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Photographs of Los Angeles Old Chinatown, First Street Bridge, and an unidentified trestle bridge

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Description: Three cabinet photographs of early Los Angeles, California, most likely taken in the1880s. The first is an elevated view of Calle de Los Negros in Old Chinatown by photographer F. G. Schumacher, showing a dirt road, adobe buildings, horse-drawn wagons, and a few people. The second photograph is marked in ink "First St. Bridge," and shows a partially washed-out wooden bridge over the flooded Los Angeles River. A man on horseback and a photographer with a large box camera are on the shore. The third cabinet photograph is of an unidentified railroad trestle bridge spanning a canyon or river.
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Production date: approximately 1880s.
Call number: photPF 26024
Provenance: Gift of Regina Parola-Meyers and Julia Parola-Sim, in honor of Zoe and Rene Parola, January 2023.

Chinatown, Los Angeles

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Elevated view of one-story and two-story adobe buildings in the Old Chinatown neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles, California, with horse-drawn wagons in the dirt courtyard. Presumably the buildings were located near or in the Calle de los Negros (also known as "Nigger Alley").

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"Nigger Alley." North end of Los Angeles Street

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Elevated view of the dirt road, horse-drawn wagons, and storefronts along the Calle de los Negros (also known as "Nigger Alley") in Old Chinatown in Los Angeles, California, with a sign for "J. Kennedy" in the shape of a horseshoe at right.

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Chinese Quarter, Los Angeles

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First Street Bridge

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Color photograph of a mound of trash and debris piled in the concrete wash of the Los Angeles River below the 1st Street Bridge in Los Angeles, California, with graffiti painted on the bridge's supports.

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Photographs of Mission San Diego and old Los Angeles portraits

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Consists of six photographs. Three prints are various views of the Mission San Diego El Campanario, church, and gardens by unidentified photographers. photPF 184 had previously accompanied Alice Harriman's "The Bells of El Camino Real" whose call number is mssHM 66767. The three remaining photographs are one copy print of the city of San Diego, one cabinet card of a Mexican laborer at in an adobe doorway, presumably at Rancho Camulos by Charles F. Lummis, and one cabinet photograph of an unidentified Chinese women posed in a photographer studio by Golsh, Plaza Photograph Gallery.

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Los Angeles, Cal. The Chinese Quarter

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