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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 water running through the Arroyo Seco canyon and water pipes affixed to boulders near Pasadena, California. Two men stand on rocks in the stream, and there is some advertising graffiti on the rock walls that says "Bartlett Music Co. and Kimball Piano, L.A. Ca."
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Four girls stand on the steps of a side entrance of the Green Hotel at 99 South Raymond. One holds a parrot and another sits next to a bird cage. Mr. Hervey stands in the doorway. On the left adults sit on lawn chairs reading newspapers.
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A bird's eye view of Pasadena from Scoville Park with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background and orchards and dwellings in the foreground.
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View of a room in the Southwestern Military Academy at 2800 Monterey Road. A platform has been constructed out of wood with two person shaped figures boxing each other on top. Two boys stand on the regular floor in front of the platform operating the controls for the figures. A man is on the platform watching the figures. An ms. note on the negative reads "Automatic Men Boxing".
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Trees and undergrowth and rocks of the Arroyo Seco.
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