1910 Print San Pablo Creek California Ellis Landing Shellmound Historic XGZ9 YFT3 "The Ivory Soap habit thrust

"The Ivory Soap habit thrust upon the lad during early youth becomes fixed

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Lawrence Holdridge

1910 Print San Pablo Creek California Ellis Landing Shellmound Historic XGZ9 YFT3 "The Ivory Soap habit thrustThis is an original 1910 halftone print of the shellmound located on the south bank of San Pablo Creek, which, at the time, had already been cultivated for over fifty years. The second image shows the Ellis Landing Shellmound near Richmond, California. 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