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Title
Birdseye view of Sonora Town looking north along Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1875
Date Created and/or Issued
1870/1880
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 a birdseye view of Sonora Town looking north along Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1875. Broadway cuts up through the center of the frame, wide and unpaved. It is lined to either side by residential blocks full of one-story craftsman-style houses arranged in no apparent order. A hill is partially visible in the lower left foreground and mountains are visible in the distance. Compares to: CHS-6908 6954 7078 7388 7390. These images show similar views of Sonora Town during differing years.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographs
maps
Identifier
chs-m4933
USC-1-1-1-5031 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7388
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4933
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7388.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Los Angeles--Sonora Town--General
Plazas
Cities
Time Period
1870/1880
Place
Broadway
California
Los Angeles
Sonora Town
USA
Source
1-15-111 [Microfiche number]
7388 [Accession number]
CHS-7388 [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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