Poet McGroarty's hilltop home harbors many memories
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph caption dated August 16, 1948 reads, "Neighbors' shrine to McGroarty - Situated atop Mount McGroarty is simple cross to 'San Ysidro,' patron of little homes. It was erected there by neighbors of poet as protection from reoccurance of brush fire which destroyed his original Tujunga home shortly after completion. No fire has struck that specific region since."; See images #00031254; 00127660 through #00127666 for all photos in this series.
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
McGroarty, John Steven,--1862-1944--Homes and haunts Ranches--California--Tujunga (Los Angeles) Crosses--California--Los Angeles Tujunga (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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