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Title: Pueblo of Los Angeles map
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1849
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Additional oversized print of map available in the SPNB Collection.; Photographic reproduction of an 1849 map. Reproduction sponsored by the Federal Writers' Project, dated May 19, 1936. Most of the handwriting present on the map is illegible due to its size and the fading of the ink.
Map of the first survey of the pueblo of Los Angeles, made by Lt. Edward O.C. Ord, U.S. Army, in August 1849. The map reads, "Plan de la Ciudad de Los Angeles ... surveyed and drawn by E.O.C. Ord."; See image 00067714 for a detailed view of the northern portion of the map.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067713
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 342 4x5
CARL0000072889
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2590
Subject: Historical geography--Maps
Maps
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Maps
Ord, Edward O. C

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