Family photograph albums of Pasadena and Southern California

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Flag Studio Collection of Pasadena and Southern California Photographs
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A set of approximately 1300 photographs of people chiefly depicting Pasadena and environs and other areas of Southern California, collected and presumably taken by Flag Studios of Pasadena, California, from approximately 1909-1967; the collection comprises approximately 1100 negatives, chiefly glass plate negatives, and approximately 200 prints. The photographs of Pasadena and environs include views of streets, buildings, parades and athletic events, parks, residences, and businesses. Other depictions of Pasadena include a few photographs showing Pasadena High School graduation ceremonies in 1929 and 1930 and its athletic teams, with some images including Lester Groetzinger of Flag Studios. Photographs of other areas in California include views of residences in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills; Catalina Island; Long Beach; the shoreline in Santa Monica; Glendale, including various images of people; one image of a horse-drawn United States mail wagon at the post office in La Cañada (1910); and other views. Notably, there are several photographs depicting oil well fires, including images from Santa Fe Springs in 1922, and earthquakes, including images from an earthquake in Inglewood in 1920 and strips of 35mm film, possibly depicting scenes from before and after an earthquake in 1933. One set of negatives depicting buildings, businesses, and people was numbered in sequence (though several items in the sequence are missing), and one set was found in an envelope labeled "from Lankershim album." The collection also includes a few images of Indians at a railroad station in Arizona and several views of Mexicali, Mexico. Photographs of people include images from a party, possibly of Shriners, and portraits of musicians, police, and sailors. Though most of these images are of unidentified people, one set of photographs identifies its subjects and includes studio and outdoor portraits, some featuring people in formal dress; two photographs of a Japanese American man; and two images containing holiday greetings. The collection also includes photographs depicting scenes from unidentified locations, including people, landscapes, mountains, buildings, deserts, dwellings, storefronts, vehicles, U.S. Navy and Army, camping, bicycle races, musicians, period furniture, and various other views.
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Photograph albums of the Rix and Maurer Families
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The collection consists of six photograph albums of the Rix and Maurer families depicting life in Northern California and the San Francisco Bay area. Volume 1 (disbound) contains 48 cartes-de-visite portraits of classmates of Annie Rix in San Francisco, ca. 1874; Volume 2: disbound album of 26 cartes-de-visite portraits related to the Rix family, ca. 1860s-1880s; Volume 3: Yosemite snapshots, June 1905 (58 photographs; prints various sizes in album 19 x 27 cm); Volume 4: Snapshots, 1870s-1915 of family, friends, social gatherings, residences, and pets in San Francisco and Berkeley, including views of the buildings at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915 (approx. 290 photographs; prints various sizes, album 18 x 28 cm); Volume 5: photograph album of Mildred Maurer, 1912-1916 with photographs of Lake Chabot in Piedmont Park, Diamond Canyon, and Yosemite (approximately 122 photographs; prints various sizes, album 19 x 27 cm); Volume 6: images taken in France in 1919 during World War I and in California in 1920 (approx. 300 photographs; prints various sizes, album 18.5 x 29 cm).
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Photograph album of Northern California residence and grounds
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A family photograph album with snapshots of a large residence, smaller dwellings and extensive grounds, in what appears to be the San Francisco Bay Area, California. There are many views of a main house and details of landscaping, woods, and vegetation, with several close-ups of harvested fruit and vegetables. Unidentified men, women and children appear in scenes on the property, and children are seen swimming in an unusual above-ground concrete swimming pool next to a small house with bamboo siding and fencing. The album begins with photographs of a street and long driveway, with the address "2000" on a stone. The main house pictured is a large Swiss-chalet style residence, with some elements of Arts and Crafts style architecture, situated on a hill, with a view. Interior views show rich furnishings, tapestries, and a large kitchen with canning jars set out for fruit. The house and its residents are unidentified.
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Album of photographs of Los Angeles County, California, and Denver, Colorado
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An album with approximately 250 photographs of Los Angeles County, California, and Denver, Colorado. Views of Los Angeles and vicinity include street scenes, oil derricks, Angel's Flight, the North Beach Bath House and Bowling Pavilion in Santa Monica, Arcadia Hotel in Santa Monica, Castle Green in Pasadena, and Cawston Ostrich Farm and its solar-powered engine, the "Solar Motor" (a cone-shaped reflector used to collect and focus sunlight). Views of Denver include the State Capitol building and the BPO Elks Golden Jubilee celebration, held in 1914. Several winter scenes (probably from Colorado) feature large groups ice-skating. There are views of unidentified rural landscapes of plains, farms, and railroad tracks through wooded areas. A photograph near the end is labeled "A study in bronze" and shows six Native American children seated on two donkeys with a Native American man standing nearby.
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S. A. Minnich photograph album of a Church of the Brethren family in Southern California
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An album of 103 photographs documenting the years 1905 to 1907 in the life of a young man from a large Church of the Brethren family who settled in Southern California. The album is signed "S. A. Minnich, 752 Hull St., Pasadena" on the inside back cover, and large groups of family and friends are seen posed in front of houses, though the people are not identified. Handwritten captions indicate locations and dates of sites across Southern California, including the train depot at Port Los Angeles, the Lordsburg train depot (now in La Verne), downtown Long Beach, Riverside Cactus Garden, picnics in Eaton Canyon, and the Ocean Park Bath House. Many scenes are in Pasadena, showing houses on Hudson and Hull streets, grand homes on Orange Grove Boulevard, the 1906 Tournament of Roses parade, Hotel Green, the Pasadena Library, and Busch Gardens, which opened in 1906. There are also photographs of the First Brethren Church in Los Angeles, and the Baptist Brethren Church on Hull Street in Pasadena.
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Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Henry Family photograph album
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The album, one of three depicting the Henry Family of Los Angeles, California, contains 403 snapshots, presumably compiled by Alexander Ellwood Henry (1890-1979) and primarily consisting of group portraits of the Henry family and unidentified individuals between 1907 and 1916. The photographs reflect trips and outings to a variety of locations in California (Santa Catalina Island, Pasadena, Venice, Los Angeles, Big Bear, Yosemite, San Francisco), as well as Niagara Falls, Canada, Europe, and Japan. There are many images of Henry and his friends as teenagers and young adults. Among the images are photographs of Henry's brother Thomas Cecil Henry (died 1910) as a student at Stanford around 1908-1910, the Henry home at 1400 S. Manhattan Place in Los Angeles, and individuals at the beach.
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Flag Studio Collection of Pasadena and Southern California Photographs

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Album of photographs of Los Angeles County, California, and Denver, Colorado

S. A. Minnich photograph album of a Church of the Brethren family in Southern California

Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Henry Family photograph album