Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of cowboys on horseback saluting United States President William McKinley, who stands at far right, during the La Fiesta parade in May 1901 on South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, California, with the storefronts of the Los Angeles Furniture Company (225 South Broadway) next to Ville de Paris (221 South Broadway) visible behind a crowd of spectators.
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View of a line of men carrying a Chinese Dragon during the La Fiesta parade on South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, California, with the storefront of the Ville de Paris (221 South Broadway) behind a crowd of spectators.
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A collection of approximately 1,500 photographs and various ephemera and publications of California missions, collected by Southern California educator Connie Rothstein, with an emphasis on the San Gabriel Mission, the history of the city of San Gabriel, and the production of "The Mission Play" by John Steven McGroarty. The collection also includes late-19th and early-20th century photographs of Los Angeles and Southern California, and postcards and ephemera related to the Southern California region. Notable in the collection are 391 stereographs of missions and Los Angeles, including some by photographers William Godfrey and H. T. Payne, A. C. Varela, and Carleton Watkins. All of the California Missions are represented in the collection, plus the "sub-missions" or Asistencias of California. The mission photographs include many unusual views and details, and are a mixture of snapshots made by tourists and commercial photographs. There are many views in and around Southern California, most dating from 1880s-1920s, by various photographers. Specific topics emphasized in and around Los Angeles are: Olvera Street, Chinatown, La Fiesta de Los Angeles celebration; and the Mount Lowe Railway. There are many cabinet cards and stereographs, and six large panoramic photographs of the Los Angeles area. The ephemera include hundreds of postcards and photographic postcards, scrapbooks, and many small publications on the history of the missions and California, as well as ephemera related to "The Mission Play." Other topics in the collection are: photographs and ephemera of Monterey, California; Oregon and the Columbia River Highway; and a group of photographs of cowboys and Western culture (mid-20th century).
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Elevated view looking south down on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with the intersection of First Street in the foreground, with pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, cable cars and tracks, and a bicycle. With the four-story Nadeau Hotel visible in the foreground at right on the southwest corner; the Wilson Block building with cupola is visible on the southeast corner. A sign for "L.W. Godin Shoes" (located at 137 South Spring Street in the 1898 Los Angeles City Directory) and "Stoll-Thayer Co. Books and Stationery" (located at 139 South Spring Street in the 1898 Los Angeles directory).
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View of a crowd of spectators standing before the Casa Loma Hotel in Redlands, California, with United States President William McKinley delivering a speech at far left on the balcony, decorated with flowers and palm fronds on May 8, 1901.
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Elevated view looking southwest from Poundcake Hill towards Fort Street (now South Broadway) in downtown Los Angeles, California. A two-story brick building (visible at center left) sits on the southwest corner of Fort Street, at the intersection with First Street. Hill Street is parallel to Fort Street partway up the hillside, passing in front of the houses at upper middle left.
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