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 a lithograph of Los Angeles, ca.1871. The lithograph shows Los Angeles at an early age where most of the city consists of agricultural land showing orchards and farmland (foreground). Majority of the homes and buildings are clustered closer to the mountains in the background. Images of prominent buildings are layed out in boxes or circles below the main map. Some of the buildings are numbered and the key for the them is at the bottom of the lithograph. Transcription reads: "Churches: 1. Court House, 2. Roman Catholic, 3. Congregational, 4. Episcopal, 5. Methodist Episcopal, 6. Colored, 7. [...] 9. Charitable Inst., 10. Downey Block, 11. Temple Block, 12. Hellman Block, 13. Arcadia Block, 14. Bells Block, 15. [...], 16. [...], 17. Bella Union Hotel, 18. Lafayatte, 19. United States [...], 20. [...], 21.[...], 22. [...], 23. [...], 24. [...], 25. Catholic Cemetery, 26. Jewish, 27. [...]". Legible street labels include: "Alameda Street, East Commercial Street, Los Angeles Street, Main Street, Spring Street, Olive Street, Charity Street, Hope Street, 1st Street, 2nd Street, 3rd Street, 4th Street, 5th Street, 6th Street, 7th Street".
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : transparency, photonegatives, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) transparencies photographs art
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