Manuscripts

El Camino Real improvement petitions

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Description: Two manuscripts related to the preservation of El Camino Real. Includes a petition by Mrs. A.S.C. Forbes for repairing and expanding El Camino Real, with the purpose of opening "to the traveler many beauties of the State," particularly the Spanish Missions. She concludes that "when completed it will be the most historic, romantic, picturesque, and unique boulevard in the world." Also includes a copy of the Articles of the Camino Real Association of California, founded to "unite all the commercial, social, and agricultural interests of California in a general plan for the improvement of public highways."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1904.
Call number: mssHM 74611-74612
Provenance: Acquired from N. Kovach, March 17, 1944.
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"El Camino Real" Poststamp Book

Manuscripts

Three copies of "El Camino Real - The King's Highway" (each booklet contains stamps to apply to specific pages).

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The bells of El Camino Real

Manuscripts

In the 1920s, Harriman became interested in California history and the bells of the California missions and she traveled the El Camino Real surveying the missions and their bells. In the manuscript she discusses the history of the following missions and their bells: San Gabriel Arcangel, San Juan Capistrano, San Buenaventura, San Diego, San Juan Bautista, San Luis Rey, and Santa Barbara. The manuscript was put together by Harriman's friends after her death in 1925; it includes a foreword by David Starr Jordan. The manuscript was never published.

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Plaza Mission; El Camino Real Bell

Visual Materials

A view of the El Camino Real Mission bell with a sign pointing to San Gabriel Mission (12 miles) in one direction and San Fernando Mission (23 miles) the other direction. There is a brick building in the background.

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El Camino Real

Visual Materials

A collection of approximately 1,500 photographs and various ephemera and publications of California missions, collected by Southern California educator Connie Rothstein, with an emphasis on the San Gabriel Mission, the history of the city of San Gabriel, and the production of "The Mission Play" by John Steven McGroarty. The collection also includes late-19th and early-20th century photographs of Los Angeles and Southern California, and postcards and ephemera related to the Southern California region. Notable in the collection are 391 stereographs of missions and Los Angeles, including some by photographers William Godfrey and H. T. Payne, A. C. Varela, and Carleton Watkins. All of the California Missions are represented in the collection, plus the "sub-missions" or Asistencias of California. The mission photographs include many unusual views and details, and are a mixture of snapshots made by tourists and commercial photographs. There are many views in and around Southern California, most dating from 1880s-1920s, by various photographers. Specific topics emphasized in and around Los Angeles are: Olvera Street, Chinatown, La Fiesta de Los Angeles celebration; and the Mount Lowe Railway. There are many cabinet cards and stereographs, and six large panoramic photographs of the Los Angeles area. The ephemera include hundreds of postcards and photographic postcards, scrapbooks, and many small publications on the history of the missions and California, as well as ephemera related to "The Mission Play." Other topics in the collection are: photographs and ephemera of Monterey, California; Oregon and the Columbia River Highway; and a group of photographs of cowboys and Western culture (mid-20th century).

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El Camino Real

Visual Materials

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"El Camino Real, Part I,"

Visual Materials

The Peabody Collection consists of 672 glass plate negatives in various sizes, 1054 film negatives in various sizes, 24 photograph albums, 887 loose photographs in a variety of formats, published works, and manuscript material, created and collected by Henry G. Peabody, 1859-1993 (bulk 1890s-1900s). The materials collectively describe Peabody's long career as a commercial landscape photographer working on both the east and west coasts of the United States. The photographs and negatives depict Peabody and his family; landscape views in New England, Canada, the western United States, California, and Mexico; Native Americans; city and landscape views in Great Britain, France, and Switzerland; portraits; architectural renderings; plants and animals; unidentified landscapes; and miscellaneous images. Additional photographers and photographic firms represented in the collection include Alexander Hesler, Charles F. Lummis, and Spence Air Photos. The published works contain photographs by Peabody. The manuscript material provides information about Peabody's negatives; contains catalogs of Peabody's works for sale; describes Peabody's commercial dealings as both a photographer and seller of photographic equipment; and contains ephemeral material collected by Peabody throughout his life.

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