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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
One of 12 copies of an oversized book produced for the participants of a car trip from Denver, Colorado, to Los Angeles, California, from July 8th to August 1, 1919. The volume contains 165 photographs tipped in on 39 pages and 23 pages of text. The images document stops in Fort Duchesne, Salt Lake City, Austin Creek, Reno, Yosemite, Tallac Lagoon, Glacier Point, San Francisco, Carpenteria, and Colorado Springs, and depict the desert and mountain landscapes, the automobile travel, and visits to landmarks, restaurants, etc. The photographs also include images of the participants including aviator Orville Wright (who may have taken the photographs). The text includes a day-by-day narrative of the journey as well as lists of "Car Equipment," "Personal Equipment," the trip participants, and two pages decorated with printed images and the text of two poems: "The God of the Open Air" and "The Desert Horseman" by Gustavus D. Pope and Sidney D. Waldon. Some of the photographs are panoramas (8.3 x 28.6 cm).
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The Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 5157 glass plate negatives, film negatives, and panoramic negatives, 1889-1949, that depict commercial, residential and landscape sites in and around Pasadena and Southern California. The images provide a look at the commercial, residential and social development of Pasadena and surrounding areas during the early years of the twentieth century. The collection is especially rich in images of residential architecture in Pasadena, Altadena, and San Marino; images of Lake Tahoe; depictions of, and activities at, the Raymond, Maryland, and Huntington Hotels in Pasadena; and the commercial, social and cultural landscapes of Pasadena. The collection also provides, through its breadth and depth of subject matter, an example of the career activities of a commercial photographer in Southern California in the early years of the twentieth century.
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