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Title
Two cannons half buried upright in the street at the intersection of Main Street and Commercial Street, Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1890/1898
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 two Mexican cannons captured by Americans half buried upright in the street on the southeast corner of Main Street and Commercial Street (Court Street), Los Angeles. An office of Farmers and Merchants Bank is visible behind. Two figures (pedestrians?) on the sidewalk have been scratched out of the image.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m6366 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2752
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6366
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2752.jpg
Subject
Banks and banking
Military weapons
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Cannons
Main Street--L.A. Historical
Time Period
circa 1890/1898
Place
California
Los Angeles
Main Street & Commercial Street
USA
Source
1-6-5 [Microfiche number]
2752 [Accession number]
CHS-2752 [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
chs-m265

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