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Title
Toberman homestead on Pico Boulevard, showing an "avenue of Century plants", ca,1886
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1886
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 a row of century plants (Agave Americana) which line the entrance to the Toberman homestead on the south side of west Pico Boulevard between Union Avenue and Figueroa Street, Los Angeles. The dwelling is visible at the end of the lane and is surrounded by a low picket fence.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
13 x 20 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m694
USC-1-1-1-695 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-120
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m694
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-120.jpg
Subject
Dwellings
Cactus
Los Angeles--Streets--Pico Boulevard
Plants
Cultivated Flowers
Los Angeles--Historical
Botany--Agave (Century plant)
Residential sites
Time Period
circa 1886
Place
California
Los Angeles
Pico Boulevard between Union Avenue and Figueroa Street
USA
Source
1-82-14 [Microfiche number]
120 [Accession number]
CHS-120 [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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