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Title
Agave Americana (Century Plant) bloom on Sixth Street and Loomis Street, ca.1895
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1895
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
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
Photograph of the Agave Americana (Century plant) at 6th Street and Loomis Street, Los Angeles, ca.1895. The tall plant is at the top of a rise in a lawn which has several other plants and trees. A dwelling is prominent in the background.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
13 x 21 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m14214 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-27
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14214
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-27.jpg
Subject
Flowers
Plants
Cultivated Flowers
Foliage
Botany--Agave (Century plant)
Residential sites
Time Period
circa 1895
Place
California
Intersection 6th Street & Loomis Street
Los Angeles
Source
1-82-5 [Microfiche number]
27 [Accession number]
CHS-27 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
chs-m265

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