Image: “Women walking near the old stairs at San Gabriel Mission,” 1896, courtesy UCLA Libraries 
Manuela García was an early-twentieth century, LA-based, Mexican American artist who collaborated with the historian and City Librarian Charles Lummis to document the music of Mexican Los Angeles. This song is included on a playlist of tracks you can hear in the Picturing Mexican America app (available for iOS and Android) as you travel along LA Metro's E Line.

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Welcome to “Arcadia Bandini Stearns de Baker - The Woman Behind Santa Monica,” a self-guided bike tour through Santa Monica and West Los Angeles. Many of you, we’re sure, have strolled along the beach in Santa Monica or hopped on the freeway near the Veteran’s Administration complex, but you may not know the area’s rich and interesting past, much of it involving, or thanks to, Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker. You might think of Santa Monica as the Berkeley of Los Angeles, but it had racial covenants, segregated beaches and its fair share of discrimination. It’s just fascinating that this mostly white city with a kind of racist history was made possible through a Mexican woman’s philanthropy.

Arcadia Bandini Stearns de Baker: The Woman Behind Santa Monica

Arcadia Bandini Stearns de Baker: The Woman Behind Santa Monica

Picturing Mexican America

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