1910 Print Ellis Landing Shellmound Brooks Island Marsh California XGZ9 Political "Born Yesterday"

"Born Yesterday"

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

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1910 Print Ellis Landing Shellmound Brooks Island Marsh California XGZ9 Political "Born Yesterday"This 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.