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 the city water reservoir in Plaza, Los Angeles, before 1871. The reservoir building stands at center, featuring arched window filled-in with brick. A wooden frame has been built on top of the building's brick, through which a pole standing at the center and what appear to be wires can be seen attached to the left and right sides of the frame's inside walls. A post-and-rail fence can be seen behind this, beyond which a second, long utility house stands. What appear to be sheds and a factory building of approximately four stories are visible furthest back. Mountains can be seen in the distance. "Father Adam says, 'Where Buena Vista Street is now open, north on the hill, stood a chapel from 1784 to 1812 where a Franciscan friar from San Gabriel said Mass every Sunday and holidays.' The fence about the Plaza was built by the owners of the reservoir at extreme right of the picture. Later they planted the trees and otherwise improved it." -- unknown author. The reservoir was demolished in 1871.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 26 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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