Visual Materials

Los Angeles, Cal. : looking south-west to Pacific Ocean

Description: From essentially over Elysian Park looking south to Palos Verdes and beyond to Catalina Island. To the south-east to Santa Ana and Tustin in the distance. Vignettes: Important buildings and homes. Sticker: BV/ L-2. MS note: 564/6. Vignettes: Important buildings and homes. Sticker: BV/ L-2 MS note: 564/6. Prime meridian: GM. Projection: Birds-eye view. Printing Process: Lithography. Other Features: Vignettes.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1887
Call number: ephBEV L-2
Find out more: View in the Huntington Digital Library(Opens in new tab)

Los Angeles, Cal. 1873

Additional Formats

View looking north from the intersection of Main & Broadway. "Los Angeles gives it's name to the valley in which it is located, and where it occupies a charming location, nestling amidst orange groves and vineyards. The Coast Range with it's accompanying valleys here form a panoramic view of rare beauty." Sticker: BV/ S-2. Sticker: BV/ S-2. Prime meridian: GM. Projection: Birds-eye view. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: 564/5a.

BV/ S-2

Glendora Los Angeles County California

Rare Books

A fine birds-eye view, badly cropped top and bottom. Description reads, "A sunny Foot hills Glen at the foot of the Sierra Madre Mountains Altitude 1000 feet with an unobstructed outlet to the Pacific. Frostless and practically fogless the Home of Citrus Fruits. Pure Mountain Spring Water now piped to every lot." [rest missing] Vignettes of homes and businesses in surround. Vignettes: Homes and businesses. "25 miles east from Los Angeles - on the Cal. Central R.R. (The Pacific Trunk of the Atcheson, Topeka & Santa Fe System) " Relief: pictorial. Projection: Birds-eye view. Printing Process: Lithography. Other Features: Vignettes. Verso Text: MS note: Glendora Sticker: 27.

150199

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Cal

Additional Formats

A famous view of Los Angeles looking north from the location of the present day 101 Freeway with the plaza church in the left background and many well known buildings in the surround. Sticker: B-V/ M-8. Sticker: B-V/ M-8. Prime meridian: GM. Projection: Birds-eye view. Printing Process: Lithography.

BV/ M-8

Birds Eye View of Alosta [Glendora], Los Angeles Co. Cal. Jan 1888

Rare Books

Birds-eye view with building close-ups. Vignettes: Views of eight buildings in surround.. "E. S. Moore, Artist " Relief: pictorial. Projection: Birdseye view. Printing Process: Lithography. Other Features: Vignettes. Verso Text: MS note: 217300.

217300

Los Angeles, California, 1894

Rare Books

Two bird's-eye views in one, drawn from an electric power house at Wilder & Central. The upper view looking north, bottom view south to the harbor. Vignettes: Important building and key in lower section. Vignettes: Important building and key in lower section.. Prime meridian: GM. Projection: Birds-eye view. Printing Process: Lithography. Other Features: Vignettes.

152149

Ocean view looking south west from the residence of S. P. Pharis, Pharis District, San Mateo Co. Cal

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated landscape view of the residence of Sheldon Purdy Pharis (born 1828) in San Mateo County, California, showing farmers harvesting hay with horse drawn carts, and rolling hills and the Pacific Ocean in the distance; four corner vignettes of forested areas showing a lumber mill, wooded trails, a mineral spring, and view of the residence.

priJLC_VIEW_000635

Los Angeles, Cal. : looking south-west to Pacific Ocean

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Los Angeles, Cal. 1873

Glendora Los Angeles County California

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Cal

Birds Eye View of Alosta [Glendora], Los Angeles Co. Cal. Jan 1888

Los Angeles, California, 1894

Ocean view looking south west from the residence of S. P. Pharis, Pharis District, San Mateo Co. Cal