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Diorama depicting the 1781 founding of Los Angeles, by artist Joseph Leeland Roop in 1931, at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles

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Title: Diorama depicting the 1781 founding of Los Angeles, by artist Joseph Leeland Roop in 1931, at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles
Alternative Title: Photographs of diorama displays in Natural History Museum
Contributor: Roop, Joseph Leeland, 1862-1932
Date Created and/or Issued: [1931-1989]
1931/1989
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Diorama, created in 1931, showing the founding of Los Angeles, with a native Indian man beginning the construction of the first Los Angeles pueblo home, built of sticks, with 22 adults and 22 children arriving at the desert site, with the Los Angeles River and hills in the distance.
Photo label: The founding of Los Angeles, September 4, 1781. This diorama from the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History shows the founders of Los Angeles, 22 adults and 22 children, arriving at the site for the pueblo. It rightly shows the original pobladores to be of African, Indian and European ancestry.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b01_f10_001a.tif
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Subject: Colonists
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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