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Residences and views

Description

Includes photographs depicting residences, commercial and municipal buildings, streets, and gardens, landscaping and agriculture in and around South Pasadena, chiefly in the 1920s.

Views of the exteriors of residences include the Adobe Flores, with several people posing near the entrance, one of whom is an African American woman (Items 1-2); the home of Mrs. G. W. Childs on Buena Vista Street (Item 3); the building of hand weaver LuVerne S. Reid (Item 5); and Casa de Helecho (Items 6-7), as well as some interior views of an unidentified home (Items 21). There are also street views, often showing road work, including an image of construction on Pacific Electric train tracks on Huntington Drive (Item 25).

Views of the exteriors of commercial and civic buildings in South Pasadena include: the Graham and Mohr Opera House (with the Minier Gas Heater Co. storefront) at 913-917 El Centro Street (Items 50-51); the W.S. Adamson Co. real estate office at 1019 El Centro Street (Item 51); the Home Bank building (Item 52); the Hotel Capitola (Item 53); crowds at the Rialto Theatre (Items 54-55); the Fair Oaks Public Market and Martin & Lane car dealership (Item 56); the Willard Garage, advertising Hupmobile service (Item 57); the South Pasadena Garage and Daily Record building (Items 58-59); the Harry W. Weber radio store at 1009 1/2 Fair Oaks Avenue (Item 60); the Zane Drug Company and South Pasadena Public Market storefronts in the A.C. Ong building at Fair Oaks Avenue and Mission Street (Item 61); the Live Hardware Co. storefront in the A.R. Graham Building on Mission Street (Item 62 and Item 82); the storefront of E.A. Merritt, Jeweler, at 1524 Mission Street (Item 63); the interior of a tailor shop (Item 64); the Mission Hotel building under construction (Item 65); interior and exterior views of a restaurant (Items 66-67); Turner, Stevens & Berry undertakers building (Item 68) and funeral home (Items 69-70); the South Pasadena Library, including a photograph of a drawing of the floorplan for an addition (Items 84-86); the Memorial Baptist Church at El Centro and Mound Street (Items 94); and the South Pasadena City High School (Items 95-96). In addition there are photographs featuring a salt works (Items 75-76) and a few views of storefronts in Pasadena, including: the James H. Kindel car dealership at 1095 Colorado Street (Items 77-78); Bagnard Hardware at 152 East Colorado Street (Item 79); and the Rust Furniture Co. (Items 80-81).

Notably, several photographs show crowds at retail establishments holding clearance or going-out-of-business sales, including hardware stores and the Rust Furniture Company (Items 62 and 79-82). Other single images include a sign for the Oneonta Hills subdivision (Item 24); a desert home (Item 48); two men posing in front of a produce truck with "N. Nishimoto" on the door (Item 71); a California Transfer and Storage truck (Item 72); a dairy and the Arroyo Verde Springs in the Arroyo Seco (Items 73 and 74); and laborers with a wagon loaded with orange crates (Item 83). There are also a few views of orchards, fields, and the seacoast in unidentified locations. There are two copy images of Moxhull Hall, the residence of Henry Fisher, in Warwickshire, England (Items 182-183).

Item 39 does not exist; the number was unintentionally skipped.

Type
Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date
approximately 1908-1937
Call number
photCL 281
Creator
Kenny, Herbert J(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of City of South Pasadena, 1985.
Restrictions
Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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