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Title: Historical wooden cross, Olvera Street, view 5
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1928
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
The 149-year-old wooden cross was erected at the south end of Olvera Street, the oldest street in the city of Los Angeles, which opened with great festivity as a colorful Mexican marketplace on Easter Sunday (April 20th), 1930.
View 5 - Close-up view of an elaborately hand-carved wooden cross with an inscription that reads, "El Pueblo de Nuestra Sen~ora la Reina de Los Angeles. Felipe de Neve. September Fourth 1781"; this historical cross commemorates the founding of El Pueblo de Los Angeles in 1781.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;14 x 11 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078916
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Adobes-Avila.; N-001-687.5 4x5
CARL0000080127
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/112091
Subject: Crosses--California--Los Angeles
Avila, Francisco
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Olvera Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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