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Ogden. Washington Avenue
- Description
- Photo of a busy city street with a multiple businesses and a trolley car in the distance.
- Date
- approximately 1898 - 1910
- Call number
- photCL 449 (161)
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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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A collection of glass plate and film negatives by amateur photographer and Los Angeles real estate broker George P. Thresher focusing on the American Southwest and Native Americans of the region, particularly of Arizona, and the Gila River crossing area, from ca. 1898 to 1910. The majority of the Thresher Collection contains images of towns and sites in Arizona, including Phoenix, Mission San Xavier del Bac, Montezuma Castle, Peach Springs, and adobe ruins. Photographs of Texas are well represented in the collection, including many views of Missions San Concepcion, San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo), San Francisco de la Espada, and Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo. There are also images of Colorado (Garden of the Gods, Pike's Peak, and Castle Rock), New Mexico (Santa Fe, Tesuque, and possibly Laguna), and unidentified pueblos. Notable portraits from California are of Victoriano, chief of the Soboba Indians, and his unnamed third wife. There is a separate and very interesting sequence of images depicting the Mount Beauty Mine and its operations in San Diego County, California. A small assortment of lantern slides is at the end of the collection showing Indians of Arizona, California, and New Mexico.
photCL 449
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Los Angeles' streets were still dominated by the trolley car when Dave Redinger opened a private engineering practice early in 1914. This view of rush hour shows Los Angeles Railway trolley cars lined up on East Seventh Street, waiting their turn to cross the equally busy Main Street. All of these trolleys, and much of downtown Los Angeles, was receiving electricity from the new Big Creek power plants.
photCL SCE 12 - 00048
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Image of an eye-level street view of the five-story Gothic Revival-style Odd Fellows Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, showing a church and neighboring building in the background, and a busy street scene with pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage and trolley in the foreground.
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Image of an elevated street view of the stores and buildings in Dock Square in Boston, Massachusetts, centered on the Charles J. Lovejoy clothing warehouse, with the storefront awnings lined with suits, and busy cobblestone streets filled with horse-drawn carts, a Citizens Line trolley car, and people; the side of Faneuil Hall is visible on the right.
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A view of Spring Street with several trolley cars. The trolley car in the foreground says "Fourth and Broadway- University Division- Washington- Agricultural Park."
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A view of State Street in Santa Barbara with storefronts, carriages and a trolley car.
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