Historic Bunker Hill 3D Experience

Part of the larger Bunker Hill Refrain project, our team is developing a web-based interactive experience of historic Bunker Hill that will allow users to immerse themselves in the lost neighborhood and access stories and information about people and places via archival sources and oral histories.

To date, the Historic Bunker Hill 3D Experience covers sixteen contiguous blocks (one square mile) of the neighborhood.

Historical Sources

Architectural Drawings

Architectural sketches created by the WPA in 1940 to assist in the construction of a scale model of downtown Los Angeles. The physical sketches are held by the City of Los Angeles City Clerk, City Archive and Records.
Aerial Photography

Photos from UC Santa Barbara’s Aerial Photography Collection, in particular, images from Flight C-7334, (frames 57 and 58), Aug. 14, 1941.
Historical Photographs

Historical photographs from the period, primarily from USC Libraries Special Collections, the Huntington Library, Los Angeles Public Library, the California State Library's SoCa Digitization Project, and the Getty.
Sanborn Maps

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps from Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California .Sanborn Map Company, - May 1950; Vol. 1. Library of Congress.