This project is made possible, in part, by a grant from the California Council for the Humanities in partnership with the Skirball Foundation, through the jointly supported California Documentary Project, a program of the California Stories Initiative.

Photographic & Postcards Images Acknowledgements: • The Huntington Library, San Marino, California • La Plaza History Society & Archive, Los Angeles, California • Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley • California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento • Seaver Center for Western History Research, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles • Collection of William Deverell, Pasadena, California • Archivo Práxedis, Los Angeles, California. All rights reserved by the copyright holders. No reproduction without permission.

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Winner of the Martin Ridge Award from the  Historical Society of Southern California, William Deverell’s critically-acclaimed book Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past serves as the basis for the documentary series by the same name.