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Title: Oak in Placerita Canyon
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
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: View of the "Oak of Golden Dreams" in Placerita Canyon, where gold was first discovered in California in 1842 when Francisco Lopez was pulling wild onions. Note the rock pile in the center of the two sycamore trees. Dated October 28, 1937.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00064776
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 1591 4x5
CARL0000068562
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2521
Subject: Oaks--California--Los Angeles County
Trees--California--Los Angeles County
Gold--California--Los Angeles County--History
Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Placerita Canyon (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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