| Researchers may view the collection by
appointment only, Monday through Friday, 8am-5pm. Monument
policy requires that individuals or groups who purchase
photographs must obtain use permission from the legal
owner of the photograph and properly credit the owner
in any publication or public display that features the
photograph. For further information and appointments call Suellen Cheng or Mariann Gatto at (213) 485-8437.
El Pueblo Monument has over ten thousand photographs in
its collection, divided into three hundred separate categories.
About 80% of the collection are 8”x10” black
and white prints, of which 50% are copies that were obtained
from other historical repositories, such as the Seaver Center
for Western History Research, The Huntington Library, the
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, and UCLA
and USC Special Collections. Most of these photographs concern
the early history of Los Angeles, which was centered at
the Plaza, beginning with the earliest known photographs
of the city in the early 1860s. The majority of the photographs
owned by El Pueblo Monument concern the history of Olvera
Street, the Mexican marketplace that was founded in 1930,
and its traditional-yearly events, such as the Blessing
of the Animals, Cinco de Mayo, Las Posadas, and Mexican
Independence Day. The collection also contains photographs
of various communities who were located at the Plaza during
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
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