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Title: Adobe on Castelar Street, Sonora Town
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
The part of the city called "Sonora Town" was an old adobe village north of the Plaza and Church of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels. It was Los Angeles' first Mexican quarters, or barrio. The area was named for the numerous miners and families who came from Sonora, Mexico, and may have still been around in the 1930s. Now it is Los Angeles' Chinatown District.
Three men are seen relaxing in front of an adobe house with a low hanging roof, at the corner of Castelar Street in Sonora Town. Several more homes are visible along Castelar, which has a very wide dirt road as far as the eye can see. A horse-drawn carriage is parked along the right side of the street.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078775
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Adobes-Sonora Town.; N-000-048 8x10
CARL0000079986
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111473
Subject: Adobe houses--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Horse-drawn vehicles--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles

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