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 Santa Susanna Pass, east side, Ventura, San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1895. Pass made by Franciscan padres and Indians to complete the road connecting Missions San Fernando and San Buenaventura. Solid stone (or rocks) for the bumpy pass. The terrain is rough with grooves and bumps. Wild grass sprouts from various locations along the path. Picture file card reads: "Fremont crossed into the San Fernando Valley (ca.1846) coming south from Santa Barbara by the Santa Suzanna Pass and in the San Fernando Valley came to the home of Geronimo Lopez (now under Chatsworth Lake) and there inquired where he could encamp his men, before preparing to engage the Californians from Los Angeles. Lopez directed him to the place of Mariano de la Luz Verdugo. This is now the site of Universal City." -- Eugene Plummer.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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