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Title
African American men on a street in Sonora Town, by C. C. Pierce, Los Angeles, 1888
Alternative Title
Early Los Angeles buildings and maps (photographs)
Contributor
Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
[circa 1888]
1888
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description
A group of African American men standing in front of the newly opened Magnolia Saloon, owned by Robert Stewart, located on the corner of New High and Marchessault Street in “Sonoratown”. All of the buildings lining the street are adobe or wood. A wagon is parked across New High Street near a laundry. Two large trees shade that side of the street near a picket fence. The J.W. Robinson Mansion is visible on the left overlooking Castelar and Bellevue (Sunset Boulevard).
Type
image
Identifier
uclalsc_1889_b03_f10_006a.tif
ark:/21198/z1dn5p3p
Subject
Adobe buildings
Bars (Drinking establishments)
Commercial streets
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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