Student scrapbook of Cumnock School of Expression, Los Angeles

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  Irma Rogers nursing school scrapbook

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  This disbound scrapbook documents the student experience of Irma Rogers at Paradise Valley Sanitarium and Hospital School of Nursing, 1944 to 1947, in National City, San Diego County, California. The scrapbook contains photographs, notes from fellow students, copies of the school newsletter, graduation cards, memorabilia, and official correspondence from the school. It includes Rogers' 1944 acceptance letter; school evaluations; and her Registered Nurse certificate, 1947. Five issues of the school newsletter describe school activities, students, instructors, and where graduates are working. Much of the album contains snapshots of Rogers and her student friends with humorous captions, and there are some group photographs of nurses, including a group of Asian nurses with American soldiers. A clipping from 1967 announces the 20-year reunion of the class of 1947. Also of note is an inscription from a student who signs her name using gay slang.

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  Los Angeles High School students, class of 1887

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  This is a collection primarily of negatives and photographic prints depicting the growth of Santa Monica and Los Angeles, California, from 1860s to 1980s. Many views are cityscapes or street views, showing buildings, storefronts, homes and roads, and documenting the use of railroads, trolleys, streetcars, and automobiles. There are many card photographs by early professional photographers, and also a number of snapshots made by amateurs, some in personal photo albums. The collection's scope also includes early views of many other communities in Southern California (and a few in other states); the beginnings of aviation in Santa Monica, including the first Douglas Aircraft Company buildings; a photo album of residents in Topanga Canyon, ca. 1913; automobile racing in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, 1920s; maritime views; a photo album of U.S. troops in France during World War I; a 1949 real estate development in Apple Valley, California, and others. Besides photographs, a portion of the collection consists of scarce publications and historical ephemera, primarily related to Santa Monica and Los Angeles, including brochures, advertising cards, menus, event programs and other materials. Highlights of the Santa Monica images are aerial views of the buildings along the coast and pier (1920s); several views of the Arcadia Hotel (1880s); the Long Wharf and adjoining railroad and train depot; the first bath houses on the beach; the beach club culture of the 1920s and 1930s; the amusement piers of Santa Monica, Ocean Park and Venice; and the beginnings of the Douglas Aircraft Company. There is a large set of promotional photographs made late 1920s-1930s by Powell Press Service depicting people enjoying Santa Monica's beaches, clubs and outdoor recreation. An important subset within the collection is 407 negatives made ca. 1890 - 1908 by Los Angeles historian and amateur photographer George W. Hazard (1842-1914). Hazard travelled around Los Angeles and vicinity photographing the adobes, houses, streets and storefronts that told the early history of the city. Many of Hazard's negatives have handwritten identifications, naming streets, former homeowners, ranchos, and other historical details. There are a large number of cabinet cards and other card-mounted prints and stereographs. There are 1,264 stereograph prints, highlighted by the works of photographic pioneers William M. Godfrey, Francis Parker, Hayward & Muzzall, and Carleton Watkins. Other formats represented are: glass and film negatives; panoramic prints; 7 photograph albums, photographic postcards, 20th-century color prints and transparencies; and a small number of tintypes, cyanotypes and a set of chromolithographs.

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  Los Angeles Wheelmen scrapbook

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  A disbound scrapbook and four additional folders containing photographs, newspaper clippings, and some ephemera related to the Los Angeles Wheelmen bicycle club and bicycling in Los Angeles, California, from the late 1880s to about 1940. Items include assorted photographs of bicyclists, races and events, photographs of different bicycle styles including high wheel, tandem and safety styles, ephemeral items such as dealer cards, greeting cards with images of bicycles, advertisements for races and events, and bicycle history-related newspaper clippings. The materials date from the late 1880s to the 1930s. Among the images are photographs of T. Alvan Luter (1886); members of the Oberon Bicycle Club; F. Florentin (1900); Frank Pearne (1900); Frank Haeney (1921); Jessie Brunson, the owner of the second women's bicycle shop in Alhambra; the Lee Chambers Bike Shop in Santa Monica (1899), and the Main Spring Salon storefront at the junction of Spring and Main Street in Los Angeles (1902). The collection includes some correspondence and envelopes addressed to Clyde Hafer of Los Angeles around 1940, suggesting that he may have been the scrapbook's compiler. In addition there is a copy of the August 8, 1896, issue of the Washington Cyclist periodical; a bicycle catalog booklet of the Appeal Mfg. & Jobbing Company (titled "Greetings 1908: Appeal to the Earth is the Echo"); and a booklet, "Food Facts" by Donald B. Armstrong (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1917).

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  Robert Hutton Santa Monica High School album and scrapbook

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  82 photographs, primarily of student actors in costume, with handwritten captions by Robert Hutton and fellow drama student Lysbeth Le Fevre. Other material: Clippings about plays from "The Samohi" student newspaper; S.M.H.S. theater programs; 1918 commencement program ("George Robert Hutton" listed in graduating class); student name cards; class songs; drama teacher William Lee Greenleaf; Hutton and friends in Topanga Canyon, Mt. Wilson, Bear Valley, and Berkeley, Ca.

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  Clark University "School Silhouettes" scrapbook and photograph album

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  A collection of three photograph albums, one college scrapbook, 103 loose photographs, and ephemera documenting the education, family life, teaching career, and travels of Mamie Marie Walton-Jackson (1916-2009). The materials span approximately from 1916 to 1968. The college scrapbook includes images, lists, and ephemera representing Walton-Jackson, her classmates, instructors, and campus life. The three photograph albums cover Jackson's wedding day, her husband, her son Durante, family-related events; her career as a home economics instructor at Buford High School from nineteen fifty one through nineteen fifty two, pupils, fellow instructors; and vacations in the West and Southwest. The loose photographs and ephemera cover the aforementioned areas. The six pieces of loose ephemera include a Mother's Day card from her son, a newspaper clipping about her niece Janice, a cable car ornament, a napkin from the Buford High School 1953 Junior-Senior Prom, a small Faculty label, and a small Clark College label. Among the photograph albums and loose photographs are color as well as hand-colored images of a younger Mamie, Jerry, Durante, and friends and family.

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  [Los Angeles High School students]

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  The Huntington Library's Collection of Panoramic Photographs, 1851 to 2014, depicts a wide variety of subjects and provides an important resource for the visual history of the United States, with a particular emphasis on California and the American West. Subjects include landscapes, group portraits, and miscellaneous views. The collection also contains photographs by some of the better known photographers and photographic firms of the first part of the twentieth century. Photographers and publishers represented in the collection include Charles Z. Bailey; Bailey and Ramsey; Bryant Studio; Bunnell Photo Shop; California Panorama Company; Bell Clements; Fay Foto Service; R.J. Gallagher; George. R. Lawrence Company; J.D. Givens; Gordon Panoramic Photo Company; Griffith Photo; Harris Photographic Company; Karen Halverson; George W. Hazard; L.M. Hermance; Hiller; Hughes Photos; William Henry Jackson; I.L. Maduro; Mayhart Studio; C.R. Nock; Panorama Publishing Company; Pettit's Studio; Photo News Service; C.C. Pierce; A.C. Pillsbury; Pillsbury Picture Company; Prince Photo; G.H. Rice; H.H. Rideout; Sanford and Black Photo News Service; Thompson; O.A. Tunnell; H.A. Varble; Miles F. Weaver; and West Coast Art Company. Notable in the collection is a contemporary four-plate ambrotype in a frame; it is a panoramic view of the Los Angeles River, 2014, by Michael Kolster (photPAN 147).

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