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  McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 292

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  Caption: "Echo Park [sic] Los Angeles," c. 1910. William McCarthy standing on a bridge in Los Angeles' Echo Lake Park. The park opened in 1895. The lake was originally created in 1868 to support the operations of a mill. The mill, however, closed seven years later. The site was later selected for conversion to a city park.

  Date: 1910

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  Cienega de los Paicines Rancho

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  Hand-drawn sketch map of Cienega de los Paicines boundaries. Volume 1, page 778.

  Date: 1840

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  Cañada de los Osos y Pecho y Islae Rancho

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  Hand-drawn sketch map of Cañada de los Osos y Pecho y Islae boundaries. Volume 2, page 143.

  Date: 1843

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  McCarthy Album 01, Photograph 148

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  Caption: "Art Museum - Los Angeles," c. 1915. Located in Exposition Park, the Beaux Arts building, opened in 1913, was originally known as the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art. In 1963, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art moved to its current location on Wilshire Blvd. The Exposition Park facility became the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. After two years of renovation and restoration, it was reopened in 2009.

  Date: 1915