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Bishop, California. Fairground
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Description
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
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