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Woodworth Realty offfice and Jarvis Photo Gallery

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Description: Two-story brick building with awning, and the storefronts of Woodworth Realty and Jarvis Gallery on Colorado Street in Pasadena, California. On the right, photo displays are visible inside the entry of the gallery. Three men, one in a top hat, stand on the left in front of the real estate office.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1886-approximately 1894
Call number: photPF 540
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N.E. corner Walnut & Madison

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A cluster of small houses at intersection of two dirt roads in Pasadena, California. Two men and a group of children stand on corner of intersection. A handwritten note indicates two of the houses were owned by photographers Benjamin Jarvis and his son Lucius E. Jarvis, the owners of the Jarvis studio.

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Jarvis family life histories [microform]: c.1943

Manuscripts

Microfilm of typescript and handwritten biographies and autobiographies, primarily related to the Jarvis family. Included are a biography of Heber Jarvis (1860-1953) by his daughter Pearl Jarvis Farr written in 1943 (and which also includes biographical notes on her grandparents George Jarvis and Ann Prior Jarvis), a biography of Janet Mauretta Johnson Smith (1848-1933) by Farr, a biography of Joel H. Johnson (1850-1902), a biography of George Jarvis by his daughter Victoria Josephine Jarvis Miles, a portion of Ann Prior Jarvis' autobiography (see also MSS MFILM 137), a biography of Lorin Farr (1820-1909), and a biography of Margaret Jarvis (1857-1934) by her daughter Stella Jarvis Peterson.

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The Sphinx Realty Co. building, Los Angeles

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The Sphinx Realty Company building, at 537 North Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, California, built in the shape of the head of a sphinx. The business was no longer operating from this site when the photograph was made, as it shows a "For Rent" sign on the door.

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The Sphinx Realty Co. building, Los Angeles

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"Willow Dale." N.C. Carter's residence, San Gabriel, Cal

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A little boy in a top hat, and little girl stand holding hands on a wood-plank walkway. Behind them is a driveway that runs past a vineyard and up to the two-story residence of Nathaniel C. Carter on the Willow Dale estate in San Gabriel (now San Marino, California).

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Selim Edwin Woodworth papers

Manuscripts

A collection of approximately 1,600 items from 1834 to 1947, which consists of letters, manuscripts, documents, 28 photographs and three scrapbooks related to the life, family and career of Selim Edwin Woodworth (1815-1871). Subject matter includes Woodworth's service at sea: a journal kept aboard the ship "Margaret Oakley" from New York to the South Pacific from 1834 to 1835, the log of the ship "Ohio" in the Mediterranean from 1838 to 1839, and naval orders from the Civil War period. There are also San Francisco business papers of Selim and his brother, Frederick A. Woodworth and mining papers for the Blue Wing Quartz Mine in Calaveras County, California from 1860 to 1864. The collection also contains material related to his son Selim Edwin Woodworth (1857-1900) who rose to lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. There are commissions, orders from 1871 to 1899, and a journal of a voyage to Mexico and Peru from 1878 to 1879. There are a few letters from Selim Edwin Woodworth's father, the poet Samuel Woodworth.

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