Views of Southern California photograph album

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  Photograph album of views of Southern California, the Southwest, and Mexico

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  One disbound photograph album, 74 pages, with approximately 230 prints depicting chiefly Southern California locations and gold mining country in Northern Mexico, taken by various photographers including C. P. Warden and Company (Los Angeles), Graham Photo Company (Los Angeles), Richard H. Kindig, Norman H. Reed (Santa Barbara), Pillsbury (Los Angeles), Gray, and unidentified photographers.

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  Photograph album of Southern California

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  This bound photograph album contains amateur snapshots depicting life in Southern California in the late 1890s. The compiler appears to have been a schoolteacher, and there are several views of school houses (the Los Angeles Normal School and the Lamanda Park schoolhouse), shots of the interior of an elementary school classroom and class, and outings with schoolchildren. There are also images of Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations, camping in the local mountains (including the Echo Mountain trolley), and at the beaches and various cities such as downtown Los Angeles, Pasadena, Redondo, San Gabriel, Lamanda Park, and Catalina. There is a series of views depicting Redondo, California, including beach cottages, the local casino, tent camping, and Biona [Ballona ?] Bay. There are also two images depicting a Chinese vegetable seller and butcher with their delivery wagons. The first part of the album contains handwritten captions.

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  Photograph album of teenage students, possibly in Southern California, and views of a trip to Japan

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  A photograph album of unidentified young women and men, most likely in Southern California, who appear to be school friends or family members. Snapshots show teenagers in front of a large building, in group gatherings and picnicking, as well as in several studio portraits. One portrait shows a teenage girl in a head covering, wearing a cross, possibly related to a convent or Catholic communion. A set of negatives (no prints) found inside the album depict people on a visit to Japan. Scenes include tourists visiting temples, a man riding in a rickshaw, and a woman wearing a kimono, showing ikebana.

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  Family photograph albums of Pasadena and Southern California

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  Two photograph albums containing approximately 685 photographs showing chiefly residences, residents, and scenes of Pasadena and Southern California, most taken by unidentified photographers; the albums are probably connected to the William S. Windham (1864-1915) family.

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  Photograph album of motor sports in Southern California

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  A photograph album of people with their motorcycles and automobiles, on outdoor excursions in Southern California in the early-20th century. Most images have writing on the back and feature a group of two men and two women named Eleanor, Hazel, Otto, and Russell (surnames unknown). In one photograph, they stand next to their motorcycles, wearing goggles, with pennants reading: "1915 San Francisco," "Riverside," and "Redlands," presumably in the midst of a road trip. Otto is also seen standing in front of a "New Era Motor Cycle" store in Redlands, California, and pushing his motorcycle with a spare tire strapped to the front. Other images include riders in an automobile in Tijuana, Mexico, 1915; visiting Big Bear Lake and dam; and a caravan of automobiles driving up a mountain road. Three photographs at Lake Arrowhead feature an Essex Motor Company automobile painted with advertising reading: "The N-Durance Essex, driven by Charles H. Holdson," 1923.

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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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