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Los Angeles
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Photographs of Chinatown in Los Angeles (Items 58-132) depict parades and festivities including the first Fiesta de Los Angeles (1894) and the Feast of the Dead in Los Angeles (1902); street scenes including views of people and of businesses, such as the the Los Angeles Hay Market (Items 83-84); a glimpse of the Water Department on Marchessault Street (Item 86); the Mon Chong and Company storefront on Apablasa Street, one with Percival's mother in front (Items 102-103); the Guan Sun Company and Chop Suey Café; views of a parade and of Marchessault Street dated 1929 (Items 123-128); and photographs depicting Chinese graves and a Chinese tomb in the Evergreen Cemetery (Items 129-133).
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O. V. Lange's Views of San Francisco and other photographs
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Seven cabinet card photographs of buildings and streets in San Francisco, including the Chinese Joss House and St. Lewis Alley, Chinatown. Also two photographs of Hotel Brockway, Lake Tahoe; one cabinet card of a wooden Catholic church and bungalow with priest standing in front, El Rio, California.
photPF 630-639
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Album of studio portraits from Sacramento and San Francisco
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A commercial album with 21 studio portraits of unidentified men, women, and children by photographers in Sacramento and San Francisco, California, consisting of 19 cartes-de-visite and 2 tintypes. There is one group portrait with two adults and a child. One sitter is identified on the verso as "Mr. Silver Tegarian."
photCL 168
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Subseries B. Chinatowns, Los Angeles and San Francisco
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The Olive Percival Collection of Photographs contains approximately 875 photographs of California and Mexico, chiefly cyanotype snapshots and gelatin silver prints of locations in Los Angeles and environs and Mexico City, taken chiefly by Olive Percival (1869-1945) from approximately 1880-1941; many of the photographs contain captions written on versos by Percival. The photographs of California depict San Pedro scenes; Chinatowns in Los Angeles and San Francisco; exterior and interior views of Percival's home, collections, and garden; and cemeteries in Los Angeles. The collection also includes two sepia portraits of Percival as a young woman; one photograph of Percival with her mother; images of Indian basket collections that she used in writing articles; and photographs depicting various people and locations, chiefly in Los Angeles and environs, taken by Percival and by commercial photographers, including a set of studio portraits featuring various sitters. Photographs of Mexico depict various views of Mexico City and other areas of Mexico, including Juarez; Toluca; Guadalupe; Teotihuacan; Tocuba; Vera Cruz; Texcoco; Tlaxcola; and other locations.
photCL 217
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Chinese Josh-House, S. F., Cal
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Cabinet card showing an eye-level view of the storefront of a two-story building in San Francisco, California, decorated with banners in Chinese, and identified as a joss house, or Chinese temple.
photPF 20828
Secretary of Seminole tribe, and his family
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Adults and children posed on the lawn outside a wooden log house.
photCL 275 fld. 26 (16)