Painting of Jose Cesario Moreno and his wife Maria Guadalupe Gertrudis Perez, 1781 founders of Los Angeles

Title: Painting of Jose Cesario Moreno and his wife Maria Guadalupe Gertrudis Perez, 1781 founders of Los Angeles
Alternative title: Jose and Maria Guadalupe Moreno, founders of Los Angeles of African descent, and their descendants.
Date Created: [circa 1930-1989]
Date: 1930/1989
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description: Jose Cesario Moreno and his wife Maria Guadalupe Gertrudis Perez were from Real del Rosario, Sinaloa. They were among 12 families from Rosario recruited in 1781 to settle in Los Angeles. Moreno served as a Los Angeles Regidor; he is buried at Mission San Gabriel.
Painting of Jose and Maria Guadalupe Moreno on horseback at the LA County Museum of Natural History.
Caption: Photo label: Jose Moreno, mulatto, and his wife Maria Guadalupe, Milata, founders of Los Angeles / From a painting by an artist at the L.A. County Museum of Natural History.

Genre: paintings
Names: Moreno, Jose Cesario, 1757-1806
Perez, Maria Guadalupe Gertrudis, 1762-1860
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Colonists