Standard Felt Company, Alhambra, California, photographs

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  A group of 76 photographs, approximately 1910s-1930s, of the Standard Felt Company, 29-115 Palm Avenue, Alhambra, California. Images depict buildings, workers, and the felt manufacturing process, including workers picking through bales of wool and using heavy machinery. Some images of women workers, and products made by the company. A two-page typed history of the company by an unknown author accompanies the collection. Also includes two boxes of glass plate negatives.

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  Glass plate negatives

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  A group of 76 photographs, approximately 1910s-1930s, of the Standard Felt Company, 29-115 Palm Avenue, Alhambra, California. Images depict buildings, workers, and the felt manufacturing process, including workers picking through bales of wool and using heavy machinery. Some images of women workers, and products made by the company. A two-page typed history of the company by an unknown author accompanies the collection. Also includes two boxes of glass plate negatives.

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  Panoramic photograph of farm workers in Orange County, California

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  A panoramic photograph documenting about 100 agricultural workers, including men, women, and children, of an unidentified farm in Orange County, California, taken between approximately 1900 and 1920. The photograph features mostly white workers, but there are several Latino men, possibly Mexican migrant workers, and about fifteen women and girls. Some workers are holding tools or equipment, wearing slings for picking fruit, or handling horses. Behind the two rows of people are stacks of wooden crates labeled "F Co.," along with a wagon of hay and a two-story wooden building. The photograph is not captioned, but has a small photographer's label crediting commercial photographer F. D. Leonard of Santa Ana, California.

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  Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Photographs of representative service installations of subsidiary companies

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  Photographs of Electrical Distribution as well as operations involving industry and industrial consumers, agriculture (farming, dairy, poultry, irrigation, alfalfa, cantaloupes, lettuce), mining, rural electrification, and hotels and resorts. Areas encompass Riverside, San Bernardino, Corona, Elsinore, Brawley, El Centro, and Calexico (Mexicali Light and Power); Mining customers in Tonopah, Goldfield, and Randsburg; Hotels and Resorts, including El Mirador, Desert Inn, La Quinta, Barbara Worth, Planters, Belvedere Inn, Soba Hot Springs, Loma Linda Sanitarium, Casa Del Deserito. Photographs of workers picking and packing American Beauty brand cantaloupes and lettuce. A typescript table of contents is at the beginning of the album and each photograph is introduced by a typescript description.

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  The main lobby of the new Fifth and Grand General Office Building expressed the pride and confidence the Company felt despite the Depression

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  The main lobby of the new Fifth and Grand General Office Building expressed the pride and confidence the Company felt despite the Depression. Pg. 166.

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  Standard Felt Company letters to Edmund B. Holladay

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  The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay, and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. Series 2. Henry E. Huntington and his family includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. Also included are the blueprints for the Huntington's San Marino residence. Series 3. Correspondence contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning 1794 to 1970. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.

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