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Title: Poyorena Adobe
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
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: Exterior view of the Eduardo Poyorena, Sr. Adobe, located on the former Rancho Santa Gertrudis in Downey.; According to some accounts, Eduardo Sr., sold the rancho to John Gately Downey to start his city. The title of trust indicates that Downey purchased a parcel of land from Eduardo Poyorena Sr. and lived in the adobe for a short time. In 1892, General Peter Swaine purchased the adobe. Swaine's grandson, Wallace Wiggins, remodeled the adobe increasing its size.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067666
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 28 4x5; Adobes.
CARL0000072818
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2342
Subject: Adobe houses--California--Downey
Dwellings--California--Downey
Rancho Santa Gertrudis (Calif.)
Downey (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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