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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: January 9, 2014
Caption: Anza Expedition of 1776 Marker (English)
Additional Description: Captions: Historians believe this photo shows the site’s now vanished 1821 adobe. You can see where this small house of clay bricks once stood in the park’s Historic Core. Photo from The Story of Rancho San Antonio, Daisy Williamson de Veer, The background shows the original hand-drawn map of the Peraltas’ Rancho San Antonio. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library. (bottom left); This image, entitled “Landowner and Foreman” (Hacendero y mayordomo), illustrates the dress and postures of distinct social classes in California during the rancho era. Californio landowners and a foreman (far right) painted by Carl Nebel, published in Voyage pittoreque et archéolgique dans la partie la plus intéressante du Méxique, 1836. (top right); Antonio Peralta descendant Ken Talken with photos of his great-great-grandfather Antonio Peralta Jr. and Peralta Jr.’s sons, who once lived in the later 1840 adobe, and Ken’s great-great-grandmother Toñita Peralta. (bottom right).
Submitted: January 18, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p264681
File Size: 3.660 Megabytes

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