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Title: Encino Adobe
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Don Vincent de la Osa acquired title in 1851 to Los Encinos Rancho where this house stands and is credited with building the nine-room adobe. It was a popular rest place along the highway called El Camino Real (now Ventura Boulevard). It was unoccupied in 1936 except for a caretaker. Photo dated: June, 1936.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067671
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 36 4x5
CARL0000072819
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2343
Subject: Vincent de la Osa Adobe (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Adobe houses--California--Encino (Los Angeles)
Ranches--California--Encino (Los Angeles)
Dwellings--California--Encino (Los Angeles)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Encino (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Encinos Rancho (Calif.)
Osa, Vicente de la

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