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Series 2. Photographic prints
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Letchworth family photograph collection
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This collection consists of pages of a disbound photograph album containing 32 various-sized snapshots related to travel by the Letchworth Family in Southern California in 1906. The images, accompanied by handwritten captions, include views of Eagle Rock, Pasadena, Las Casitas in Ventura, and the Miramar Inn in Santa Barbara, California, as well as four images of "Mr. Howard and his Burrows coming from Death Valley." The images include landscape views of Southern California canyons, hillsides, and ranch lands; horseback riding, hotel buildings, and two Native Americans. The images are mounted on 7 disbound 10 x 12 inch scrapbook pages from a photograph album. 15 of the images are 3 3/4 x 12 inch panoramas. The collection also contains one loose 6 x 8 inch gelatin silver print showing members of an audience in a grandstand during a March 1906 horse show in Pasadena (Item 33).
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Photographic prints
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Approximately 50 black-and-white prints (4 x 5 inches or smaller) of people and scenes in the Philippines. Some have handwriting, and some have been removed from a photograph album, including a large print of possibly military barracks in Cavite. Several of the prints are standard postcard size, including a photograph of two native men holding a human head.
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Photographic prints
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Approximately 50 black-and-white prints (4 x 5 inches or smaller) of people and scenes in the Philippines. Some have handwriting, and some have been removed from a photograph album, including a large print of possibly military barracks in Cavite. Several of the prints are standard postcard size, including a photograph of two native men holding a human head.
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Matted photographs, residences
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Primarily 8 x 10-inch prints in cardboard mats. Residences: 581 Berkeley Avenue (San Marino), Arthur K. Bourne (San Marino), Wilbur Collins, H. L. Delano, Philip S. Doane. Others: Doheny Library, Libbey Stables (photograph of a rendering).
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Letchworth family photograph collection
Visual Materials
This collection consists of pages of a disbound photograph album containing 32 various-sized snapshots related to travel by the Letchworth Family in Southern California in 1906. The images, accompanied by handwritten captions, include views of Eagle Rock, Pasadena, Las Casitas in Ventura, and the Miramar Inn in Santa Barbara, California, as well as four images of "Mr. Howard and his Burrows coming from Death Valley." The images include landscape views of Southern California canyons, hillsides, and ranch lands; horseback riding, hotel buildings, and two Native Americans. The images are mounted on seven disbound scrapbook pages from a photograph album. 15 of the images are 3 3/4 x 12 inch panoramas. The collection also contains one loose 6 x 8 inch gelatin silver print showing members of an audience in a grandstand during a March 1906 horse show in Pasadena (Item 33).
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A. Photographs: Railroads, United States and Canada
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This subseries includes mainline and shortline railroads; some logging and mining railroads, some train stations. There are some views of electric-powered trains on railroads that migrated to electrification (example: Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad). At the end of this section is a photograph album of trains across United States, 1939-1947. Note on gaps in content: The collection as received had a relatively small number of photographs of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and Southern Pacific Railroad.
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