Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
Photographs of the American West, dating from the 1870s to the 1890s, collected by Carl S. Dentzel (1913-1980), director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California, including a disbound album of photographs of Alaska taken by A. L. Broadbent. These views show Revenue Cutter Service ships and officers; Alaskan natives; towns; scenery; the fur trade and mission schools. Other notable photographs in this collection include portraits of John C. Frémont, Harrison Gray Otis, and John A. Sutter; a series of Lake Tahoe card photographs; and views of early western settlers around the time of the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. The collection also depicts Alaskan native graves; missionaries; walrus hunting; whaling ships; totem poles; officers in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service; vacationers throughout California; the logging industry; Kingston, New Mexico; Greek Orthodox church buildings; the first grand jury in Nome, Alaska; James Gilchrist Swan; and a portrait of one of the collection's photographers, Alfred Lee Broadbent. Photographers who contributed to this collection include William C. Billington, Alfred Lee Broadbent, F. Davey, Edward De Groff, Charles D. Kirkland, D. S. Mitchell, C.H. Shaffner, Julius Ulke, and Raper James Waters.
photCL 98
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Colorado River - [Survey party tent camp in desert] - [additional shot with 16 men standing by two touring cars in tent camp (SCE 7022) on same photocard]
photCL SCE 02 - 07021
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Photo of a line of tents with a soldier standing in front of one, and two more soldiers in the background.
photCL 39 (461)
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Two locomotives pulling into the Union Mills Station in Clifton, Virginia. First locomotive has only one car, name on side unreadable. The second locomotive is hauling two flat bed cars, a single car and a manual derrick car. There are several men riding on the flat bed and scattered around the track. One man stands in the middle of the photo in front of a triangle tent and on the front right-hand side of photo is a water tower with large wooden barrels. This image similar to photCL 301 (95). Title on mount: Union Mills Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 16.
photCL 301 (27)
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Photo of three men and a child in front of a wooden shed.
photCL 98 (21)
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Image of an elevated exterior view of a circus building labeled "Tent Theatre" with lines of people in front and circus wagons and smaller tents in background; one trailer is labeled "36" and another is labeled "Maria Non...".
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