Image of the ruins of a Machado family adobe with some of the adobe bricks still covered in white plaster, on Rancho La Ballona (present-day Culver City, California). Condition note: White "flaring" seen on the edge of this digital image is present in the original negative. "Machado House"--text, handwritten on negative. Title transcribed from negative; date range approximated by cataloger based on the year that film negatives came into use and the latest known dates indicated for other Hazard images in the Huntington's collection. Machado Ranch, originally granted to Don Ygnacio Machado was known as Rancho La Ballona and consisted of 14,000 acres. A print of this image appears in the Huntington Library's Verne Dyson Collection (mssHM 26404), p. 23 (Box 3) with the caption: "Ruins of the home of Don Ignacio Machado on Rancho La Ballona."
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