Image of a man looking at the front steps of the Avila Adobe, the oldest house in Los Angeles on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California. Dried corn and clay pots hang near the stairway, with a sign about the adobe that reads: "The Avila Adobe. This is the oldest and most historic building in Los Angeles. Built in 1818 by Don Francisco Avila it was occupied as American headquarters in 1847. The rooms are furnished in the period of the early California. Olvera Street is the first main thoroughfare of Los Angeles." "Oldest house in Los Angeles, Olvera Street, L.A., Cal. 712"-text, on negative. Title transcribed from negative; date based on note on envelope in which negative was received, presumably indicating the date postcards of the image were created.
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Image
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1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9.7 x 14.3 cm
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