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Order Number	00067655
Title	New High adobes and men, Sonora Town
Collection ID	Works Progress Administration Collection
Location/Accession	WPA 13 4x5
Date	1936
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	Exterior view of adobe houses located at the corner of New High and Ord Streets in Sonora Town. This early form of duplex has two small doorways and two large windows and appears to be abandoned. The history of this adobe is unknown. A man is seen purchasing ice cream from a vendor and his mobile cart in front of the home. The part of the city called "Sonora Town" was an old adobe village north of the Plaza and Church of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels. It was Los Angeles' first Mexican quarters, or barrio. The area was named for the numerous miners and families who came from Sonora, Mexico, and may have still been around in the 1930s. Now it is Los Angeles' Chinatown District. May 29, 1936.
Publisher	Federal Writers' Project.
Subject	Ice cream, ices, etc.--California--Los Angeles. Abandoned houses--California--Los Angeles. Adobe houses--California--Los Angeles. Dwellings--California--Los Angeles. Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles. Sonora Town (Los Angeles, Calif.). Works Progress Administration Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Internal Notes	Additional print in SPNB L.A.-Adobes-Sonora Town folder.
Sub-Collection Name	Works Progress Administration Photo Collection