Miscellaneous California photographs

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  Souvenir of the California Midwinter International Exposition [graphic]

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  One of an unknown number of presentation copies made to Exposition officials. Each has an individual presentation inscription stamped on front cover. The albums may differ in arrangement and content. The album presented to T. P. Robinson consists of 170 mounted photographs taken in 1894 by Isaiah W. Taber, the official photographer of the Exposition. Most are numbered, with captions and with Taber's copyright notice. The album features views of the buildings, grounds, attractions and events of the California Midwinter International Exposition (C.M.I.E.). Main structures include the Allegorical Fountain, the Administration Building, the Fine Arts Building, the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building and the Mechanical Arts Building. Also featured are attractions and events such as the Firth Wheel, Dante's Inferno, Opening Day ceremonies and the German Procession. Among other pictures are views of Golden Gate Park as construction was underway, buildings and exhibits from various counties, states and nations; crowd and entertainment scenes, international groups in traditional dress and two unidentified group portraits, possibly of Exposition executives. Many night views of the lighted buildings and grounds are also included. Portraits of M. H. de Young, organizer of the Exposition and of the photographer Isaiah W. Taber open and close the album respectively.

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  Photographs of the home of "Ramona," Santa Clara Valley, Ventura, Co., Cal

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  A set of photographs by I. W. Tabor of various locales associated with Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel, Ramona, consisting of a group portrait of laborers sheering sheep and views of Rancho Camulos in the Santa Clara River Valley, California, including images of the ranch house exterior and courtyard, old olive mill, wine vaults, fountain, gardens and fruit groves, and the surrounding hills and landscape. Some photographs include individuals, presumably members of the Del Valle family, who owned the ranch.

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  Lacy Park, San Marino, California and other miscellaneous photographs

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  A folder of miscellaneous photographs: Aerial view of Lacy Park, San Marino, after it was drained and laid out (1937); Mayberry residence, San Marino (approximately 1920); three cabinet card portraits of unidentified people by photographer I. W. Taber (1870s-1880s); scenic view of Redwood Park and Eel River, Humboldt County; scenic view of Ilfracombe, England; exterior of Chesterfield House, England.

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  Photographs of the American West, Alaska, and Niagara Falls

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  A disbound photograph album of 69 commercial photographs of the American West and Alaska. Most of the images are views of natural landscapes, featuring waterfalls, glaciers, geysers, and mountains, and were taken in Santa Barbara, California; Yosemite National Park; Yellowstone National Park; and Alaska. Buildings depicted include the Santa Barbara Mission, Stanford University, and Lick Observatory. Almost all of the photographs were taken in the western United States or Alaska, but there are also two photographs of Ausable Chasm in New York and one photograph of Niagara Falls. Identified photographers include William Henry Jackson, J.C. Parker, N.H. Reed, I.W. Taber, George Fiske, Laura Broughton Watkins, Andrew P. Hill, Seneca Ray Stoddard, and Watkins and Hill.

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  Miscellaneous photographs of Southern California and Arizona

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  Consists of five photographs, two of which are hand colored. Photographs include Arizonan prickly pear by Elias A. Bonine, saguaro (cereus giganteus) cacti by Carleton Watkins, sunset over the Santa Susana mountains by Robert Charlton, horse racing in Pomona by Frasher's, and a portrait by John Kimball Stevens of William James Mayo (of the Mayo Brothers clinic) addressed to Dr. John Adair.

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  Miscellaneous reproduced photographs for the Southern California Quarterly

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  The collection consists of 3511 photographs, negatives and ephemeral items circa 1850s-1982 covering a wide breadth of subject matter. The collection includes images of Los Angeles streets and city views; neighborhoods (including Olvera Street, the Plaza, and Chinatown); Los Angeles office buildings and blocks, municipal buildings and facilities (including city halls, court houses, federal buildings, and postal facilities); Los Angeles County communities (including Culver City; Beverly Hills; Watts; Compton; the Hollywood/Cahuenga area; Mt. Washington; Redondo Beach; Hermosa Beach; Venice Beach; Santa Monica; San Pedro; Wilmington; Long Beach; Burbank; Glendale and the San Fernando Valley; Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley; Avalon and Santa Catalina Island); San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains; San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Francisco Counties; Los Angeles County homes, residential buildings, and gardens; Los Angeles parks; Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside County schools, colleges and universities; Los Angeles County churches and synagogues; Los Angeles area country clubs; hotels and theaters in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino Counties, and the city of San Francisco; and Los Angeles County department stores, newspaper buildings, storefronts, and restaurants. General subjects represented in the collections include industry and manufacturing (including iron and steelworks; brick and terracotta; the motion picture industry; and the clothing trade); agriculture; mining and other extractive industries; infrastructure (including dams and roads, and photographs taken for Caltrans documenting the construction of the Pasadena Freeway, also known as the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway); water and power (including photographs depicting the irrigation of the San Fernando Valley in the 1910s); transportation; sports and leisure activities (including images depicting the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles); fairs and expositions (including trade and industrial fairs; the Panama Pacific Exposition; the California Pacific International Exposition; the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition; and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition); fiestas and parades (including the Fiesta de Los Angeles, the Fiesta de las Flores, and the Pasadena Tournament of Roses), circuses and circus wagons; missions in California, the Southwest United States, and Mexico; and California adobes and ranchos. Miscellaneous images include national and state parks; the California Gold Rush and mining towns; the armed forces in California; native and indigenous culture; local flora, including trees; unidentified people; unidentified scenery; documents; maps; and a small grouping of ephemera pertaining to the Wilshire Boulevard Miracle Mile. The collection includes photographs produced by 141 identified photographic studios, photographers, and publishers including Blanchard; Cromwell and Westervelt; Frasher's Studio; Garden City Foto; Harold W. Grieve, T.E. Hecht; William Henry Hill; Keystone Photo Service; Luckhaus; Charles F. Lummis; F.H. Maude; Harold Parker; Putnam Studios; F.H. Rogers; Julius Shulman; Spence Airplane Photos; Stagg; A. Sturtevant; Carleton Watkins; and "Dick" Whittington Studio. There are also photographs made by or for companies including American Trona Corporation; Douglas Aircraft; Estelle Mines Corporation; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Paramount Pictures; Selznick International Pictures; Studebaker Corporation; Union Pacific Railroad; and United Artists. Images produced and compiled by the Federal Writers' Project Southern and Northern California branches include photographs by Viroque Baker, Horace Bristol, Burton Burt, Fred William Carter, Fred R. Dapprich, Luckhaus Studios, Julius Shulman, and Art Streib.

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