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Cascades, Los Angeles Aqueduct

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Description: Panoramic view of the Cascades of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and the surrounding foothills and land in present-day Sylmar, California, in the San Fernando Valley. Crowds of people and parked automobiles are in the area, and people are lining the concrete wall where the water is seen flowing down the mountain.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1913
Call number: photCL 555
Creator: Marquez, Ernest (1924-)(Opens in new tab)
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Los Angeles – Los Angeles Aqueduct, ca. 1910 – 1920s

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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.

photCL 555

Cogswell's Sierra Madre Villa, W.P. Rhoades Lessee, Los Angeles Co., Cal

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The long, two-story building of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in what is now Sierra Madre, California, owned by William F. Cogswell, with many windows, sits on a slight hill in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. A group of smaller buildings sit to the right. A forked, dirt road lined with shrub plants and young trees leads up to buildings.

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Piping water to Los Angeles [portion of the L.A. Aqueduct] (Imprint no: 20262)

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Eaton's Canyon, Pasadena

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View of people sitting on boulders next to a creek among oak trees in Eaton Canyon, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Pasadena, California.

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Armistice Day 1931, Olympic Stadium, Los Angeles, Calif

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Panoramic view of the Los Angeles Coliseum (also called the Olympic Stadium early in its history) with crowds in the stands and a marching band and soldiers on the field on Armistice Day, 1931.

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Los Angeles Examiner building

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Image of the Los Angeles Examiner building at 509 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, California, decorated American flags and banner including signs reading "An American Paper for the American People" and "Welcome."

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Cascades, Los Angeles Aqueduct

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