Diorama depicting the 1846 Battle of San Pasqual, by artist Joseph Leeland Roop in 1931, at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles

Item Overview

Title

Diorama depicting the 1846 Battle of San Pasqual, 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 Battle of San Pasqual, which took place in 1846 in San Pasqual Valley in what is not San Diego, California. This battle was a military encounter during the Mexican-American War.

Caption

Photo label: The Battle of San Pascual, Diorama on LA County Museum of Natural Hist.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

dioramas

Subject Geographic

San Diego (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

San Pasqual, Battle of, Calif., 1846