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Highway 395, Bishop, California

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Title	Highway 395, Bishop, California
Creator	Porter, Merle
Date Range	circa 1965-1975
Description	View of street intersections on Highway 395/Main Street and West Line Street in Bishop, looking northeast toward stores, restaurants, and markets near Church Street.
Note	On back: "Bishop, California. Bishop was named for Samuel Bishop who built two small cabins on the creek in August of 1881. Bishop stayed in the valley for only one year as he had trouble with the local Indians. The first structure in present Bishop was a building moved here from Owensville in late 1864 and used as a blacksmith shop. The first church on the eastern Sierras was one started by Rev. Andrew Clark in 1869 and was known as Gospel Swamp because the land was swampy. Today Bishop is the sport center of the Eastern Sierra Country..M.P. C-283 Photo-color by Merle Porter."
Physical Description	9 x 14 cm
Genre	Postcards
Subject	Streets--California--Bishop; Stores & shops--California--Bishop; Business districts; Automobiles; Storefronts; Restaurants; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
Geographic Location	Bishop (Calif.); Inyo County (Calif.); Owens Valley (Calif.)
Publisher	Royal Pictures, Colton, California
Repository	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Collection Title	Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
Identifier	sc_wbpc000210001
Object Identifier	sc_wbpc00021
Copyright	http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/#d.en.3004
Sponsor	Support provided by the Metabolic Studio.
Type	Image
Format	image/tiff
Language	eng

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Repository	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Collection Title	Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
Identifier	sc_wbpc000210001
Object Identifier	sc_wbpc00021
Copyright	http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/#d.en.3004
Sponsor	Support provided by the Metabolic Studio.
Type	Image
Format	image/tiff

Highway 395, Bishop, California

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Highway 395, Bishop, California