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Firemen with horse-pulled fire wagons decorated with roses

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Description: Firemen posed with automobile and horses pulling fire wagons, some with ladders. A little girl sits in one wagon. All of the horses and wagons are decorated with roses, most likely for the Pasadena Tournament of Roses parade, but this has not been verified. This view is on a residential street, with houses in the background.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1912
Call number: photCL 555
Creator: Marquez, Ernest (1924-)(Opens in new tab)

Tournement [sic] of Roses, Pasadena, Jan. 1, 1903, Salt Lake Route

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View of a horse-drawn wagon parade float covered with Native American blankets on the parade route of the Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 1903, with children, a bicycle, and men on horses visible.

photCL 555

Beautiful tribute to a beloved ruler - President McKinley entering Santa Barbara in a Carriage of Roses, California

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Image of United States President William McKinley (sitting at left next to an unidentified man) in a horse-drawn buggy decorated in roses and driven by two men in sombreros and entering Santa Barbara, California, with a crowd of spectators and a palm grove in the background.

photCL 555

This certifies that ... is a member of ... Company; No. ... Fire Department

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Image of a blank stock firefighter's membership certificate with surrounding vignettes of a firefighter returning a rescued baby to its mother; a female nurse tending to a wounded firefighter; a firefighter with a speaking trumpet; firemen in a city street at night before a burning building with steam fire engines and hoses; a firefighter pulling a fire engine; and firefighters aiming a house towards flames; certificate decorated with images of firefighting equipment including fire hats, speaking trumpets, axes, bells, lanterns, preventers, ladders, buckets, censers, fire hydrants, and fire hoses.

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Team of 6 horses pulling a huge cason

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Team of 6 horses pulling a huge cason. With 34 negs - No ID on any except that the container said: "Y.P.Co."

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[Horse pulling farming equipment, next to haystacks]

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This is a collection primarily of negatives and photographic prints depicting the growth of Santa Monica and Los Angeles, California, from 1860s to 1980s. Many views are cityscapes or street views, showing buildings, storefronts, homes and roads, and documenting the use of railroads, trolleys, streetcars, and automobiles. There are many card photographs by early professional photographers, and also a number of snapshots made by amateurs, some in personal photo albums. The collection's scope also includes early views of many other communities in Southern California (and a few in other states); the beginnings of aviation in Santa Monica, including the first Douglas Aircraft Company buildings; a photo album of residents in Topanga Canyon, ca. 1913; automobile racing in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, 1920s; maritime views; a photo album of U.S. troops in France during World War I; a 1949 real estate development in Apple Valley, California, and others. Besides photographs, a portion of the collection consists of scarce publications and historical ephemera, primarily related to Santa Monica and Los Angeles, including brochures, advertising cards, menus, event programs and other materials. Highlights of the Santa Monica images are aerial views of the buildings along the coast and pier (1920s); several views of the Arcadia Hotel (1880s); the Long Wharf and adjoining railroad and train depot; the first bath houses on the beach; the beach club culture of the 1920s and 1930s; the amusement piers of Santa Monica, Ocean Park and Venice; and the beginnings of the Douglas Aircraft Company. There is a large set of promotional photographs made late 1920s-1930s by Powell Press Service depicting people enjoying Santa Monica's beaches, clubs and outdoor recreation. An important subset within the collection is 407 negatives made ca. 1890 - 1908 by Los Angeles historian and amateur photographer George W. Hazard (1842-1914). Hazard travelled around Los Angeles and vicinity photographing the adobes, houses, streets and storefronts that told the early history of the city. Many of Hazard's negatives have handwritten identifications, naming streets, former homeowners, ranchos, and other historical details. There are a large number of cabinet cards and other card-mounted prints and stereographs. There are 1,264 stereograph prints, highlighted by the works of photographic pioneers William M. Godfrey, Francis Parker, Hayward & Muzzall, and Carleton Watkins. Other formats represented are: glass and film negatives; panoramic prints; 7 photograph albums, photographic postcards, 20th-century color prints and transparencies; and a small number of tintypes, cyanotypes and a set of chromolithographs.

Commercial St., Los Angeles

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Elevated view looking down on Commercial Street from the intersection of North Main Street in Los Angeles, California, with the Ducommun Block building at left, with visible signs of "Hubbell & Hudson Law Office" and "Siegel." Horses and wagons and a street merchant can be seen on the street.

photCL 555

Firemen with horse-pulled fire wagons decorated with roses

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