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Title
Map of Los Angeles, 1786
Creator
Penelon, Horatio
Date Created and/or Issued
1786
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 a map of Los Angeles, 1786. A grid of thirty-six squares can be seen in the lower right corner. A U-shaped arrangement of squares is visible in the upper left corner. The main ditch and the river can be seen at right. A road runs across the image at center. A compass rose at left shows that north is toward the upper left corner. The map is from Bancroft.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
13 x 10 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
maps
Identifier
chs-m23410 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-49920
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m23410
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-49920.jpg
Subject
Maps
Cities
Time Period
1786
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
49920 [Accession number]
CHS-49920 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: ARCH-101 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
chs-m15009

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