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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a view of the first house in Alhambra on north Granada Avenue, [s.d.]. The home, built by the Wallace family in 1878 with lumber hauled from Mount Wilson by oxen, is pictured just to the right of center, surrounded by a picket fence on the outside of which a man can be seen leaning. Farther back, the wooden cabin can be seen behind some tree foliage, the silhouettes of three children visible ot the right of it. Caption reads: "Ten acres was bought for $1,000. Same property now valued at $10,000 per acre".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm., 13 x 18 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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