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San Marino, CA 91108
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A collection of photographs depicting the early development of Tujunga, Tujunga Canyon, and Sunland, in Los Angeles County, California. The photographs were made by Tujunga photographer Joseph Lamson and date from approximately 1920 to 1945. Photographs show Tujunga's main business street, with a few storefronts, as well as parks, streams, houses and housing developments, the Little Landers community, and Bolton Hall. There are many bird's-eye-views showing the progressive development of the town, and several landscapes of Tujunga Canyon and Mount McGroarty, including crowds visiting the Cross of San Ysidro. Views of Sunland are mostly focused on Monte Vista Park and Sunland Park. The prints are later contact prints made from glass or film negatives, and many have handwritten identifications and are signed "Lamson."
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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.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 10 items: photocopy, "Holiday greetings -- 1910, from Gen. Harrison Gray Otis...to his friend John S. McGroarty" ; 14-pp. handwritten manuscript for his LAT Sunday Magazine column of 9/8/1935 ; copy of McGroarty's biographical info compiled from Who's Who in America, Congressional Record, etc. ; LAT obit copy, 8/7/1944, "Death takes McGroarty, poet laureate" ; article copy, Among Ourselves, 2/1948, "Men who made The Times - John Steven McGroarty" ; 2-pp. letter copy, to Otis Chandler from Viola Carlson, President, Friends of McGroarty Cultural Arts Center, 4/19/1974.
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Prepared by Francis Muir Pomeroy and Starr von Fluss and Presented to the McGroarty Cultural Art Center by Them and by the Little Landers Historical Society.
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This collection contains brochures, clippings, local histories, newspapers, photographs, and programs related to local events in San Gabriel, California and nearby cities. There are many clippings and photographs of Rosita and Vincent Lugo, who were featured dancers in the "Valse Romantico" fiesta scene in The Mission Play by John S. McGroarty. Also included are photographs of La Casa del Rancho San Antonio showcasing rodeos, ranch life, and men posing on horses wearing cowboy-like outfits in the early 1900s. There are also numerous photographs and ephemera related to Lugo's military service during World War II, where he served in the United States Army Infantry Regiment 115th, Company N ("Timberwolves").
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Aerial view looking south over the Hollywood Reservoir (also known as Lake Hollywood) and the Mulholland Dam towards Hollywood and Los Angeles, California, in the distance. The Cahuenga, Pass, Hollywood Freeway (US 101), and the Hollywood Bowl can be seen at right amid the Santa Monica Mountains.
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