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[Album of photographs and snapshots of the Vermejo club and surroundings]

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Description: An album with approximately 250 photographs of the Vermejo Club and ranch in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, with views of the central buildings and landscape. Photographs of the exteriors and interiors of buildings are all on the first 17 pages of the album, with scenes of families at rest, playing tennis, and practicing archery. The interiors of the buildings are lavishly decorated, particularly the large hall that appears in several photographs and has a pool table, bear skin rug, and taxidermied wolf. Other rooms shown include bedrooms, sitting rooms, a bathroom, and an office. The photographs also include landscape scenes and various activities of ranch life, including horseback riding, hunting, and fishing. Outdoor scenery includes ponds and streams, wooded areas, and rock formations. One of the photographs appears to show the taxidermied wolf from the great hall posed outdoors, as though it is a wild animal.
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Publication date: [approximately 1926-approximately 1930]

Vermejo Club

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An album with 248 photographs of the Vermejo Club and ranch in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, with views of the central buildings and landscape. Photographs of the exteriors and interiors of buildings are all on the first 17 pages of the album, with scenes of families at rest, playing tennis, and practicing archery. The interiors of the buildings are lavishly decorated, particularly the large hall that appears in several photographs and has a pool table, bear skin rug, and taxidermied wolf. Other rooms shown include bedrooms, sitting rooms, a bathroom, and an office. The photographs also include landscape scenes and various activities of ranch life, including horseback riding, hunting, and fishing. Outdoor scenery includes ponds and streams, wooded areas, and rock formations. One of the photographs appears to show the taxidermied wolf from the great hall posed outdoors, as though it is a wild animal.

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Titus Ranch photograph album, (bulk 1911-1915)

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An album of 70 mounted photographs and 19 loose photographs depicting ranching and agricultural activities at Titus Ranch, San Gabriel Valley, California in the early 20th century. The ranch was named for Luther H. Titus (1822-1900), who bought the property in San Gabriel and what is now San Marino in the late 19th century; it was primarily devoted to citrus orchards and the breeding of fine horses. The album appears to have been compiled by someone closely affiliated with the ranch, as there are many handwritten identifications, and an image of men on horses is captioned "Our cowboys." A series of 8 x 10-inch photographs depict overviews of the ranch buildings over time, from 1890 to 1914. The bulk of the album depicts people and activities on the ranch between 1911 and 1915, including: plowing fields with teams of horses and also with farm machinery; farmworkers and crops; livestock; stables and portraits of horses; young men in suits posed with cars on the ranch; cowboys branding cattle; barns, and a large two-story residence called "Whitehall Estate." A group of loose snapshots of the ranch and ranchers are dated 1913 to 1937.

photCL 644

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Jesus College, Cambridge

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A photograph album containing scenes in and around Jesus College, Cambridge University, England. Includes views of the various campus buildings and grounds, as well as interiors of student rooms; group portraits of students and pictures of sporting events such as cricket, track, and rowing and crew regattas. Most photographs are embossed with the imprint: "Messrs. Stearn Photos, Cambridge."

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Photographs and photograph albums

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The Photographs and photograph albums series includes images of Henry E. Huntington, Arabella Huntington, Collis P. Huntington, and other members of the Huntington, Metcalf, and Holladay families. The photographs include both formal portraits and candid views. Several of the Metcalf family photograph albums document family trips. Images of Henry E. Huntington also appear outside his own sub-series and are noted in the finding aid. Other subjects include the Patton family; the Shorb ranch and house; Max Farrand; William Hertrich; Grenville M. Dodge; William E. Dunn; William F. Herrin; and Sir Joseph Duveen. The series also includes copies of original photographs not held by The Huntington. The series also contains several cased images, such as daguerreotypes and tintypes, of unidentified people; many are fragile and missing their covers. The Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens sub-series includes photographs of the San Marino ranch and gardens, the construction of Huntington's residence, and works in the Art Gallery. The series also includes two undated albums of photographs of the grounds and buildings taken by American photographer Edward S. Curtis.

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Los Angeles Athletic Club photograph collection

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This collection contains photographs of the members and grounds of the Southern California beach and golf clubs that formed part of the Los Angeles Athletic Club in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The clubs represented are the Santa Monica Athletic Club and Deauville Club (Items 1-16 and 74-83, 65-98); the Hermosa Beach Surf and Sand Club (Items 17-55, and 84); the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades (Items 56-65); and the Long Beach Pacific Coast Club (Items 66-73). The photographs, presumably created as promotional images, include images depicting clubhouse buildings and rooms, as well as members engaged in leisure activities such as sunbathing, swimming, beach volleyball, and golf. Nearly half of the photographs are close-up shots of beach-goers, often young women posing in swimsuits. One set of images depicts women in bathing suits posing for a 1932 Santa Monica Athletic Club fashion show, include two photographs of child actress Shirley Temple (Items 97-98). The items consist of 98 8 x 10 in. black-and-white copy prints with corresponding film negatives, as well as an additional box containing approximately 70 unidentified/unprinted negatives and 1 reel of 16mm film labeled "Jess Willard & strong man, LAAC roof 1933."

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Apple Valley Ranchos promotional photograph album

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22 photographs (8 x 10 inches) and 1 brochure with map. This is an album of promotional photographs and a brochure of a “Western-style” town site and housing development in Apple Valley, San Bernardino County, California. Views of small town of Apple Valley in the desert; interiors and exteriors of ranch houses; people in western clothing riding horses, dancing and working with livestock.

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[Album of photographs and snapshots of the Vermejo club and surroundings]

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