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Title
Casa de Adobe, exterior
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1939
Publication Information
Federal Writers' Project.; Hispanic Society of California
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Rear exterior view of Casa de Adobe, located below the Southwest Museum at 4605 N. Figueroa Street. It was completed in 1918 by the Hispanic Society of California and donated to the museum in 1925. Modeled after the San Diego County landmark, Rancho Guajome, a pre-1850s Spanish California rancho, the Casa was designed by the office of architect Theodore Eisen and constructed in the traditional manner by local adobe craftsmen. July 18, 1939.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00069062
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 2062 4x5
CARL0000072966
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2971
Subject
Casa de Adobe (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Southwest Museum of the American Indian
Adobe houses--California--Los Angeles
Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Spanish influences
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Eisen, Theodore

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