Jose de los Gantos (Gatos?) and Charles Prudhomme standing before a house and a barbed wire fence, ca.1931

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Title	Jose de los Gantos (Gatos?) and Charles Prudhomme standing before a house and a barbed wire fence, ca.1931
Description	Photograph of Jose de los Gantos (Gatos?) and Charles Prudhomme standing before a house and a barbed wire fence, ca.1931. A man with light hair and a thick moustache stands in a suit right of another tanner man in a vest. The two stand before a wire fence, with a house covered with trees behind it.; Accompanying article from September 26, 1934 L.A. Times reads: "Charles J. Prudhomme, 80-year-old historian and guide in the City Hall tower who has told countless interesting stories of early Los Angeles to visitors to the City Hall tower since it was built in 1928, died yesterday. For eighteen years Don Carlos, as he was called by his associates, resided in a room at 741 Central avenue, with only his collection of old documents and other mementoes of old California as companions. Prudhomme was born in 1854 in a tiny adobe house just 300 feet from the southeast corner of the City Hall. His great grandfather was first owner of the vast Malibu rancho, having received it as a grant from Gov. Jose de Arrillaga in 1804. His father was Leon Victor Prudhomme, a Frenchman who came to California as a young man, married Mercedes Tapia and was an active citizen. He was president of the vigilantes of this vicinity in 1836. As a boy Prudhomme attended the second public schoolhouse in Los Angeles. It was erected in 1856 and occupied the southeast corner of North Main and Macy Streets. Prudhomme belonged to the first fire volunteers' organization in Los Angeles, was a member of the pioneer French Benevolent Society, and was historian and curator for Ramona Parlor N.S.G.W.. He leaves no immediate family. Rosary services will be conducted tonight at Reed Brothers chapel, 721 West Washington Street. Final rites are to be tomorrow at 1 p.m. at the Plaza Church".
Subject	Prudhomme, Charles
Subject (file heading)	Prudhomme, Charles J.
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1931
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1931
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
Format (aat)	photographic prints photographs
Accession number	11955
Call number	CHS-11955
Microfiche number	1-90-537
Legacy record ID	chs-m13787; USC-1-1-1-13943
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-11955
Archival file	chs_Volume83/CHS-11955.tiff

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