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Title: La Brea Rancho house
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project.; Gilmore Gasoline Co
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: Exterior view of the Rancho La Brea adobe in June 1936. Located in the vicinity of 3rd Street and Fairfax Avenue, the adobe was built in 1852 by sheriff James Thompson, on land owned by Portuguese sailor Antonio Rocha. The home was later purchased by Earl B. Gilmore in 1901.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00066156
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 48 4x5
CARL0000071119
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2167
Subject: Ranches--California--Los Angeles
Adobe houses--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Rocha, Antonio,1791?-1840
La Brea Rancho (Calif.)
Gilmore, Earl B

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