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Description
Photographic portrait of La Primavera, Dona Trinidad de Ortega, [s.d.]. Ortega is shown from her upper torso to her head and is staring at the camera. She is wearing a dark dress with a lightly-colored lace collar. Her dark hair is parted at center and is tied behind her head. She was born in San Diego in August, 1832, and died in Santa Barbara on September 17, 1903. She was the daughter of Jose de Ortega and great-granddaughter of the Pathfinder, Jose Francisco de Ortega. She married Miguel Carlos Francisco Maria de la Guerra. Such was the beauty and grace of Dona Trinidad that don Antonio Caronel and Don Benito Wilson, comparing her to the springtime, christened a street in Los Angeles--La Primavera--in her honor. When the Americans came they Anglicanized the name, which became Spring Street.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 26 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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