Downtown Los Angeles, California, 1900 El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de la Porciúncula, or L.A. for short. Photochrom print by the Detroit Photographic Co., copyrighted 1900.
From the Photochrom Prints Collection at the Library of Congress; [PD] This picture is in the public domain
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