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Title
Residence of Lucy
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1920
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of residence of Lucy[?] Longstreet on Palm Avenue (Adams Street), Los Angeles, ca.1920. The residential street is lined with tall thick palm trees. Two-story houses are visible behind the trees on both sides of the street. A man is standing in the yard of one to the left. The residence has been mistakenly[?] associated with Confederate General James Longstreet probably based on a letter to the Herald Express (1940 February 5): "About 1875, Confederate General Longstreet acquired the 40 acres on the northeast corner of Figueroa and West Adams streets. He did what was possibly up to that time the most extensive grading job done in Los Angeles. He made a pleasing slope up to where the house was to be built, a slope such as we used to read about in southern love stories. He built a mansion of Southern grandeur and elegance and made the entrance from West Adams, between the palms which he planted, a southern romance. He planted the whole place with orange trees and it became the showplace of Southern California...".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
22 x 17 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m14646
USC-1-1-1-14288 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-767
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14646
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-767.jpg
Subject
Botany--Trees--Palm
Longstreet, Lucy
Trees
Palms
Botany
Residential sites
Time Period
circa 1920
Place
Adams Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
767 [Accession number]
CHS-767 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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