Los Angeles, Pacific Railroad Survey Lithograph, 1856

A sepia-toned lithograph view of Los Angeles from a rise, showing low adobe buildings scattered across a flat plain with distant brown hills and a pale sky. Small figures and mounted riders move across the foreground near a squared building on the right, and the printed caption reads Los Angeles below the plate.

Artist

Williamson

Date

1856

Medium

paper (overall materials) ink (overall materials)

Source

Smithsonian (National Museum of American History)

Size

1600 × 1145 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History