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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of adobe under pepper trees in Sonora Town, ca.1887-1888. An adobe on New High Street is juxtaposed to the mansions on a hill, peeking through in the distance. The home of P. McFadden who started the Los Angeles water system can be seen in the foreground at left the adobe at right was home of Marie Jesus Ybarra. The large Victorian style house on hill in distance at left was built by J.W. Robinson it sat on a hill to the north of the present Sunset Boulevard, and west of the present Hill Street. The A woman and child are standing next to the most prominent tree in the foreground. The trees are pepper trees.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 12.5 x 20.5 cm., 20 x 25 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
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