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Identifier	ov120
Title	Bishop, California. Blizzard of 1933
Creator	Unknown;
Date Created	1933
Description	Horse-drawn sled, with groceries and two children and one woman. In the background are a tire store, telephone lines and poles, and the Old Bishop Grade School, which was located at West Line and Warren Streets. Inscription on bottom front of photograph: "Old Time Horse Sled--With Black's Grocery." Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Background	In the aftermath of the blizzard of 1933, Black's Cash Store, ie, "Grocery" used a sled either to deliver or to obtain groceries. J. D. Black (1893-1960) owned "Black's Cash Store" begun circa 1923. Located in the northern end of the one hundred mile long Owens Valley, Bishop 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 remainsl 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/dlp/copyright.htm
Language	eng;
Subject (Name)	Black's Cash Store (Bishop, Calif.); Black, John; Black, J. D. (John David), 1893-1960;
Subject (Place)	Bishop (Calif.);
Subject (Topic)	Blizzards--California--Bishop; Horse-drawn vehicles; Horses; Commercial buildings--California--Bishop; School Buildings--California--Bishop; Sleds and Sleighs;
Form/Genre	Photographs;
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number	J. D. Black Papers, CSLA-15, Series 3: Photographs, Box 4, Sleeve 8

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