Visual Materials

A treasure hunt in California and what I found

Image not available

Description: A photograph album with 90 snapshots taken throughout California. The photographs were taken during an automobile road trip through the state, with stops including Palm Springs, San Bernardino, at the Santa Barbara Mission, Mt. Rubidoux in Riverside, the Mission Inn in Riverside, and Cypress Point in Monterey. There are views of nature taken in the Crafton Hills, on the Zanja River, and in the Tehachapi Mountains. Personal visits were also made, including one to "Alderbrook," the home of Professor and Mrs. Charles R. Paine at Crafton. Three of the views are panoramas composed of three photographs mounted together.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1920
Call number: photCL 32
Provenance: Purchased from Fred Lockley, Rare Western Books, October 1946.

California

Visual Materials

Disbound album containing 48 commercial photographs of California, the majority by photographer Isaiah W. Taber, especially of San Francisco, Monterey, and Yosemite. Views of San Francisco show the bay, Fort Point, Palace Hotel, California Street Hill, a Chinese restaurant interior, a vegetable and butcher shop and a Protestant mission school in Chinatown, cable cars, Golden Gate Park, Cliff House, and snow in the city (image dated February 1887). Views of Monterey show the first barracks of U.S. troops, the Hotel del Monte, El Carmel Bay, and a cypress tree. Views of Yosemite show Glacier Point, the Lower Cascades, Yosemite Falls, El Capitan, and the North Dome. Other subjects that appear in only single images are San Rafael, Marin County; Healdsburg, Sonoma County; the J. C. Flood residence, also known as Linden Towers, in Menlo Park; Mission San Luis Rey; Mount Shasta; the Geysers, Sonoma County; Riverside; Santa Barbara; a black oak forest; a monument at the Mexico-California border; Calaveras; Mariposa Grove; a mountain lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains; Lick Observatory, near San Jose; a vineyard house; and an orange grove in Los Angeles County. Many of the photographs can be attributed to I. W. Taber; others are ascribed to "J. R. B."

photCL 159

Image not available

Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Henry Family photograph album, (bulk 1916-1918)

Visual Materials

The album, one of three depicting the Henry Family of Los Angeles, California, contains 377 photographs, primarily group portraits of the Henry family and unidentified individuals, taken on trips and outings to a variety of locations in California (Avalon and Santa Catalina Island; Ramona's marriage place [Estudillo house], Hotel del Coronado and the Panama-California Exposition, in San Diego; La Jolla; Mount Lowe; Ocean Park; Big Tujunga Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains; Sunset Beach; Little Bear Lake; Big Bear Lake; Balboa; Mount Wilson; Yosemite; Tuolumne Meadows; Tioga Pass; Tenaya Lake; Mount Rubidoux in Riverside; and Lake Tahoe) and Quebec, Canada. There are many photographs of Alexander Ellwood Henry (1890-1979) and his parents Jessie Henry and Thomas B. Henry vacationing and at their house at 1400 S. Manhattan Place, Los Angeles.

photCL 400 volume 19

Image not available

Photographs of Pacific Grove and Monterey area

Visual Materials

A photograph album containing scenic amateur views of Pacific Grove, California, and the surrounding area including Monterey. Includes views of the beach and surf, cypress trees, Point Lobos, scenes of the Chinese fishing village in Pacific Grove, exterior views of the Mission El Carmelo, the Monterey Custom House, and one of the San Carlos Cathedral (Royal Presidio Chapel). The images have brief penciled captions written in the margins.

photCL 428

Image not available

[Views of Southern California]

Visual Materials

Commercial prints mounted on three album pages depicting landscape views of Southern California including Pasadena and the San Gabriel Mountains, Riverside, Monterey, and Santa Catalina Island, with two images of trees. Five photographs have titles on the negative: "73. Snow scene on the Sierra Madre's from the Raymond"; "52. The Raymond and "Old Baldy" from Carvanza"; "120. Sugar Loaf. Catalina Island"; "82. View from the Raymond Veranda"; "Riverside from [Pa?] Mt."; "778. Looking North From Raymond Hotel. Pasadena. Cal., Parker Photo." One image of a mission building includes the photographer's imprint: "Johnson."

photOV 10765

Image not available

Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Scenes in Southern California

Visual Materials

The album is a published collection of souvenir views of Los Angeles, California, and vicinity. Included are views of Figueroa Street; Hollenbeck Home; Adams Street; West Lake Park; Palm Drive; Plaza Church; Broadway and the "old" City Hall; the "old" Court house; Chester Place; a panorama of central Los Angeles; San Gabriel Mission; Marengo Avenue in Pasadena; the Raymond Hotel; the Mount Lowe cable incline railway; the home of Ramona (Rancho Camulos in Ventura County); Avalon harbor and Santa Catalina Island; the Potter Hotel in Santa Barbara; the Santa Barbara Mission; Redlands; the Hotel Coronado in San Diego; and Magnolia Avenue in Riverside.

photCL 400 volume 26

Image not available

Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Los Angeles and Southern California

Visual Materials

The album is a published collection of souvenir views of Los Angeles and vicinity. Included are views of Figueroa Street; Hollenbeck Home; Adams Street; West Lake Park; Palm Drive; Plaza Church; Broadway and the "old" City Hall; the "old" Court house; Chester Place; a panorama of central Los Angeles; San Gabriel Mission; Marengo Avenue in Pasadena; the Raymond Hotel; the Mount Lowe cable incline railway; the home of Ramona (Rancho Camulos in Ventura County); Avalon harbor and Santa Catalina Island; the Potter Hotel in Santa Barbara; the Santa Barbara Mission; Redlands; the Hotel Coronado in San Diego; and Magnolia Avenue in Riverside.

photCL 400 volume 25

A treasure hunt in California and what I found

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

California

Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Henry Family photograph album, (bulk 1916-1918)

Photographs of Pacific Grove and Monterey area

[Views of Southern California]

Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Scenes in Southern California

Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Los Angeles and Southern California