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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a plaque cemented into the trunk of a tree identifying the tree as the site of California's first Easter services, 1938. A rectangular plaque is shown up close, sunken into the crenulated bark of a tree trunk. The plaque reads "Under this oak the legend runs. The first Easter services in California were held by Father Crespi in 1770. Marked by Oneonta Park Chap D.A.R. Mrs. H. Stanley Bent Regent April 1932".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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