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Title
Monument statue of Father Junipero Serra on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Spring Street in Los Angeles
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 Father Junipero Serra monument on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Spring Street in Los Angeles, [s.d.]. The statue consists of a metal version of the padre holding a cross at left and a model of a mission at right. He is wearing the robes of a Franciscan friar. The statue is on top of a concrete pedestal with a metal plaque that reads "Frav(?) Junipero Serra Padre of California Missions 1713-1784 presented to the City of Los Angeles by...". Other legible signs on the buildings in the background include, from left to right, "No right turn", "Rozani", "Coca Cola", "Imported/Domestic liquors", and "Liquor".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m19198
USC-1-1-1-13962 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-10515...-11817
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19198
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-10515.jpg
Subject
Serra, Junipero
Monuments
Place
California
Los Angeles County
Los Angeles
Sunset Boulevard and Spring Street
USA
Source
10515 [Accession number]
CHS-10515; CHS-11817 [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
USC
chs-m265

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