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Title
Painting of the Plaza Church, Los Angeles, 1857
Date Created and/or Issued
1857
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 painting of the Plaza Church, Los Angeles, 1857. The church can be seen at center, with its entrance visible at left. Trees and a picket fence can be seen in front of the building. A man riding a horse is visible in front of the fence to the right of center. What appears to be a portion of the roof of a building can be seen in the extreme right foreground, while a bush or shadows of foliage can be seen in the extreme left foreground. A mountain is depicted in the background. Back of photoprint reads "See # 1863".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m3855
USC-1-1-1-3942 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-44556
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3855
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-44556.jpg
Subject
Churches, Catholic
Los Angeles--Plaza #4--Architecture--Churches--Plaza Church--1 of 2
Plaza Church
Religious facilities
Time Period
1857
Place
California
Los Angeles
Main Street
USA
Source
44556 [Accession number]
CHS-44556 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 40710 [Identifying number]
Relation
BIBLA
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
chs-m265

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