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New album of Richmond views
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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
An album of 115 amateur photographs of people and places, chiefly in Southern California, New Mexico, and Colorado, presumably kept by civil engineer Edwin B. Davey (1893-1961) in the 1910s. Subjects mainly appear to reflect Davey's work surveying for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad in the American Southwest and recreational activities in Southern California. Snapshots include six photographs of a U. S. Navy seaplane (labeled "Santa Barbara Fiesta," July 3-6, 1919); three photographs showing houses of Davey and his wife, Genevieve Davey, including at 1418 Ivy Street in Glendale, California; two photographs of "picking beans" in Oxnard, California, October 1918; four photographs showing a parade near the Glendale Pacific Electric Station; American soldiers in an unidentified camp and on a trip to Mexico in September 1917; ten photographs of Ralph DePalma racing in the Santa Monica Road Race in March 1919; six photographs of a group of women swimming and in a rowboat near the Long Beach pier; an unidentified train derailment showing a Pullman car labeled "Antonio," which has "Rock Iland [i.e. Rock Island] #6" written on one of the images; images of men with surveying equipment, including one identified as Las Vegas engineers in 1913, and scenes of railroad construction and surveying at Raton, New Mexico, including a railroad tunnel identified as "Raton Pass Tunnel," and the Colorado/New Mexico state line; a group and individual portraits of the baseball team of Central High School presumably in Pueblo, Colorado; and studio and amateur portraits of young men. In addition, there are a few snapshots of the desert including the Cajon Wash and Hesperia, California, and people at various train stations, such as Colorado Springs, Colorado; Long Beach, California; and Lamy, New Mexico.
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