions de l'image Haute Définition : 8453 X 4260 pixels

Information développement : Positif

Information couleur : Noir et Blanc

Type de stéréo sauvegardée : Anaglyphe (bleu / rouge)

Date d'entrée dans la stéréothèque : Janvier 2014

Proprietaire : M. Magendie

N° d'inventaire : Mag0047

Elaboration de la notice : Catherine Carponsin-Martin (indexation collaborative)