Photograph collection of South Pasadena, Berkeley, San Francisco, and other California

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  Photographs of the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and fire

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  Photographs by an unknown photographer documenting the aftermath of the April 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, California. Images depict the devastated buildings and landscape as well as tent cities and bird's eye views over the city.

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  Flag Studio Collection of Pasadena and Southern California Photographs

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  A set of approximately 1300 photographs of people chiefly depicting Pasadena and environs and other areas of Southern California, collected and presumably taken by Flag Studios of Pasadena, California, from approximately 1909-1967; the collection comprises approximately 1100 negatives, chiefly glass plate negatives, and approximately 200 prints. The photographs of Pasadena and environs include views of streets, buildings, parades and athletic events, parks, residences, and businesses. Other depictions of Pasadena include a few photographs showing Pasadena High School graduation ceremonies in 1929 and 1930 and its athletic teams, with some images including Lester Groetzinger of Flag Studios. Photographs of other areas in California include views of residences in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills; Catalina Island; Long Beach; the shoreline in Santa Monica; Glendale, including various images of people; one image of a horse-drawn United States mail wagon at the post office in La Cañada (1910); and other views. Notably, there are several photographs depicting oil well fires, including images from Santa Fe Springs in 1922, and earthquakes, including images from an earthquake in Inglewood in 1920 and strips of 35mm film, possibly depicting scenes from before and after an earthquake in 1933. One set of negatives depicting buildings, businesses, and people was numbered in sequence (though several items in the sequence are missing), and one set was found in an envelope labeled "from Lankershim album." The collection also includes a few images of Indians at a railroad station in Arizona and several views of Mexicali, Mexico. Photographs of people include images from a party, possibly of Shriners, and portraits of musicians, police, and sailors. Though most of these images are of unidentified people, one set of photographs identifies its subjects and includes studio and outdoor portraits, some featuring people in formal dress; two photographs of a Japanese American man; and two images containing holiday greetings. The collection also includes photographs depicting scenes from unidentified locations, including people, landscapes, mountains, buildings, deserts, dwellings, storefronts, vehicles, U.S. Navy and Army, camping, bicycle races, musicians, period furniture, and various other views.

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  Photographs of San Francisco

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  A collection of 311 copy photographs and photographs of illustrations of San Francisco showing the city from 1846 up until the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906, the majority dating to between 1856 and 1890. Images show city streets, especially Market Street; schools, including the Denman School and Lincoln School; neighborhoods, including Nob Hill, Russian Hill, and Telegraph Hill; churches; the Congregation Emanu-El synagogue; a Masonic temple; an Odd Fellows hall; Mission Dolores; hotels, including the old and new Cliff Houses; banks; waterfront views including ferry boats and steamboats; cable cars from various years; tourist attractions, especially Woodward's Gardens and Warner's Cobweb Palace; July 4th celebrations; photographs of snow from 1882; and views of the destruction caused by the 1868 Hayward Earthquake.

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  Photographs of San Francisco and Azusa

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  Consists of twelve photographs, including one cyanotype print. photPF 340-344 are photographs of works by Maurice Sterne and Diego Rivera in the Albert M. Bender Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Art. photPF 345-345 depict the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. photPF 347 consists of three photographs depicting the effect of the 1868 San Francisco Earthquake by Eadweard Muybridge. photPF 348 is a cabinet card depicting California Street from Sansome Street in San Francisco, approximately 1880s by Taber. photPF 349 is a cyanotype of the H. Canoll & Co. dry good store, possibly in Asuza.

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  Early views of San Francisco and photographs of 1906 earthquake aftermath

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  Photographs of buildings in ruins, survivor's tents, streets, and other details of the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Some small panoramas by Charles Z. Bailey. Also a few photographs of drawings of the city in the 19th century, and images of ships and shipwrecks in the bay.

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  Stiles Collection of Photographs of South Pasadena and Los Angeles County

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  This collection contains 209 photographs of families, residences, commercial and municipal buildings, and the natural environment of South Pasadena, the city and county of Los Angeles, and other locations chiefly in California, taken approximately 1887-1913, mostly by photographer T. D. Keith ([1848]-1896); one undated photograph is by Los Angeles photographer Elkanah P. Tresslar, and other images taken after Keith's death are by an unidentified photographer. Photographs chiefly show South Pasadena residents and residences, including Keith's home and family and other families; many of the photographs provide a glimpse of clothing and dress styles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Photographs also depict South Pasadena buildings and scenes, including the first and second Raymond Hotel and South Pasadena High School; panoramic views of South Pasadena; railroads; various views of the San Gabriel Valley and Los Angeles; Santa Catalina Island; and the Tournament of Roses Parade in 1901 in Pasadena. The collection also includes a few photographs showing scenes from San Diego County and the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and individual images of the San Juan Capistrano Mission and of a street scene in Tijuana, Mexico. A few images, such as Item 37, are originals with the stamp "Keith" on versos. The photographs are chiefly later prints from glass-plate negatives and, to a lesser extent, from copy film negatives; these prints were made by the Huntington photo lab in the 1980s. Also included are 20 prints without corresponding negatives, one cabinet card photograph, and a chiefly blank notebook containing three pages of handwritten titles for some of the photographs. The collection contains many duplicates.

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