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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Elsinore, the lake colony : Cheap homes in Southern California
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of four women and one man standing nude in front of a wooden sign for Olympic Fields, a nudist colony located near Lake Elsinore, California. The sign reads "Olympic Fields, formerly Elysia."
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Four cabinet card photographs of Lake Elsinore: "Chaney's first house in Warm Spring Valley"; a small town on the lake (1884); "first house at Elsinore" with a well; scenic view of lake. Another card photograph in this folder: First Baptist Church of San Francisco by I. W. Taber. See also a daguerreotype of this image: photDAG 61. Other photographs are the following: images of drawings of San Bernardino in the 1850s; a photographic postcard of Point Hueneme Lighthouse (1943); copy photograph of Los Angeles Plaza and surrounding buildings by Francis Parker (approximately 1871-1875).
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Rare Books
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Printed material, newspaper clippings, photographs, and rates communication letters related to Lake Elsinore and Southern Sierras Power Company service area. Section at back of scrapbook contains clippings related to deaths caused by natural gas. Business card of P.L. Nourse, Division Superintendent, attached. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.
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