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Title: Stephen Clark Foster, side profile
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Foster came to California as an interpreter for the Mormon Battalion in 1847. Foster served as Mayor of Los Angeles from 1854-1855, and 1856. He created the Office of Water Overseer and used chain gangs for public works. He resigned his office to lead the Vigilante group that hanged the infamous Dave Brown.
Side profile view of Stephen Clark Foster, born in Maine, 1820.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00034044
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Portraits-Foster, Stephen Clark.; BIF-000-113 5x7
CARL0000036655
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/97377
Subject: Foster, Stephen Clark,--1820-1898
Mayors--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs

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