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Title
In the old Protestant Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif
Creator
Hazard, George Washington, 1842-1914
Date Created and/or Issued
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
View of headstones and tombs in the Protestant Cemetery, Los Angeles. The headstone at center says "Charles Volney Howard. Born Oct. 13, 1812. Died Feb. 14, 1869."
Title transcribed from negative. Date range approximated by cataloger based on the year that film negatives came into use and the latest known dates indicated for other Hazard images in the Huntington's collection. Research shows this is the Los Angeles City Cemetery, also known as the Protestant Cemetery, Fort Moore Hill Cemetery, Fort Hill Cemetery, or “the cemetery on the hill.” - Source: Southern California Genealogical Society Database: Los Angeles City Cemetery. Charles Howard, a young lawyer of prominence and a son of Volney E. Howard ...was killed in a dispute Feb. 14, 1869. (p. 384)-(Source: "Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913, Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark," The Knickerbocker Press, 1926.) Condition note: White "flaring" seen on the edge of this digital image is present in the original negative.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9 x 9.5 cm
Identifier
photCL_555
489564
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/18405
Subject
Cemeteries
Gravestones
Photographs. (aat)
Place
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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