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Title
Ocampo Plaza--sports arena in the Los Angeles Plaza, ca.1875-1880
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1875/1880
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 of Ocampo Plaza where "bull and cock-fights were held east of the plaza", Los Angeles, ca.1875-1880. This was the patio of the Leandre-O'Campo adobe (later the site of Los Angeles Street and a fire engine station). Several horse-drawn vehicles are parked adjacent to the L-shaped adobe. An orchard is visible gehind the adobe.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
26 x 20 cm.
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 17 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m4853
USC-1-1-1-4951 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2878
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4853
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2878.jpg
Subject
Adobe houses
Sports facilities
Los Angeles--Sonora Town--Architecture--Domestic
Los Angeles--Plaza #1--General views--1860 to 1879
Recreational facilities
Time Period
circa 1875/1880
Place
California
Los Angeles Street
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-15-38 [Microfiche number]
2878 [Accession number]
CHS-2878 [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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