Sisters Orphan Home, Boyle Heights, ca.1950

Description

Photograph of the Sisters Orphan Home (Los Angeles Orphanage), Boyle Heights, Seventh Street and Boyle Avenue, cornerstone laid 9 February 1890. The 4-story Romanesque stone building is surrounded by fields in which grow trees, grass and other plants. A tall bell tower with a stone cross on top towers over the main entry. A set of broad stairs supply an additional entry at left. A woman(?) is standing near the dirt road which passes in front of the building. "Please credit Title Insurance and Trust Company (Los Angeles), Collection of Historical Photographs" -- stamped on verso.
Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

Title:

Record ID:

examiner-m2800

Names & Dates

Created:

[circa] 1950-08-04

Publisher:

[host] University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject

Topic:

[file heading] Los Angeles -- City -- Orphanages -- Los Angeles Orphanage (buildings only)

Coverage:

[circa] 1950-08-04

Place:

[roadways] 7th Avenue & Boyle Avenue
[manmade features] Los Angeles Orphanage Home
[populated places] Boyle Heights
[cities] Los Angeles
[counties] Los Angeles
[states/provinces] California
[countries] USA

Relationships

Part Of:

[collection] Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961

Physical

Type:

images

Format:

photographic prints
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
photographs

Access

Rights:

Public domain

Repository:

USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu
specol@usc.edu

Ordering:

Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu; phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343

Identifiers

Record ID:

examiner-m2800

Source:

[bar code] 3-1275-02805-6100
[accession no] 2456
[print box] Subjects 316
[file name] EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-ORP-046