Elevated view looking northeast from Fort Moore Hill (also known as Fort Hill) over part of downtown Los Angeles including the Plaza neighborhood known as "Sonora Town" in the foreground, with Buena Vista Street (now North Broadway) partially visible in the foreground, with a two-story house on it near the intersection of Bellevue Avenue (later Sunset Boulevard and now Cesar E. Chavez Avenue). No 3 From Ft Hill, Los Angeles #846"--text, handwritten on verso. "From Depot of Stereoscopic Views, Orders Taken, 16 N. Main St., Los Angeles, Cal." and "John R. Meister, Books, Stationery & Confectionery, 48 N. Spring St., Los Angeles, Cal."--text, stamps on verso. "Views of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Photographed and Published by O.E. Tyler, Address All Orders to P.O. Box 439."--text, printed in margin. Title transcribed from note on verso; date devised by cataloger based on years the photographer was active in Los Angeles (see Barbara Callarman, Photographers of Nineteenth Century Los Angeles County, page 95).
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