View of the Plaza section of Los Angeles (also called Sonora Town) from below Fort Hill (also known as Fort Moore Hill), looking north down Buena Vista Street (now North Broadway), with a row of children standing in the dirt road and Bellevue Avenue (later Sunset Boulevard and now Cesar E. Chavez Avenue) intersecting from left to right behind them. Later print of an original photograph by William Godfrey. "Photo by Godfrey"--text on image. Title devised by cataloger. Date approximated by cataloger based on general dates provided for stereographs by Godfrey in Frank Q. Newton, Jr., "William M. Godfrey, Early California Photographer, 1825-1900" The Branding Iron, Summer 1992, p. 7).
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