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Old home of Governor Pio Pico Los Angeles, Cal

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Description: View of an adobe building on New High Street at the intersection with Republic at the base of Fort Moore Hill (also known as Fort Hill) in the Plaza neighborhood (also called Sonora Town) of downtown Los Angeles, California, on New High Street. The Banning mansion visible at the top and a sign reading "Herald" can be seen at lower right.
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Date: not before 1886
Call number: photCL_555_01_253
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Angels Flight, Los Angeles, Cal

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Image of the Angels Flight incline railway, with a car visible at the bottom of the tracks, as seen from the intersection of Hill Street and Third Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with residences of Bunker Hill, including the three-story Crocker Mansion at top, visible at left, and the Third Street Tunnel at center and a sightseeing tower above.

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Fort Hill, Los Angeles

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View looking northwest towards Fort Moore Hill (also known as Fort Hill) in downtown Los Angeles, California, with the Downey Block building on Main Street in the foreground with the partially obscured sign "Crystal Palace Crockery, China Ware" and a sign in the window "J.W. Stump Law Office." The First Congregational Church is visible on New High Street with the Kimball Mansion directly to its right.

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Los Angeles, No. 12

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Elevated view looking southwest from Poundcake Hill towards Fort Street (now South Broadway) in downtown Los Angeles, California. A two-story brick building (visible at center left) sits on the southwest corner of Fort Street, at the intersection with First Street. Hill Street is parallel to Fort Street partway up the hillside, passing in front of the houses at upper middle left.

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Part of Los Angeles looking south-east from Fort Hill

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Viewing looking southeast from Fort Moore Hill (also called Fort Hill) in downtown Los Angeles, California, with the Baker Building (with towers) on Main Street at the intersection with Arcadia Street visible in the foreground.

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Los Angeles, No. 7

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Elevated view of downtown Los Angeles, California, focused on the Spring Street face of the three-story Italianate Temple Block building at the intersection of Main Street and Spring Street; in the background a two-story building, the Lanfranco building, with the sign "El Dorado Store" is visible (listed at 76 Main Street in an 1873 advertisement in the Los Angeles Herald). New High Street is visible in the foreground with houses including a yard with laundry drying on a clothesline in a yard behind a fence in the foreground has handwritten signs "Fishing tackle of Liddle & Kaeding 538 Wash. St., SF" and "Dr. J.C. Young Cures All Chronic Diseases 618 Sac St. S.F."

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Panorama of Los Angeles, section 4

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Elevated view of downtown Los Angeles, California, as seen looking east from Poundcake Hill and focused on the multi-story commercial buildings on the block of Spring Street between the intersection of Spring and Main Street (not visible, at left) to Market Street (not visible, at right), including the three-story Italianate Temple Block building located at the intersection of Main Street and Spring Street and the Louis Lewin & Co. storefront, with partially visible sign near center (14 Spring Street). New High Street is visible in the foreground with houses including a yard with laundry drying on a clothesline in a yard behind a fence in the foreground has handwritten signs "Fishing tackle of Liddle & Kaeding 538 Wash. St., SF" and "Dr. J.C. Young Cures All Chronic Diseases 618 Sac St. S.F."

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Old home of Governor Pio Pico Los Angeles, Cal

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