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 mural painting which depicts the founding of Los Angeles, ca.1931-1939. The mural, reproduced from a September 1931 issue of Touring Topics magazine is painted in a graphic, undetailed style and sports a caption over the top which reads "The Founding of Los Angeles 1781". Settlers in pilgrim-style clothing are visible, with a flag in the foreground and a collection of horses and riders in the background. The microfiche of the image shows supplementary text that appears to be from the magazine: it includes a ballad by John Russel McCarthy that begins "Peons from lazy Mexico", identifies the editor of the magazine as Phil Townsend Hanna and the artist of the painting as Millard Sheets.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs art
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