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San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
This collection consists of 35mm Kodachrome slides taken between 1954 and 1972. This collection of photographs taken by amateur photographer Palmer Conner documents by street the physical and social changes of Bunker Hill during the earliest stages of redevelopment. The collection is particularly strong in its depiction of the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles during redevelopment in the 1950s. Images chiefly consist of views of commercial and residential building exteriors taken from the street, including images of both new construction and older buildings in the process of being demolished.
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Interior of the rotunda in the Doheny Chester Place mansion display cases, and views of various documents in those display cases.
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An album containing 117 photographs with a variety of interior and exterior views of the Doheny mansion and grounds at Chester Place, one of the first gated communities in Los Angeles. The first half of the album is exterior views, showing entrances, ivy-covered walls, plant- and palm-lined walkways, a greenhouse or conservatory, a large garage, and tennis courts. The second half of the album has interior areas, showing lavushly decorated public rooms with heavy furniture, dark woodwork, painted ceilings, animal skin rugs, statues and vases, a grand piano decorated with painted scenes, and multiple coffee/tea sets; a room with a high domed glass ceiling and marble pillars; a billiard room; a dining room shown with and without the table and chairs in place; a room decorated with Native American rugs, a long, feathered headdress, and a stuffed bald eagle; several bedrooms with varying degrees of decoration; multiple bathrooms; and a large, long, empty hall. Only one photograph includes people, a view of an office with two women.
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Brousseau mansion has become dilapidated.
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