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1835 Mexican decree establishing Los Angeles as capital of Alta California, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: 1835 Mexican decree establishing Los Angeles as capital of Alta California, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: October 7, 1935
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Referenced in more recent article, "Dusting Off the Pages From California's Past," [Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1983]. There is no related article from photograph's time period. This more recent column references the image's subject as part of the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of historical documents. The printed document in the photograph is an original decree establishing Los Angeles as the new capital of the Mexican territory of Alta California. It is signed by then Secretary of the State, Jose Maria Gutierrez de Estrada, on behalf of the interim president of Mexico, Miguel Barragan. The names of other persons, printed in the decree, include: Basilio Arillaga, Deputy President; Antonio Pacheco Leal, President of the Senate; Demetrio del Castillo, Deputy Secretary; and Manuel Miranda, Secretary of the Senate. It is dated May 23, 1935.
Displayed, a 1935 photograph of a one-page paper document printed in Spanish with the header, Primera Secretaria de Estado. Departamento Del Interior. At top and bottom margins are later handwritten notations and a signature.
Handwritten on nitrate negative: Historical Mexican Document, 10-7-1935
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2559--, Historical Mexican Document, Copy., 10-7-35, [STAMPED:] OCT 23 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9020
ark:/21198/zz002dh0w7
Language: Spanish
Subject: Laws--Mexico
Legal
California--history
Leal, Antonio Pacheco
Barragán, Miguel, 1789-1836
Arrillaga, Basilio
Miranda, Manuel
Castillo, Demetrio del
Estrada, José María Gutiérrez de, 1800-1867
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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