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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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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
Group portrait of members of Chinese Mission School.
photCL Pierce 09896
Manuscripts
A group portrait of 16 school children and 1 adult taken in front of the Cunningham School in Merced County. The students are arranged in two rows with the oldest students at the back and the teacher standing on the right. The group consists of seven girls and nine boys. At least three of the children are not wearing shoes.
mssLattaS, Box 115, Folder 2, Item 1
Manuscripts
Glass plate with a group portrait of school children in front of the one room Amsterdam School in Merced County. There are five young boys and two older boys, five young girls, two older girl, and one young woman who may be the teacher(?).
mssLattaS, Box 84, Folder 30, Item 2
Manuscripts
Glass plate with a group portrait of school children in front of the one room Hopeton School in Merced County. There are six young boys and one older boy, two young girls, one older girl, and one young woman who may be the teacher(?), standing in two rows. Two boys in the front row are not wearing shoes. There is a wide porch in front of the school with a dog lying next to the building on the left.
mssLattaS, Box 84, Folder 30, Item 1
Image not available
Visual Materials
Photographs of the American West, dating from the 1870s to the 1890s, collected by Carl S. Dentzel (1913-1980), director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California, including a disbound album of photographs of Alaska taken by A. L. Broadbent. These views show Revenue Cutter Service ships and officers; Alaskan natives; towns; scenery; the fur trade and mission schools. Other notable photographs in this collection include portraits of John C. Frémont, Harrison Gray Otis, and John A. Sutter; a series of Lake Tahoe card photographs; and views of early western settlers around the time of the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. The collection also depicts Alaskan native graves; missionaries; walrus hunting; whaling ships; totem poles; officers in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service; vacationers throughout California; the logging industry; Kingston, New Mexico; Greek Orthodox church buildings; the first grand jury in Nome, Alaska; James Gilchrist Swan; and a portrait of one of the collection's photographers, Alfred Lee Broadbent. Photographers who contributed to this collection include William C. Billington, Alfred Lee Broadbent, F. Davey, Edward De Groff, Charles D. Kirkland, D. S. Mitchell, C.H. Shaffner, Julius Ulke, and Raper James Waters.
Visual Materials
Group portrait of a class of 150 girls at the Broadoaks School at 714 West California. The large group sits and stands in front of the school building and on the balcony. The building seems to incorporate the large tree in front into the building's architecture.
photCL 402 (29204)
photCL 98