Diorama depicting the 1781 founding of Los Angeles, by artist Joseph Leeland Roop in 1931, at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles

Item Overview

Title

Diorama depicting the 1781 founding of Los Angeles, by artist Joseph Leeland Roop in 1931, at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles

Alternative title

Photographs of diorama displays in Natural History Museum

Artist

Roop, Joseph Leeland, 1862-1932

Date Created

[1931-1989]

Date

1931/1989

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Diorama, created in 1931, showing the founding of Los Angeles, detail view of Africans among the 22 adults and 22 children arriving at the desert site, with the Los Angeles River and hills in the distance.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

dioramas

Subject Geographic

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Colonists