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Title
Century plant (Agave Americana), Los Angeles, ca.1887
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1887
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of Century plant (Agave Americana), Los Angeles, ca.1887. This could either be the Thomas Meredith residence on north Broadway (Downey Avenue) and Avenue 25 or it could be on Pico Boulevard. Other plants and trees are also in the image. In the background can be seen the roof of a building with chimney.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
20 x 13 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m14270
USC-1-1-1-14227 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-150
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14270
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-150.jpg
Subject
Botany--Gardens--Landscaping
Flowers
Gardens
Landscape
Landscape architecture
Meredith, Thomas
Residential sites
Time Period
circa 1887
Place
California
Los Angeles
North Broadway and Avenue 25
Pico Boulevard
Source
1-82-15 [Microfiche number]
150 [Accession number]
CHS-150 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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