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Identifier
ov119
Title
Bishop
,
California
.
Blizzard
of
1933
Creator
Black
,
J
.
D
.
(John
David)
,
1893-1960
;
Date Created
1933
Description
Black's
Cash
Store
at the
corner
of
West
Line
Street
and
Main
Street
(called
Black's
Corner)
in
Bishop
,
California
,
after
the
blizzard
of
1933
.
Snow
piled
on
streets
after
blizzard
.
Inscription
on
front
of
photograph
: "
1933
MAIN
STREET
IN
FRONT
OF
BLACK'S
STORE.
"
Printed
on
velox
paper
.
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Historical Background
J
.
D
.
Black
(1893-1960)
owned
"
Black's
Cash
Store
"
begun
circa
1923
.
Bishop
,
California
is
located
in the
northern
end
of the
one
hundred
mile
long
Owens
Valley
and
is
named
after
Samuel
A.
Bishop
,
one
of the
first
Anglo-American
settlers
there
(1861)
.
Originally
known
as
Bishop
Creek
for the
creek
on
which
the
original
settlement
grew
, the
Bishop
Creek
area
provided
beef
and
mutton
for
such
mining
towns
as
Aurora
,
Nevada
, and
Bodie
,
California
. By
1864
,
Bishop
Creek
had a
stage
line
; by
1883
the
Carson
and
Colorado
Railroad
serviced
the
area
. In
1889
,
Bishop
Creek
became
Bishop
,
which
incorporated
in
1903
. The
purchase
of
farm
and
ranch
land
for the
Los
Angeles
Aqueduct
by the
City
of
Los
Angeles
in the
1920s
disrupted
the
local
agrarian
economy
.
Although
agriculture
persisted
,
Bishop's
economy
depended
on
tourism
by the
1930s
,
which
remains
the
economic
mainstay
of the
town
. In
2000
,
Bishop
had a
population
of
3,575
people
.
Type
image
;
Physical Description
1
photograph
:
b&w
;
7
x
12
cm
Institution
Center
for the
Study
of
Los
Angeles
Research
Collection
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Collection Identifier
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3w1022nb
Country of Creation
US
Copyright Status
Public
Domain
Copyright Statement
http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Language
eng
;
Subject (Name)
Black's
Cash
Store
;
Black
,
John
;
Black
,
J
.
D
.
(John
David)
,
1893-1960
;
Subject (Place)
Bishop
(Calif.)
;
Subject (Topic)
Blizzards--California--Bishop
;
Commercial
buildings--California--Bishop
;
General
stores--California--Bishop
;
Form/Genre
Photographs
;
Metacollection Identifier
http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number
J
.
D
.
Black
Papers
,
CSLA-15
,
Series
3
:
Photographs
,
Box
4
,
Sleeve
5
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