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Title
Panorama of Sonora Town, the first plaza area in Los Angeles, ca.1924
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1924
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 in panorama of Sonora Town, the first plaza area in Los Angeles, ca.1924. The densely packed town shows buildings up to but not exceeding four stories, one of which to the left sports three spires. Telephone poles are also interspersed among them. This area marks the location of the first settlement in 1781. Fourty-four persons were alotted town lots within the lines drawn. Tree foliage hangs in from the right of the frame.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m4928
USC-1-1-1-5026 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-6371
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4928
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-6371.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Los Angeles--Sonora Town--General
Plazas
Architecture
Cities
Time Period
circa 1924
Place
California
Los Angeles
Sonora Town
USA
Source
1-15-74 [Microfiche number]
6371 [Accession number]
CHS-6371 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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