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Description:: Page x of The Phantom Caballero / An Epic of the Early Days in California / In Sixteen Cantos / By Thomas Shelley Sutton. Poem beginning "Pegasus! Come bear me back along the paths sublime..." With illustrations of a rose and a Mission bell in a bell cote.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Reported by Lee Shippey in “The Lee Side o‘ L. A.,” Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 1936: A4.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Possibly old plan of Los Angeles Plaza, the first one was commissioned in 1781. There have been many changes and other plans since then, and on this one there are annotations English while the majority is in Spanish.
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Diseno (design) map of a rancho land grant (Los Nietos grant) in Mexican California. This grant contained parts of modern day Los Angeles and Orange County. Map is in Spanish.
Date:: March 28, 1822
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Diseno (design) map of a rancho land grant containing Rancho Palos Verdes. Map is in Spanish.
Date:: [circa 1846]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Reported by Lee Shippey in “The Lee Side o‘ L. A.,” Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 1936: A4.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Old map in Spanish of the city of Los Angeles. There are handwritten English annotations that say "2/440--City of Los Angeles, Pueblo Lands...January...54...
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Referenced in more recent article, "Dusting Off the Pages From California's Past," [Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1983]. There is no related article from photograph's time period. This more recent column references the image's subject as part of the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of historical documents. The printed document in the photograph is an original decree establishing Los Angeles as the new capital of the Mexican territory of Alta California. It is signed by then Secretary of the State, Jose Maria Gutierrez de Estrada, on behalf of the interim president of Mexico, Miguel Barragan. The names of other persons, printed in the decree, include: Basilio Arillaga, Deputy President; Antonio Pacheco Leal, President of the Senate; Demetrio del Castillo, Deputy Secretary; and Manuel Miranda, Secretary of the Senate. It is dated May 23, 1935.
Date:: October 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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