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Image / One-hundred year old live oak tree in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, ca.1888

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Title
One-hundred year old live oak tree in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, ca.1888
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1888
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 one-hundred year old live oak tree in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, ca.1888. A man is sitting on the wooden bench build around the trunk of the tree. A group of people are standing at a covered pen(?) to the right looking at ostriches(?). A wooden rail fence is visible in the background. Hills are in the distant background. The Park consists of 3000 acres.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass plate negative, photoprint, b&w
13 x 21 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m14220
USC-1-1-1-14284 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14220
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33.jpg
Subject
Parks (Griffith)
Botany--Trees--Oak
Los Angeles--Parks--General
Trees
Oak
Botany
Parks
Time Period
circa 1888
Place
California
Los Angeles
parks: Griffith Park
Source
1-82-27 [Microfiche number]
33 [Accession number]
CHS-33 [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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