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Old Posted Mar 3, 2012, 7:01 PM
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Originally Posted by rcarlton View Post
Photograph of the Sisters Orphan Home (Los Angeles Orphanage), Boyle Heights, Seventh Street and Boyle Avenue, cornerstone laid 9 February 1890. The 4-story Romanesque stone building is surrounded by fields in which grow trees, grass and other plants. A tall bell tower with a stone cross on top towers over the main entry. A set of broad stairs supply an additional entry at left. A woman(?) is standing near the dirt road which passes in front of the building. "Please credit Title Insurance and Trust Company (Los Angeles), Collection of Historical Photographs" -- stamped on verso.

ca. 1950 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...T-ORP-046?v=hr

I think that shot must be a bit earlier than 1950... & here's e_r's additional shot of it: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...8&postcount=91
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