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Mar 7, 2013 · This image is widely considered the earliest-known photograph of Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of the USC Libraries – California Historical Society Collection. Several historic structures -- most of them long since vanished -- are visible.
Apr 9, 2014 · What we do know is that some day in the late 1850s or early 1860s, a photographer climbed to the top of Fort Moore Hill and turned a camera southeast toward the Los Angeles Plaza. The city was...
Feb 14, 2013 · Earliest-known photo of Los Angeles, circa 1862. The view looks east over the Los Angeles Plaza from atop Fort Moore Hill. Courtesy of the USC Libraries – California Historical Society Collection.
What we do know is that some day in the late 1850s or early 1860s, a photographer climbed to the top of Fort Moore Hill and turned a camera southeast toward the Los Angeles Plaza. Keep reading the full post at KCET.org.
When an anonymous photographer stood atop Fort Moore Hill circa 1862 and took the earliest-known photograph of Los Angeles, he captured a small town -- population 4,385 in 1860 -- within an open countryside.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24 -- In June 2002, the world's first photograph, Joseph Nicephore Niepce's "View from the Window at Le Gras," was moved from The University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Center to the Los Angeles-based Getty Conservation Institute to undergo the first extensive scientific tests since it was taken in 1826.
Jun 27, 2002 · Niepce’s first photograph was lost for almost half a century. It was rediscovered in 1952 by art collector Helmut Gernshiem in the attic of a London home, and brought to the U.S. in 1963 when...
