Manuscripts
Photographs of Pacific Wire Rope Company, Los Angeles
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Photographs of Pacific Steel & Wire Company of San Francisco and Oakland
Manuscripts
7 photographs. Also: related items and clippings
HM 48771
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Pacific Steel & Wire Company. To Bank of California: promissory note
Manuscripts
Signed by: Brown, Frank Lampson and Spear, Lewis Eugene
HM 48752
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Pacific Material Life Insurance Company. To Clara (Whitney) Spear
Manuscripts
The collection consists of the papers of three generations of the Spear family: Alexander Fulton Spear (1800-1853), Alexander Fulton Spear (1827-1900), and Lewis Eugene Spear (1867-1953). It includes the Gold Rush journal of Alexander Fulton Spear (1800-1853), which documents his ocean journey from Maine to California aboard the ship "Perfect" and mining near Coloma, California. There are also papers regarding the marine service of Alexander Fulton Spear (1827-1900) and a few business papers pertaining to Lewis Eugene Spear (1867-1953), the Pacific Steel & Wire Co., and the Pacific Wire Rope Co. Two noteworthy items in the collection are a photograph album showing Southern California, Monterey, and a trip to Alaska (1900-02) and a diary of a trip from San Francisco to Coquille, Oregon, on the steam schooner "Chico" which includes 25 photographs (1903). The addenda consists of ephemera, genealogy material, and photographs related to the Spear and Whitney families.
HM 48751
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Photographs of Pacific Electric Railway Company, Los Angeles Railway, and miscellaneous Los Angeles and Seattle, Washington, views
Visual Materials
A collection of 25 photographs, most likely compiled by railroad electrical engineer Samuel Horace Anderson, with an emphasis on early transportation innovations and technologies. The group includes railway-related images in Los Angeles, California, as well as a few from Seattle, Washington (items 3-7); views of various trolley cars of the Pacific Electric Railway and Los Angeles Railway; Barn No. 1 of the Los Angeles Railway with six horse-drawn tower cars lined up in front of the building (item 10); two photographs of a man in an automobile captioned "1910, Mr. Taber & demonstrating his patent wind-shield on Mr. S. Horace Anderson's 1908 Franklin" (items 14-15); views of inventor Joseph Fawke's "Aerial Swallow," an experimental, propeller-driven monorail which was built in Burbank in 1911 or 1912 (items 16-18); a 1918 commercial photograph of two men with a giant swordfish at Catalina Island (item 20); and two photographs of a Chutes amusement park water ride (also known as Washington Garden, at Washington and Grand in Los Angeles) (items 21-22). There are also some recreational group portraits as well as a studio portrait of S. Horace Anderson (Item 1), who also appears to be present in the group photograph taken in Hot Springs, Arkansas (Item 25).
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Spear, Lewis Eugene. Stockholders season book for the Panama-Pacific International Expoisition, containing photographs of Lewis Eugene Spear
Manuscripts
Also: Stockholders season book for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, containing photograph of Clara (Whitney) Spear and also other memorabilia
HM 48760
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Photograph of San Francisco Earthquake
Manuscripts
25 photographs. Also: pass to cross the lines during the period after the San Francisco fire. San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906—Photographs
HM 48770