Steer

A two year old steer, grown on Jornada Range Reserve. Fed ensilage winter of 1914 and about one and a half pound cottonseed cake to supplement range from May 25 to November 15, 1915. File number 32GR50. Dona Ana County, New Mexico. United States Forest Service, Washington, D.C. Black and white images hand painted directly on glass with either transparent oil paints, aniline dyes or watercolors by colorists. Glass lantern slides were sometimes baked after painting to set paint layers.