Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
The beach an bathhouse at Avalon on Santa Catalina Island. There are bathers on the shore and in the water, as well as normally attired people who are watching from the pier attached to the bath house. Two men are standing on a railing at the end of the pier preparing to dive, while a third is mid-dive.
photCL 402 (02612)
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A distant view of the Santa Barbara Bath House.
photCL SCE 01 - 00134
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This collection contains photographs by commercial photographers dated ca. 1890-1910 that show images of recreational scenes on Catalina Island, a hotel and public parks in Southern California, and various historical sites in Mexico City. Photographs of Catalina Island include views of Avalon, Sugarloaf Point, sailboats and glass-bottom boats, steamships, bathers at the beach, a tent city, and sailors of the steamship the "San Diego". California views include Missions San Gabriel, San Fernando, and San Juan Capistrano; the Coronado Hotel in San Diego; Central Park, St. James Park, and Hollenbeck Park (all based in Los Angeles); Adams Street in Los Angeles; the Shakespearean actress Helena Modjeska's home in Orange County; and an interior view of Columbia Savings Bank's then president Aaron M. Ozum's residence at 3131 Figueroa Street, Los Angeles. Photographs of Mexico depict the Cathedral de Mexico, Paseo de la Reforma, interiors and exteriors of Castillo de Chapultepec, Hotel Iturbide, Mercado Volador, Canal de la Viga, the daily lives of Mexican citizens, the Zócalo (now known as the Plaza de la Constitución), and various street scenes. Miscellaneous photographs are of cargo ships at shipping docks possibly in San Francisco, a steamship, and gardens. C.B. Waite photographed 19 of the 114 prints in this collection. Other photographers who contributed to this collection are Charles F. Ironmonger, Frank L. Park, Percy Cox and R.J. Carmichael, J.C. Hatton, Noren F. Swenson, and the Special View Company. Two photographers were identified on some photographs only by their surname: Graham and Scott.
photCL 110
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Early photographs of Santa Monica, showing the Santa Monica Hotel with railroad tracks visible in the foreground; the wharf and railroad cars on tracks at the end; landscape views showing the beach, canyon, bathers, bath house, and bluff. All are card photographs imprinted "From Watkins' Yosemite art gallery..." One unrelated photograph (photPF 600) of a drinking fountain in Alum Rock Park, San Jose, also in this folder.
photPF 600-609
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Image of the beach in front of the Santa Monica Bath House and Michael Duffy's Bath House (two long one-story buildings at right of the two-story Santa Monica Bath House) in Santa Monica, California, with the Santa Monica Hotel on the bluffs at right.
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View of the San Gabriel Valley including the city of Pasadena, California, as seen from the San Gabriel Mountains, with the Mount Lowe Observatory visible at right in the foreground and buildlings including the Pacific Electric Railway power station of Mt. Lowe Railroad and the ruins of the Echo Mountain House hotel, which was destroyed by fire in 1900, visible on Echo Mountain at left.
photCL Pierce 04874