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Title: Marquez Family Cemetery
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
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: View of the Saint Lorenzo shrine at the Marquez Family Cemetery, located on San Lorenzo Street in Santa Monica Canyon, part of the Rancho Boca de Santa Monica. The shrine was erected by the Marquez family many generations ago. From 1848 to 1916, Marquez family members, including Micaela de Reyes and Pascual Marquez, son of Francisco R. Marquez, were buried in the cemetery. Descendants of the family continue to oversee the cemetery, a registered cultural-historic landmark. July 21, 1937.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00064736
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 1725 4x5
CARL0000068736
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2573
Subject: Marquez Family Cemetery (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Christian shrines--California--Santa Monica Canyon (Los Angeles County)
Shrines--California--Santa Monica Canyon (Los Angeles County)
Cemeteries--California--Santa Monica Canyon (Los Angeles County)
Walls--California--Santa Monica Canyon (Los Angeles County)
Rancho Boca de Santa Monica (Calif.)
Santa Monica Canyon (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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