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 view of Fan Palm Avenue as viewed from Adams Boulevard, showing the residence of Lucy[?] Longstreet in the background, ca.1875-1904. The dirt lane of Fan Palm Avenue stretches from the foreground into the left background, lined at both edges with dense rows of fan palm trees. The two-story residence of Longstreet sits at the background of the image, at the end of the dirt road. Picture file card reads "Fan Palm Avenue. Longstreet Place. Same as 62, which is an original negative". The residence has been mistakenly[?] associated with Confederate General James Longstreet probably based on a letter to the Herald Express (1940 February 5): "About 1875, Confederate General Longstreet acquired the 40 acres on the northeast corner of Figueroa and West Adams streets. He did what was possibly up to that time the most extensive grading job done in Los Angeles. He made a pleasing slope up to where the house was to be built, a slope such as we used to read about in southern love stories. He built a mansion of Southern grandeur and elegance and made the entrance from West Adams, between the palms which he planted, a southern romance. He planted the whole place with orange trees and it became the showplace of Southern California...".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
Architecture, Domestic Longstreet, Lucy Los Angeles--Architecture--Domestic--Adams Boulevard Residential sites Roadways
Time Period
circa 1875/1904
Place
-118.27217,34.02996 -118.27133,34.02843 -118.27311,34.0269 -118.27348,34.02899 California Fan Palm Avenue Palm Avenue & Adams Boulevard Los Angeles USA West Adams
Source
1-13- [Microfiche number] 31133 [Accession number] CHS-31133 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] isla id: S-4363 [Identifying number]
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