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Jose Sepulveda, Alcalde of Los Angeles, Photo about 1890
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Sepulveda House on Main Street, Los Angeles
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Eastlake Victorian style Sepulveda House with Mexican business tenants, Vera Lou Importers and Casa Bernal. La Golondrina Mexican Cafe at left is still in business.
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Estate of Juan Sepulveda
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This collection includes 136 items that span 1849 to 1890, but the bulk of the documents relate to the 1850s and 1860s. The material includes the following kinds of documents: depositions, powers of attorney, wills, petitions, notices, agreements, leases, indentures and plats. The documents chiefly deal with the estates and land deals of several citizens of California; some of those significant individuals included in the collection are: Ygnacio Alviso, Anastacio Chavoya, Pablo de la Guerra, Jose Dolores Pacheco, Juan Sepulveda, and Robert Stockton. The collection also includes two maps and one song of San Jose, California.
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Glass negative copy of Mrs. Rudecinda Florencia Sepulveda de Dodson, and Roman de Sepulveda
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Image of brother and sister Roman D. Sepulveda and Rudecinda Florencia Sepulveda de Dodson, members of the Sepulveda family, wearing historic Spanish clothing including a lace dress and mantilla, while aboard a ship next to a life ring marked "California, New York."
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Subseries D. Los Angeles, Cemeteries, Views
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The photographs depict the Calvary Cemetery at Buena Vista and North Broadway, the Fort Hill Cemetery, and the San Gabriel Mission Cemetery; most are dated 1922. A few photographs depict the tomb of Dr. Richard Den, who had served as chief physician and surgeon for Mexican forces in the Mexican American war treating Californios and American prisoners from 1821-1895 and then practiced medicine in Los Angeles; and nearby graves (Items 348-351). Other graves depicted include Maria F. M. De Abila (Item 352); Antonio Coronel, who served as mayor of Los Angeles from 1853-1854 and owned Rancho Los Feliz, now Griffith Park (Items 353-354); and the tombs of Jose Sepulveda and Pio Pico (Items 365-369). Percival's caption for the Garnier burial plot describes its "lovely design/iron fence," and one photograph of Coronel's tomb shows an adjacent oil well (Item 353).
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