1. The Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art Allison Park Cultural beginnings in Los Angeles:

3. How did Agricultural Park become Exposition Park? What led to the founding of the museum and what goals and ambitions did the founders have in mind when they started the museum? Who was William M. Bowen and why was he involved? What filled the museum originally? How did the community and local community groups contribute to the museum? How was the museum received? What else was going on in Los Angeles at the time? In what kind of an environment was the museum founded? Research Questions

4. Primary Historical Los Angeles Times Photographs Minutes Ephemera Visiting the building Southern California Quarterly Histories of Los Angeles Dissertation Southern California Quarterly Sources Secondary

5. Early Los Angeles

6. Population Boom Industry A developing city

7. Population, Los Angeles County 1860-1900 1876 Southern Pacific Railroad arrives in Los Angeles 1885 Santa Fe Railroad arrives in Los Angeles

8. Health seekers Job seekers Warm weather seekers The people who came Aerial view of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, showing Rogers Airport, 1920 Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Archive ©2004, California Historical Society

9. Population boom Industry Reform A developing city

10. “Protestant Eden” Education, beautification Good Government Alliance Advocated abolishing saloons and gambling Advocated “purity of elections” Reformers

11. Population boom Industry Reform Cultural Institutions and Universities A developing city

12. Cultural Institutions and Universities 1888 Ruskin Art Club 1887 Hazard’s Pavilion 1894 First permanent display space for paintings 1895 Society of Fine Arts of California 1897 Los Angeles Symphony 1880 University of Southern California 1887 Occidental College 1887 Pomona College 1887 Los Angeles School of Art and Design 1891 California Institute of Technology 1906 Los Angeles Art Institute

13. Population boom Industry Reform Cultural Institutions and Universities Technological Progress A developing city

14. 1882 First electric street light 1883 First city to be lit solely by electric street lights 1886 street railways 1887 First electric railway 1890 Interurban railway 1904 Mt. Wilson Observatory 1910 International Air Meet 1913 Los Angeles Aqueduct Technological Progress

15. From Agricultural Park to Exposition Park

17. Gambling

18. Saloons

19. “Plague spot”

20. “A detriment to young people”

21. “Demoralizing”

23. Lawyer

24. City Councilman

26. The County Museum

28. Historical Society of Southern California

29. Fine Arts League

30. Southern Division of the Cooper Ornithological Club

31. Southern California Academy of Sciences “. . . a Historical Museum and Art Gallery for the purpose of collecting and exhibitingtherein a collection of fine arts, specimens, and data of biology and zoology, and historical matter relative to the Pacific Coast, more particularly Southern California, with a view of promoting and encouraging scientific art and historical education and investigation.” 1910

32. First exhibits“The plan is to have every county represented, without reference to size, population or wealth.” 175 donations, 35 loaned collections 250 borrowed paintings: old masters, 19th Century works, contemporary works by New York artists Inca pottery Photographs of pioneers of Southern California Native American items Oriental art Los Angeles Ceramic Club Rare old books Aeronautics Fossils from the La Brea tar pits Birds, bird nests, bird eggs, fish Big game Butterflies, moths, beetles Shells Botanical and mineral specimens Society of Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis Artifacts from the Pacific Islands Commissioned statuary by local artist Julia Bracken Wendt

33. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Archive ©2004, California Historical Society

34. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Archive ©2004, California Historical Society “I have found approval in unlooked-for quarters, and have been ably seconded by public-spirited citizens here and elsewhere. . . . . We want the attractions of the park itself to become known the world over.” -William M. Bowen “. . . an institution which in its way will rival the famous Field Museum of Chicago, and others in the East. “Certainly these institutions may exceed in their present size and scope, but in the beauty and appointment of the structures that house them they are not in advance of Los Angeles.” -“Ancient Relics,” Los Angeles Times

35. The Opening November 1913 A joint celebration

36. The Los Angeles Aqueduct November 5, 1913 “There it is. Take it.” -William Mulholland

37. The Opening November 6, 1913 10,000 people “Such occasions as this stand for and promote a higher civilization. They show strong and sturdy growth towards cleaner living, clearer thinking and nobler action. . . . In dedicating for the use of the people this beautiful building and grounds we pay a tribute to history, to art, to science, to recreation and the joy of living” - District Attorney, Capt. John D. Fredericks, Dedicatory Speech