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Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition photograph album
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Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition photograph album
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A collection of photographs of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition of 1905 in Portland, Oregon. The photographs are primarily 7 x 9 in., with a few smaller, and are stamped with the credit "1905 - Kiser Photo. Co." or "1905 L&C Exposition." Images include overviews of the buildings and grounds, with visitors walking about; indoor exhibits; a statue of Sacagawea; and the landscaped gardens of the exposition.
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Lewis and Clark Exposition : approximately 1905
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A souvenir album with 26 pages of commercial photographs of buildings, chiefly exteriors, as well as some of the exhibitions, statues, and natural landscape from the Lewis and Clark Exposition of 1905 in Portland, Oregon.
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Album of photographs of Portland, Oregon, and environs
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A photograph album with 32 photographs of Portland, Oregon, and the surrounding area. Photographs include waterfalls, winter scenes in the countryside, and grazing cows, as well as a portrait of "Princess Wal-lu-lah" which was reproduced in photographer Lee Moorhouse's "Souvenir Album of Noted Indian Photographs" (1905) as "Princess We-a-lole, Cayuse Maiden"; sweeping view of Portland and Mt. Hood; the capsized French 4-masted bark "Asie" at Davidge's Whart in Portland (this ship capsized in December of 1901); the "Needles" (aka "Pillars of Hercules") rock formations that flank the railroad tracks along the Hood River; H. A. MacNeil's bronze statue "Coming of the White Man" in Washington Park in Portland and views of Multnomah Falls in Oregon; and two buildings under construction from the Lewis and Clark Exposition of 1905 (the Agricultural Building and the Oriental Building).
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Album. Portland and the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition; Seattle and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
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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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Singleton Court photograph album
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An album of 50 photographs of Singleton Court, the residence of mining businessman John Singleton, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles, California. The home was located at 2400 South Flower Street and was designed by architect Carroll H. Brown in 1887. After buying the house in 1900, Singleton hired Pasadena photographer William H. Hill to photograph the house, stable, and garden, and had the 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inch prints mounted into this album. The leather cover is embossed "Singleton Court" and the first page is inscribed: "A memento, to Stella, from Singleton." The photographs include house exteriors and furnished interiors, landscaped grounds with tropical plants, a clock tower, a summer house, a palm-lined driveway, one view of a Mexican employee, a carriage, and one image of Singleton in formal attire with his two dogs, in front of the house. Singleton's handwritten captions are throughout the album.
photCL 270
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Singleton Court photograph album
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