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Title
Old home of Governor Pio Pico Los Angeles, Cal
Date Created and/or Issued
1886
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
View of an adobe building on New High Street at the intersection with Republic at the base of Fort Moore Hill (also known as Fort Hill) in the Plaza neighborhood (also called Sonora Town) of downtown Los Angeles, California, on New High Street. The Banning mansion visible at the top and a sign reading "Herald" can be seen at lower right.
"Old home of Governor Pio Pico Los Angeles, Cal."--text, handwritten in ink in margin. The attribution as the home of Pio Pico has not been verified. Title devised by cataloger; date approximated by cataloger based on development of the area; the Banning Mansion was built in 1886.
Type
Image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : print ; mount 13.6 x 18.6 cm
Identifier
photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19084
Subject
Banning, Phineas, 1830-1885--Homes & Haunts
Pico, Pío, 1801-1894--Homes and haunts
Sonora Town (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Adobe buildings
Dwellings
Photographs. (aat)
Cyanotypes (photographic prints) (aat)
Place
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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