Family photograph albums with scenes from Illinois, Maine, Nebraska, California, and New Mexico | Collections | The Huntington

Family photograph albums with scenes from Illinois, Maine, Nebraska, California, and New Mexico | Collections | The Huntington

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Colonel Charles Cotesworth Thomas family album with scenes of Southern California
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A family album with 53 photographs showing the family of mining superintendent Colonel Charles Cotesworth Thomas and his wife, Mary Sue Thomas, in Southern California. The images, chiefly cyanotypes, show the family camping, swimming, fishing, hunting, sailing, and in humorous poses primarily on Santa Catalina Island. The album pages have been decorated with hand-drawn black ink illustrations that fit the subject of the photographs. These elements may be the work of artist Annie Loring Bancroft, daughter or stepdaughter of Col. Thomas. Identified family members include the Thomas children: Francis J. Thomas, Chester Thomas, and Bancroft. Pasted at the back of the album are larger prints of the Redondo Hotel in Redondo Beach; two images of a young child with kittens captioned "Flash light" presumably taken with flash photography; a group portrait of Bancroft with friends on the lawn in front of the "Casa Figueroa" house at the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Figueroa Street; an elevated view of Santa Monica Canyon showing Grimminger's Pavilion; and two photographs taken in Japan, one at a tomb in Nikko.
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Album of photographs recording a motorcar journey from Nebraska to central California in 1913
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Fascinating photographic record of an early road trip from Nebraska through Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and into California. A typed slip affixed to the front pastedown reads "'A fine trip with many hard knocks,' From Wausa, Nebr. to Turlock, Cal." There were four vehicles in the caravan, traversing unpaved tracks through the largely undeveloped Southwest, an uncommon feat at the time. The photographs include views of Starvation Peak, N.M.; a New Mexican Village; Springerville, Arizona with the Reagan Hotel; camp near Ft. Apache, Arizona; am automobile "hospital" at Dome City, Arizona; the Roosevelt Dam; a camp near San Diego, Cal.; etc.
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[Photograph album of scenes in Mexico]
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Photograph album with various snapshots chiefly documenting a trip to Mexico by Los Angeles, California, resident Charles A. Finlayson around 1930, including images of buildings and streets in Mexico City, a visit to a park with deer, buildings under construction, the canals of Xochimilco, and Aztec ruins at Teotihuacan, as well as images, presumably, of Finlayson. Throughout the album, there are also images of the derailment of a locomotive and train cars, presumably of the National Railroad of Mexico, which were carrying military cannons, with photographs of executed men who had been hanged from utility poles along the tracks.
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Items 708-713: Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, and California
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This collection contains photographs by historian Ralph P. Bieber documenting the central overland route to California as it appeared in the 1950s. Bieber visited the sites in conjunction with a project to record every aspect of the trails and circumstances associated with the migration of people to California during the Gold Rush years and subsequently. The images document the route through Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and California. Bieber organized and annotated the photographs himself, and his original order, based primarily on print size, has been maintained. Additionally, Bieber created photographic categories such as "Donner Party Sites," "Gold Discovery Sites," and "Sites associated with John C. Frémont." Note that Bieber did not arrange the photographs geographically.
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Nebraska; Nevada; New Mexico
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Portraits in Nebraska include: a man holding a cat; workers with tools (possibly plumbers); girls with large hoops; soldiers. Nevada portraits include: a soldier with sword; two boys with two sheep.
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Album of views of Southern California, New Mexico, and Colorado
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An album of 115 amateur photographs of people and places, chiefly in Southern California, New Mexico, and Colorado, presumably kept by civil engineer Edwin B. Davey (1893-1961) in the 1910s. Subjects mainly appear to reflect Davey's work surveying for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad in the American Southwest and recreational activities in Southern California. Snapshots include six photographs of a U. S. Navy seaplane (labeled "Santa Barbara Fiesta," July 3-6, 1919); three photographs showing houses of Davey and his wife, Genevieve Davey, including at 1418 Ivy Street in Glendale, California; two photographs of "picking beans" in Oxnard, California, October 1918; four photographs showing a parade near the Glendale Pacific Electric Station; American soldiers in an unidentified camp and on a trip to Mexico in September 1917; ten photographs of Ralph DePalma racing in the Santa Monica Road Race in March 1919; six photographs of a group of women swimming and in a rowboat near the Long Beach pier; an unidentified train derailment showing a Pullman car labeled "Antonio," which has "Rock Iland [i.e. Rock Island] #6" written on one of the images; images of men with surveying equipment, including one identified as Las Vegas engineers in 1913, and scenes of railroad construction and surveying at Raton, New Mexico, including a railroad tunnel identified as "Raton Pass Tunnel," and the Colorado/New Mexico state line; a group and individual portraits of the baseball team of Central High School presumably in Pueblo, Colorado; and studio and amateur portraits of young men. In addition, there are a few snapshots of the desert including the Cajon Wash and Hesperia, California, and people at various train stations, such as Colorado Springs, Colorado; Long Beach, California; and Lamy, New Mexico.
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