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Photographs of Historic Los Angeles

Los Angeles in 1857
Broadway at First Street, 1860
Intersection of Main Street and Temple, c1873
Sonora Town, north over Castelan St from Fort Moore Hill, about 1885 (Elysian Hills in background)
Commercial St, from the corner of Main St, about 1870
North Spring St from Sunset Blvd, about 1915
Pueblo of Los Angeles, 1850: photograph of a model
Los Angeles from hill north of Catholic cemetery above Bishop St, about 1873
Plaza Church and plaza with reservoir in center of plaza, about 1869
Main Street south from Pico House, 1874
Ranch in Hollywood, 1896
First train on the Cahuenga Valley Railroad to East Hollywood, c1888
Locomotive of Cahuenga Valley Railroad, 1889
Bean field of Centinela Ranch in Inglewood, 1901
Broadway north from Fourth Street, 1924
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