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Title
Portrait of eight men moving the Baxter Block building downtown from South California Street, 1882
Date Created and/or Issued
1882
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
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
Photographic portrait of eight men moving the Baxter Block building downtown from South California Street, 1882. At center, eight men stand in a field of scrub brush, facing the viewer. In the background, a square, two-story building with clapboard siding is visible, fitted onto railroad tracks and pulled by a team of horses. The downtown location of the building was the corner of Lemon Avenue and Myrtle Avenue.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2633
USC-0-1-1-2696 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41262
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2633
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41262.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Monrovia
Moving of buildings, bridges, etc
Buildings
Time Period
1882
Place
California
Lemon Avenue & Myrtle Avenue
Los Angeles
Monrovia
USA
Source
41262 [Accession number]
CHS-41262 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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