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Title: Los Angeles Orphanage, front view
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
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: A long driveway lined with palms leads to the Los Angeles Orphanage, established by the Daughters of Charity who arrived in Los Angeles in 1856. In 1890, they replaced their original orphanage near Alameda and Macy Streets with this brick building in Boyle Heights.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00035676
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1650; HE-001-624 4x5
CARL0000038450
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15083
Subject: Los Angeles Orphanage
Orphanages--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Driveways--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Palms--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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