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Title: Sanchez adobe in Glendale
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: The adobe was built by Tomas Sanchez, sheriff of L.A. County, in 1849 on Rancho San Rafael land owned by Fernando and Rafaela Verdugo. It stands in a city park and is now furnished with furniture, cooking utensils and other relics of its time.
Exterior view of the Tomas Sanchez adobe, La Casa Adobe de San Rafael, Glendale, in June 1936, following restoration in 1932. The photo shows its Monterey-style corridor (covered porch).
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00060433
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 32; 4x5
CARL0000064413
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2391
Subject: Adobe houses--California--Glendale
Historic sites--California--Glendale
Glendale (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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