Harry Abrahams, Inc, 1980, 320 pages Here is a true Los Angeles publishing land-mark. Two centuries of history and 200 striking color photographs of contemporary Los Angeles are linked together in a spectacular volume celebrating the city's bicentennial. In this handsome and highly original treatment, each photograph is accompanied by a crisp commentary describing a key historic event in the city's development for every year since 1781. A bird's-eye view precedes the text—a four-page pull-out presenting a chart of the years from 1781 to 1980, with the key happening for each year given in a capsule sentence and with 34 black-and-white historic engravings and photographs.

ISBN: 0810912570