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Identifier	ov034
Title	Bishop, California. Fairground
Creator	Unknown;
Date Created	circa 1920
Description	Fairground at Bishop, California. Grandstands at right of photograph; judging tower at left. Automobiles, both parked and proceeding to fairground. Buildings in background. White Mountains are in the background. Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Background	Located in the northern end of the one hundred mile long Owens Valley, Bishop, California, 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 ; 9 x 14 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 (Place)	White Mountains (Calif. and Nev.); Bishop (Calif.);
Subject (Topic)	Automobiles; Fairs--California--Bishop; Buildings--Bishop--California;
Form/Genre	Photographs;
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number	J. D. Black Papers, CSLA-15, Series 3: Photographs, Box 5, Sleeve 16