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 drawing of an exterior view of the Mexican Courthouse in San Jose, ca.1900. The courthouse, or Jusgado, is a small, square, adobe building at center. It has white walls and three small windows. There is an open doorway at center in which two people are conversing. An American flag flies high on a pole at center. There is a covered wagon being pulled by a team of four horses at right, and a mounted vaquero at left. The Jusgado was built in 1798 and stood until 1850. It was a one story adobe on Market Street, a little west of El Dorado. There were three rooms: the middle one was used as the court the east one by the Alcade, and the west on served as the jail. This was the second courthouse, the first one having been built in 1783 in the old pueblo north of Market Square.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 13 x 18 cm. photographic prints photographs art
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