1910 Print Ellis Landing Shellmound Brooks Island Marsh California XGZ9 Political Corporal John Watts of Governors

Corporal John Watts of Governors Island

Hand-Painted Leather Wall Panels and more

"Born Yesterday"

and "Man Carrying a Load of Books" (1906)

This is an original 1904 black and white print ad for beef extract from the Cudahy Packing Company of South Omaha

1910 Print Ellis Landing Shellmound Brooks Island Marsh California XGZ9 Political Corporal John Watts of GovernorsThis is an original 1910 halftone print of the Ellis Landing Shellmound at high tide with a view of Brooks Island at the right. The second image shows the sea wall of the Ellis Landing Shellmound as it appeared in 1906 prior to excavation. A shellmound or midden is a wasteland used by previous human settlements, which accumulated with domestic waste containing shells, animal bones, human excrement, vermin and other ecological and human waste products.