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Title
Birdseye view of Sonora Town, the first plaza area in Los Angeles, ca.1870
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1870
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
Photograph of a birdseye view of Sonora Town, the first plaza area in Los Angeles, ca.1870. There are several blocks of adobe houses fenced in with low adobe fences and divided by wide dirt roads. The town is bordered on the upper left side by a forested area, and in the upper right corner is a tall, gently sloped mountain. The numer 81 has been scratched onto the image in the middle of a street towards the bottom.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m4912
USC-1-1-1-5010 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-10219
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4912
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-10219.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Los Angeles--Sonora Town--General
Plazas
Cities
Time Period
circa 1870
Place
California
Los Angeles
Sonora Town
USA
Source
1-14-28 [Microfiche number]
10219 [Accession number]
CHS-10219 [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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