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Title
Drawing depicting Sonora Town, the first plaza area in Los Angeles, east from Fort Hill, ca.1887
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1887
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 drawing depicting Sonora Town, the first plaza area in Los Angeles, east from Fort Hill, ca.1887. A broad street runs away from the camera at right, and another is visible behind buildings at left. The town is composed mostly of small houses, and a tall two-story structure is visible in the distance at left. A plaza surrounded by long buildings is in the foreground at center. There are many trees mixed in with the buildings, and a line of hills is in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m4931
USC-1-1-1-5029 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11951
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4931
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11951.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Los Angeles--Sonora Town--General
Plazas
Cities
Time Period
circa 1887
Place
California
Los Angeles
Sonora Town
USA
Source
1-15- [Microfiche number]
11951 [Accession number]
CHS-11951 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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