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Title
Girl points to the Battle of La Mesa marker at the Los Angeles Union Stockyards, Los Angeles, [1926-1939]
Date Created and/or Issued
[1926-1939]
1926/1939
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The monument was erected 1926 by Native Sons of the Golden West, Historical Society of Southern California, Union Pacific Railroad and Los Angeles Union Stock Yards. (Marker Number 167.). The markers were later moved .to the intersection of Santa Fe Avenue and E. Vernon Avenue, on the right when traveling south on S. Santa Fe Avenue.
Girl sitting on a rock pointing to two plaques on another rock. The plaques commemorate the Battle of La Mesa.
Handwritten on negative: L.A. Stockyards
Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES STOCKYARDS.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5930
ark:/21198/zz002cw23t
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Stockyards--California--Los Angeles
Plaques--California--Los Angeles
La Mesa, Battle of, Calif., 1847
Los Angeles Union Stock Yard (Calif.)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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