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Photograph album of unidentified family, house and garden, possibly in Southern California

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Description: A family photograph album of 23 mounted albumen prints of a house and large garden with statuary, potted palms, and planting beds decorated with conch shells. The house sits on a tree-lined road, and there are three interior photographs of rooms with Victorian furnishings and decor. There is a portrait of a well-dressed man, and another with four young men and women, presumably his family. The women are posed with a little girl in another photograph, and there is a group portrait of 10 people on a lawn tennis court, holding rackets. Some photographs in the garden focus on specific plants, particularly palms, and there are some scenic views of a canyon and stream. There are no identifications in the album, and the album's compiler and photographer are unknown.
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Production date: approximately 1890s
Call number: photCL 367
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Unidentified family photograph album

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A commercially produced carte-de-visite photograph album compiled by an unidentified person containing cartes-de-visite, tintype, and cabinet card portraits of men, women, and children. Photographers imprints are from the East Coast including Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut. There are also five additional loose card photographs: a portrait of United States President James A. Garfield, captioned "Our Late President," and one of his wife, Lucretia Garfield by "Pell"; photographs of a family in front of a log-cabin house and a two-story house; and a photograph by S. Marksville of people standing in the front of the C.C. Lass shop, presumably in New York, with an Indian statue on the sidewalk and illustrated newspaper covers displayed in the windows.

photCL 501

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S. A. Minnich photograph album of a Church of the Brethren family in Southern California

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An album of 103 photographs documenting the years 1905 to 1907 in the life of a young man from a large Church of the Brethren family who settled in Southern California. The album is signed "S. A. Minnich, 752 Hull St., Pasadena" on the inside back cover, and large groups of family and friends are seen posed in front of houses, though the people are not identified. Handwritten captions indicate locations and dates of sites across Southern California, including the train depot at Port Los Angeles, the Lordsburg train depot (now in La Verne), downtown Long Beach, Riverside Cactus Garden, picnics in Eaton Canyon, and the Ocean Park Bath House. Many scenes are in Pasadena, showing houses on Hudson and Hull streets, grand homes on Orange Grove Boulevard, the 1906 Tournament of Roses parade, Hotel Green, the Pasadena Library, and Busch Gardens, which opened in 1906. There are also photographs of the First Brethren Church in Los Angeles, and the Baptist Brethren Church on Hull Street in Pasadena.

photCL 689

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Beecher Family photograph album

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An album of 45 carte-de-visite photographs dating from the 1850s-1870s, containing portraits of the Beecher family of New England, as well as abolitionists Lucretia Mott, Robert Collyer and unidentified men, women and children. Subjects include: Charles Beecher (1815-1900), page 3, and Lyman Beecher (1775-1863), page 29, the brother and father, respectively, of noted author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe (who does not appear). Two portraits of anti-slavery and women's rights activist Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) are on pages 19 and 20, one a familiar seated view and another more unusual view of her sitting behind a table with her hand on an open book. A portrait of a young Robert Collyer (1823-1912), the clergyman and abolitionist, appears on page 37, with his name written in ink on the mount (the only photograph that appears to have writing on it). The album itself has no writing except for some flower sketches; identifications have been made largely through research, and there may be other Beecher family or friends represented. Other views include three portraits of men in military uniforms, and two portraits of a little girl with a doll.

photCL 175

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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.

photCL 363

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Unidentified house and garden (California)

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Architect: Unidentified Description: Exterior and garden views of Spanish style home.

photCL 415

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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.

photCL 468

Photograph album of unidentified family, house and garden, possibly in Southern California

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