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View of Los Angeles from Fort Hill

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Description: View of the Plaza section of Los Angeles (also called Sonora Town) from below Fort Hill (also known as Fort Moore Hill), looking north down Buena Vista Street (now North Broadway), with a row of children standing in the dirt road and Bellevue Avenue (later Sunset Boulevard and now Cesar E. Chavez Avenue) intersecting from left to right behind them.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1866-1872
Call number: photCL_555_01_230
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Sonora, Los Angeles

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Elevated view of the Plaza district of Los Angeles (also known as Sonora Town) as seen from Fort Hill (also known as Fort Moore Hill), looking north with Buena Vista Street (now North Broadway) at right, and Bellevue Avenue (later Sunset Boulevard and now Cesar E. Chavez Avenue), the first intersecting road below.

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Sonora, Los Angeles

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View of the Plaza district of Los Angeles (also known as Sonora Town) as seen from Fort Hill (also known as Fort Moore Hill), looking north with Buena Vista Street (now North Broadway) at right, and Bellevue Avenue (later Sunset Boulevard and now Cesar E. Chavez Avenue), the first intersecting road below.

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From Hill, Los Angeles

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Elevated view looking northeast from Fort Moore Hill (also known as Fort Hill) over part of downtown Los Angeles including the Plaza neighborhood known as "Sonora Town" in the foreground, with Buena Vista Street (now North Broadway) partially visible in the foreground, with a two-story house on it near the intersection of Bellevue Avenue (later Sunset Boulevard and now Cesar E. Chavez Avenue).

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Sisters of Charity, Los Angeles

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View of the property of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul (also known as the Sisters of Charity) in Los Angeles, California, as seen from across Alameda Street, near Macy Street (now Cesar E. Chavez Avenue), showing the Los Angeles Orphan Asylum and School (initially called the Los Angeles Charitable Institute).

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Fort Hill Villa, N. Broadway, Los Angeles

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View of the two-story Victorian house of Hancock Banning (also known as Fort Hill Villa) at 416 North Broadway on Fort Moore Hill in downtown Los Angeles, California.

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[View of the Cudahy Packing Company alongside the Los Angeles River]

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Exterior view of the Cudahy Packing Company meat-packing facility, alongside the Los Angeles River, on East Macy Street (later renamed Cesar E. Chavez Avenue) in Los Angeles, California, with Sante Fe Railroad boxcars visible and young boy posing in foreground. The main building is painted with the sign: "The Cudahy Packing Company. 'Red Brand' Hams Bacon Lard Etc."

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View of Los Angeles from Fort Hill

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