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Title
Workman-Rowland City Hall plaque
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1941
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Descendants of William Workman and John Rowland, pioneers who led the first American families to Southern California 100 years before November 5, 1941, are shown at the City Hall unveiling of a bronze plaque as a tribute to the families. Left to right, Mayor Fletcher Bowron, Boyle Workman, grandnephew of William Workman, David Workman, 11, who unveiled the plaque, and Richard Workman, great grandsons of William Workman; Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz, and Mrs. Lillian Dibble, granddaughter of John Rowland.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00057044
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1786
CARL0000060753
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22164
Subject
Families--California--Los Angeles
Plaques, plaquettes--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Workman, William,1799-1876
Rowland, John,1791-1873

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