View of Los Angeles looking north from around Eleventh Street and Main Street, showing William H. Workman's house, 1873

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Title	View of Los Angeles looking north from around Eleventh Street and Main Street, showing William H. Workman's house, 1873
Description	Photograph of a view of Los Angeles looking north from around Eleventh Street and Main Street, showing William (or Billy?) H. Workman's house, 1873. A post-and-rail fence is visible in front of the unpaved road that cuts through the foreground, beyond which a one-story clapboard-sided house can be seen behind a picket fence and featuring a smaller, annexed building. The County Court House is visible in the bulk of the city which appears in the distance. A wider unpaved road is visible to the right, while mountains can be seen on the horizon.
Subject	Workman, William H.
Subject (adlf)	residential sites
Subject (file heading)	Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Domestic -- Main Street
Subject (lcsh)	Dwellings
Geographic subject (roadway)	Main Street & 11th Street
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	1873
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1873
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	3 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) photographs
Contributing entity	California Historical Society
Accession number	7431
Call number	CHS-7431
Microfiche number	1-6-108
Legacy record ID	chs-m2525; USC-1-1-1-2587
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	Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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-7431
Archival file	chs_Volume35/CHS-7431.tiff

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