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Carl L. May photograph album of Southern California

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Description: A photograph album of snapshots of the life of Carl L. May: his friends, family and associates in Southern California, and his activities at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Includes views of college students in athletic teams (football, rugby, and track and field teams), house parties and group portraits. There are photographs of outings to trails and camps at Mount Wilson, Santa Catalina Island, and Santa Monica. Most of the photographs have handwritten notes identifying the individuals and locations. There are some photographs of May's parents, brother (Harold), and other family members. Scattered throughout the album are small commercial photographs of the Pan Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. There are a small number of photographs of sightseeing trips to New York, particularly Buffalo and Niagara Falls. A program for the 1941 U.S.C. Homecoming football dinner, honoring the team of 1916, is mounted at the end.
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Production date: 1889-1941 (bulk 1912-1915)
Call number: photCL 369

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.

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Colonel John E. Parker photograph album of a family trip to California

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An album of photographs, postcards, pasted clippings, and ephemera documenting a family's automobile trip from Massachusetts to California in the winter of 1937-1938. John E. Parker, and presumably his wife, Laura, and her sister, and the Parker's teenage son, John Jr. (and their cat), are seen at various stops in California, identified by signs or landmarks, as there are no captions in the album. In Pasadena, they went to the Rose Parade on January 1, 1938 (program included in the album), and tried to get tickets to the Rose Bowl football game (returned check and letter in album). Other places visited in California include Hollywood, Palm Springs, Laguna Beach, Santa Anita Park Racetrack, and San Francisco. There are 73 souvenir photographic postcards and 96 photomechanical postcards with printed titles, of California, and also Arkansas, Texas, and Arizona. Notable are two photographs of an indigent man and his dog-drawn wagon. The back of the album has a cartoon sketch of the family in an overloaded car, heading home.

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Carl Moon Collection of Family Photographs and Ephemera

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This collection focuses on the personal lives of photographer Carl Moon and his wife Grace, who wrote a series of children's books revolving around Hopi and Navajo culture in the Southwest. There are several portraits of both of them, some taken by Carl, as well as portraits of other Moon relatives. A photo/clipping album contains many scenes of their early home life in Pasadena, California, with their two children, along with clippings about their careers. There is one view of Grace Moon at El Tovar studio in the Grand Canyon. Another album details several generations of the Moon family in photographs dating from the mid-19th to early-20th centuries. The photos are identified in ink or pencil, and there is one baby photo of Carl Moon. There are several photographs of Moon's mother, Lucy Brunetta Moon, and five of her daily diaries. Also included are reproductions of artwork by Grace Moon, and some original drawings by Ernest Moon (Carl's brother). An interesting commercial item is a 1909 brochure for Hotel El Tovar at the Grand Canyon featuring photographs of the hotel (it's unclear if they were taken by Moon).

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Henry Curtis Morris photograph album of Nevada and California mining

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An album of 160 photographs of mining life and towns in Nevada and California from 1904-1912, with many images of mining camps in and around Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada. The album compiler was mining engineer Henry Curtis Morris, who presumably took many of the photographs and wrote the descriptions. Other images are by commercial photographer P. E. Larson of Goldfield. Most of the album images are of Nevada, including mining towns Ione, Hornsilver, Monarch, Belmont, Austin, Rawhide, and Fairview, with some images of the Reno Reduction Works mill. Other subjects are: mining operations; mine interiors with miners carrying picks and candles; prospectors panning for gold; miners' pack teams; prospectors' tents; covered wagons; and log cabins. Several views show Paiute Indians around Reese River, Nevada. There are a small number of images in California, primarily mining camps in Death Valley.

photCL 233

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Henry Curtis Morris photograph album of Nevada and California mining

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

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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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