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Title: Zanja water in Pershing Square
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1880
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: This was Zanja number 6 and was built by O. W. Childs, who was the lower of two bidders for the project. In payment he received land from 6th Street to Pico Boulevard and Main Street to Figueroa. The zanja was part of the city's water delivery system from the river.; Former Mayor Cristobal Aguilar signed Pershing Square into being in 1866. At the time, Pershing Square was called La Plaza Abaja ("The Lower Plaza"). However, it was renamed Pershing Square in 1918 in honor of General John J. Pershing. It is bounded by 5th, 6th, Hill and Olive streets.
Zanja (canal) through Central Park.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00011079
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Parks-Pershing Square; N-004-429 8x10
CARL0000012836
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84689
Subject: Water-supply--California--Los Angeles
Parks--California--Los Angeles
Pershing Square (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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