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Title: Adohr Milk Farm
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Burt, Burton O
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
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: The Spanish land grant that made up Rancho Malibu was split into three parcels in 1905 after the death of Frederick Hastings Rindge. In 1916 Rindge's daughter Rhoda and her husband Merritt Adamson Sr. established a dairy farm named Adohr (Rhoda spelled backward) located at 18000 Ventura Blvd. in Tarzana. The farm was famous for breeding Guernsey cattle. Land was slowly sold during the depression and in 1948 the remaining 500 acres were sold to developers when the dairy farm moved to Camarillo. The Camarillo farm was sold for the Westview Park subdivision in 1969. Only the milkmaid statue remains, stored in a Tulare County processing plant.
Exterior view of the Adohr Milk Farm in Tarzana on May 29, 1939.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print:b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00064882
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 4197 4x5
CARL0000068708
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2547
Subject: Adohr Stock Farms
Farms--California--Tarzana (Los Angeles)
Dairy farms--California--Tarzana (Los Angeles)
Milk plants--California--Los Angeles
Storage tanks--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Tarzana (Los Angeles)
Tarzana (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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