1910 Print Ellis Landing Shellmound Brooks Island Marsh California XGZ9 Political YSFC3A10C59 zz10000

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It faces France across the narrowest part of the English Channel and lies Southeast of Canterbury

Crozier is known for inventing the Buffington Crozier Disappearing Gun Carriage

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

1910 Print Ellis Landing Shellmound Brooks Island Marsh California XGZ9 Political YSFC3A10C59 zz10000This 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.