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New L.A. photo book

There's another book of then-and-now photographs about Los Angeles coming. Los Angeles Views of the Past and Present opens with a foreword by Catherine Mullholland, the historian and granddaughter of water engineer William Mulholland, and contains captions written by author and photo archivist Marc Wanamaker. The publisher is George Ross Jezek Publishing.


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