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 the residence of Judge Charles Silent of the law firm, Houghton, Silent and Campbell, Chester Place, Los Angeles, ca.1920. Looking toward the Doheny residence. The home is also known as Child's residence. The 2-story stately house has a tall tower over the main entry. A large Dracena palm (New Zealand, Cordyline Australis, "Dracena Indiosa of Gardners") growing in the center of the grassy yard dominates this perspective. A man in a hat stands at right near some plants growing beside a low hedge. Silent moved to Los Angeles in about 1886. Photoprint reads "New Zealand".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w 26 x 21 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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