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296 trated by motion pictures of industries which contribute to the wealth of Los Angeles. In the same building is the collection bequeathed by Don Antonio and Doña Coronel, those "friends of the Indians" at whose home Mrs. Jackson stayed when it stood in the midst of broad acres near the present site of the Arcade station.

Rivalling in interest the handicraft of monks and Indians, the priestly vessels used by Serra, and the cannon fired at the dedication of San Diego and San Gabriel is the table upon which the first chapters of Ramona were written. Above it is a portrait of the author, and there are other portraits of the Coronel family and of General Pio Pico, last Mexican Governor of California.

At First Street and Broadway is the site of the Times building that was dynamited on that fell October day, 1910. Two blocks beyond are the Post Office, and the Court House whose tower affords a view of the city and its suburbs, of the Mother Range behind Pasadena and of the sea rolling to the harbour portals of San Pedro, 20 miles away.

The three upper floors of a tall building at Fifth and Broadway are occupied by the Public Library. Together with its six branches it has a reading patronage greater in comparison with the city's population than that of any municipal library in the United States.