7/8/2023 0 Comments Founding fathers ellisWe cannot help but point out that many, living in Los Angeles today, look much like the founders of the city. L.A.’s founders were perhaps the most ethnically diverse group of founders for any major city in America. The rest are multiracial combinations of white, black and indigenous. Here, there are 22 adults and 22 children. The result is this collage of 44 faces offering a conceptive portrayal of what the city’s founders may have looked like. We matched their demographics with images of similar contemporary Mexicans. Although we cannot know specifically what they looked like, we do have a record of their names, origin, age, sex, and racial make-up (see table below). To honor the founding of Los Angeles (September 4, 1781), we “put a face” on the 44 people who founded what was originally a tiny farming village. PUTTING A FACE ON THE FOUNDERS OF LOS ANGELES Whatever Happened to the Original Settlers?.Courtesy of the California Historical Society & USC Library. Court & Vital Records from Orange County, CAĮl Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles, 1781.
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