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San Marino, CA 91108
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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.
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[Engineers working and testing equipment at a substation] [with 35 variants]
photCL SCE 06 - 71483
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The engineers, surveyors and rodmen from Camps #1, 2 and 7 got together one Sunday in August 1913 to have their picture taken. Dave Redinger, who had been working at Big Creek for a year, is kneeling in the front row, fifth from left.
photCL SCE 12 - 00028
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P1.1 - Group Portraits - Group of lighting engineers - Rankin Group.
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Colorado River - [Group shot of surveyors at desert campsite] - [Shot of surveyors in desert (SCE 7204) on same photocard]
photCL SCE 02 - 07203
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Image of surveyors - three men and one woman -- for the Long Wharf with surveying equipment in Santa Monica, California. Sources identify them as, left to right: Fred Strichfield, Edna Orr (later Mrs. Nellie Coffman), Mr. Donovan, and Casper Tyler.
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