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Title
West side of Figueroa Street looking south from 23rd Street showing zanja, Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1889
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
Manicured yards and palm trees line Figueroa Street, looking south from 23rd Street, Los Angeles. Shows a zanja (irrigation ditch) that crosses Pershing Square and furnishes irrigation for orange orchards south of Pico Street. Large trees line the sidewalk on one side, lawns on the other. Large houses are visible through the foliage. A driveway over the zanja is in the foreground.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
13 x 20 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m185
USC-1-1-1-186 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-53
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m185
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-53.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Figueroa
Figueroa Street
Irrigation
Streets
Architecture, Domestic
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1889
Place
California
Figueroa Street
23rd Street
Los Angeles
USA
Source
53 [Accession number]
CHS-53 [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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