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Description
Black and white photograph looking west from Alameda Street. Businesses, men, horses, and wagons, are pictured on both sides of the dirt street. Bottom of photo reads: West of Compton Boulevard from Alameda Street 1885. Caption on back of photograph reads: Compton, Main Street, 1885. This collection consists of color and black and white photographs, negatives, postcard-backed photos, and tin-types. Subjects of the photographs include people, businesses, churches, houses, schools, farming, transportation, and natural disasters. Communities covered in this collection include Compton, Torrance, Carson, Dominguez, Redondo Beach, Lynwood, Lakewood, San Pedro, Wilmington, Los Angeles, Terminal Island, and the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
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