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Two albums containing ninety-seven photographs, chiefly by amateur photographer S. L. Walkley, of buildings and landscapes in Los Angeles County and San Diego County, California, in 1888. These professional-quality views by Walkley depict newly constructed buildings, street scenes, and the natural landscape, including the flora. These volumes may have been Walkley's own albums as they contain photographs of the construction and finished exterior of his residence on St. John Street in Pasadena, California. The albums include photographs of houses, hotels, streets, and buildings in Pasadena, California and the surrounding towns of Alhambra, San Gabriel, Whittier, and others as well as views of the Arroyo Seco, Little Santa Anita Canyon, Eaton Canyon, and the path to Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel Mountain area. There are photographs of downtown Los Angeles; Hotel del Coronado and Old Town San Diego in San Diego County; and Avalon and Avalon Harbor on Santa Catalina Island. Several photographs show African American trainers with camels and elephants as well as an open circus wagon containing lions (volume 1, items 37-40) These scenes may be associated with the Sells Brothers Circus, which visited Los Angeles in October 1888 (See also volume 2, item 31). There is one photograph of a train labeled "Tia Juana & N.C. & O. Rwy. Train" (volume 1, item 30), presumably referring to the National City & Otay Railroad, a subsidiary of the Santa Fe Railroad, formed in 1886, which connected downtown San Diego with the Sweetwater Dam (San Diego County), La Presa (San Diego County), and Tijuana (Mexico). Two photographs bear the imprint of C.W. Herr and depict street scenes in Provo, Utah and Ogden, Utah (volume 1, items 35 and 36).
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View of the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad depot (with two towers) at San Pedro Street and Fourth Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with a locomotive and passenger car in front of the station.
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Image of people standing at the Summerland passenger train depot while the baggage car of a Southern Pacific Railroad train is unloaded in the distance, in Summerland, Santa Barbara County, California. Signs read "Summerland to San Francisco," and "Post Office."
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Includes: Clippings related to San Diego, 1886 and 1898. San Diego, the Birthplace of California. [A volume of] Kingdom of the Sun. The art magazine de luxe for the library table de luxe, containing over one hundred camera catches flashed from the big out-of-doors of Southern California. Oro Grande, California: Lillian D. Gregory, ca. 1915. (Over 100 halftone photographs)
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Image of the Our Lady of Peace School building on Oregon Street, at the corner with Collier Avenue, in San Diego, California.
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Image of the intersection of Collier Avenue and Oregon Street in San Diego, California, with girls in school uniforms and a dog crossing the street to the Our Lady of Peace School.
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