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Title: At San Pedro Post, [Los Angeles] Cal[iforni]a
Creator: Alden, James Madison (1834-1922), American, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1855
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Simple, one story buildings grouped at left and right, US flag flying above one of them; animal hides dry in center. Set in flat, treeless terrain with hill in distance.
Handwritten title (LL). Signature and date (LL, within image): J.M. Alden, 1855. Signature (LR): J.M. Alden. Handwritten (on verso): Alexander & Banning's/at San Pedro, Cal[iforni]a/Oct[ober] 1855/J.M. Alden, "Ewing". Drawing was probably executed during U.S. Coast Survey by the hydrographic party under the command of Lieutenant Commander James Alden, U.S.N. Assistant.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: pencil 21.8 x 36.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf096nb2p2
BANC PIC 1963.002:0232--A
Subject: Buildings
California, Southern
Expeditions & surveys
Los Angeles region (Calif.)
Military facilities

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