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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a panoramic view of the Plaza and church, showing the early landscaping of the surrounding area, Los Angeles, 1873. The brick well water house is in the center of the Plaza. This building was the first water works in Los Angeles. Picture file card reads: "Photo by C.J. Prudhomme. Note: photo contains the following reference points -- 1. Plaza Church built in 1821 2. Residence of Commander Stockton in 1846 (the Avila adobe?) 3. Residence of Don Tiburcio Tapia in 1844 4. Sisters of Charity Hospital in 1860 5. Home of Don Juan Apablasa 6. Residence of Senora Choma (or Chona?) Navarro 7. Residence built by Don Juan Ballesteros, known as the home of Don Vicente Lugo 8. The Plaza as it looked in 1873 9. Residence of Senora Josefa Dominguez 10. Home of Don Romulo Pico 11. Temporary home of Don Pio Pico in 1868 12. First site of the Gas Works in 1869 13. First cemetary in Los Angeles 14. Orchard of Don Matthew Keller in 1860 15. Orchard of Juan M. Ramirez".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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