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

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Description: 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."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1915
Call number: photPF 24894
Provenance: Purchased from Dawsons Book Shop, August 1998.
Dimensions: image 17 x 22 cm, mount 21 x 26 cm
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Photographs of the Southern California Packing Company

Visual Materials

A collection of 36 photographs related to the Southern California Packing Company of Los Angeles, California, and its secretary manager Marion Welsh (or Welch) and his family. Photographs include views of the interior and exterior of the plant located at the corner of Macy Street (now East Cesar E. Chavez Avenue) and Anderson Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood; male, female, and child workers, including two group portraits; various food processing departments depicting fruit, canning, packing, syrup and jelly making and one montage of various departments; railroad freight cars along the Los Angeles River, identified as a special shipment sent east on October 6, 1892; and views of houses occupied by the Welsh family at 930 Macy Street and 114 Anderson Street. There is also single photograph of a row of soldiers standing at attention with rifles (item 28) and a studio portrait of Clyde Welsh as a young man (item 36). Removed mounts for some of the photographs bear printed labels for Putnam, Cromwell & Westervelt, and Coules Palace Studio.

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Sisters of Charity, Los Angeles

Visual Materials

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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View of Los Angeles from Fort Hill

Visual Materials

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.

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Los Angeles Employment Company

Manuscripts

The documents provide insight into the business history and practices of the South Riverside Land and Water Company as well as the Jameson Packing House, which shipped citrus fruit, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

mssSouth Riverside Land and Water Company records

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Los Angeles Lithographic Company

Manuscripts

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Los Angeles Water and Sewer Pipe Company

Manuscripts

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

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