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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a portrait of the Los Angeles pioneer, William Wolfskill, shown in a half-tone print, ca.1831. From the chest up. In an oval cutout. His hair is parted on his left. He has long sideburns. He is wearing a 3-piece suit. "A trapper from Kentucky, he was married into the Lugo family. In 1841 he planted an orange orchard of two acres where the Southern Pacific station stands at Fifth and Alameda, [Los Angeles]. 20 years later he had 100 acres of oranges and was the father of that industry in California. -- Before locating in Los Angeles he traded with the Indians. His wife was Magdalena Lugo, daughter of Jose Ygnacio Lugo of Santa Barbara, brother of Anonia Maria Lugo."
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w 25 x 20 cm., 18 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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