Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Elevated view from Fort Moore Hill (also known as Fort Hill) looking east towards the Los Angeles Plaza, with the three-story Pico House, at right, and the bell tower of the Plaza Church, at left, among the visible buildings.
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Visual Materials
View of the Los Angeles Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, California, in the foreground behind an iron fence, with a row of buildings, beyond, including the Lugo House obscured by a tree, and storefronts, some with signs for a shoemaker, and the L.A. City Water Co. A man stands on a walkway near a fountain in the landscaped plaza with a hose watering the lawn and plants.
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Visual Materials
Elevated view of one-story adobe buildings that comprised the Ocampo Plaza, with horse-drawn wagons in the dirt plaza, located east of the Los Angeles Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, California, with a grove of orange trees visible in the background.
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Visual Materials
Cabinet card photographs of the Los Angeles Plaza and surrounding buildings, 1887 and 1893, including one with handwriting saying it was the view from the Wills mansion. Two photographs of the home of John Alexander Wills (1819-1891), 501 Buena Vista Street, Los Angeles. Also recorded as 501 Justicia Street. Madeline F. Wills is standing in front of the mansion. Other photographs: Col. William W. Hollister's house "Glen Annie" in Santa Barbara; Catalina Island bath houses and beach, 1890s; and portraits of John B. Coulston, John Wemple Searles, and Dennis Searles (last two are copy prints).
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Visual Materials
Watkins New Series #4374 The Cape House Restaurant and Hotel is visible in the background.
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Manuscripts
A view from the Bram building of the Plaza in downtown Los Angeles looking north and east, Lugo Adobe visible across from the Plaza.
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