Visual Materials

Views of Monrovia, California, and mountains

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Description: This collection contains a box of twenty-two glass plate negatives depicting various locations in Monrovia, California, and unidentified mountains presumably in Southern California. Includes single images of four different houses in Monrovia, the Pottenger Sanatorium, unidentified individuals in the mountains. Also includes copy prints, which can be paged.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1890s-approximately 1900s
Call number: photCL 273
Provenance: Purchased from Joan Perkal, September 1986.
Restrictions: NOT AVAILABLE. Glass plate negatives do not circulate. Page print copies (Box 1).
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Views of California

Visual Materials

Set of twenty-six miscellaneous commercial views of sights chiefly in Southern California, circa 1890s. Includes a few images each of a variety of locales including the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, parks including Hollenbeck Park in Los Angeles, railroad tracks, the cabin of Gus Knight Jr. in Bear Valley in the San Bernardino Mountains, with Knight and others sitting on the porch. Most of the photographs have identifying captions in pencil on the versos. The photographer is unidentified.

photCL 527

Railway passengers to Echo Mountain and other Southern California views

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Four photographs adhered to an album page. The photographs show, from top left: Mission ruins, unidentified location; bells near wooden church building, Old Town, San Diego; passengers in the Mount Lowe Railway mountain incline, coming to Echo Mountain, located in the San Gabriel mountains above Pasadena, California (sign at top of photograph says "Echo Mountain"); two palm trees and man in horse and buggy.

photCL_555_01_900

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Views of Southern California including the San Gabriel Mountains and San Diego County

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5 snapshots taken by Mary Augusta Nailen in 1925 of the Pacific Electric Railroad at Mount Lowe and Echo Mountain and the chapel at Switzer's Falls in the San Gabriel Mountains, and 4 photographic postcards depicting various tourist sites in the San Gabriel Mountains, Pasadena, and San Diego County, California. Includes one photographic postcard depicting East Green Street, Pasadena, looking East from Los Robles, 1930 (photPF 20066); one photograph of an automobile stage on road to Mount Wilson (photPF 20067); two photographic postcards by Frashers Foto, Pomona of the Old Spanish Light House, Point Loma, Calif., ca. 1931 (photPF 20068-20069); and one photographic postcard shows the highway in Encinitas, California, ca. 1929 (photPF 20070).

photPF 20061-20070

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Photographic views of the Inland Empire and Last Chance in California

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Consists of six photographs, all mounted. Locations depicted include the Eldorado Mine in Last Chance, California, a mountain peak attributed to the San Bernardino Mountains, and various sites in Riverside including Indiana Avenue and an unidentified ranch.

photPF 920-929