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Title: Wilson family portrait
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Wilson served as Mayor of Los Angeles from 1851-1852. Wilson also organized the first Los Angeles police force. President Millard Fillmore appointed him Indian agent and as a result of his experience wrote a history of the Indians of the area. In 1855 and 1869, he was elected to the California Senate. Mount Wilson was named for him.
Portrait of Benjamin Davis Wilson and his family.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00034037
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Portraits-Wilson, Benjamin Davis and Family.; GBIF-000-013 5x7
CARL0000036648
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/97321
Subject: Wilson, Benjamin Davis,--1811-1878
Families--California--Los Angeles
Mayors--California--Los Angeles
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Ingersoll, Luther A

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