J. Gregg Layne Collection of Photographs

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  Layne, J. Gregg

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  The collection consists of 809 portrait photographs in a variety of formats. It is a reference collection of individual and group portraits and contains portraits of both prominent and lesser-known Los Angelenos and Southern Californians from both the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection contains images created by a number of well-known California photographers.

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

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  A collection of photographs of scenes in California cities in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, primarily South Pasadena and the Los Angeles area, Catalina Island, Berkeley, and many views of San Francisco in the aftermath of the earthquake and fire of 1906. Other views include workers building the Santa Fe railroad in Pasadena; people hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains; and the Fiesta de Los Angeles parade, 1901, with President William McKinley in a car. Several photographs show the University of California, Berkeley campus, including the 1903 commencement, with speaker Theodore Roosevelt; dormitories; and students in various activities. Photographs of San Francisco include a few taken before the earthquake and many showing the aftermath, with piles of rubble, people sifting through the wreckage, tent camps, and bread lines. There are also personal photographs showing unidentified people in domestic settings, as well as many houses, gardens, and family cats and birds. There are five views of farming in Southern California, showing a steam tractor in action.

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  Collection of Panoramic Photographs

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  The Huntington Library's Collection of Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1995, contains 117 panoramas that depict a wide variety of subjects and provide 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 landscapes include views of Los Angeles and vicinity (including central Los Angeles, Hollywood, East Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Mount Lowe); views of San Francisco (including balloon views of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire created by the George R. Lawrence Company); miscellaneous landscapes (including Yosemite Falls; Tehachapi Loop; Los Gatos, California; Camp Bowie, Texas; Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains; Furnace Creek in Death Valley; Hoover Dam; Thermopolis, Wyoming; and unidentified views); views of industry (including the Newport News shipyard and the Venice-Del Rey oil fields); desert and mining towns (including Virginia City, Nevada; Bisbee, Arizona; and Ouray, Colorado); the Panama Canal; and Norris Dam (Tennessee). The group portraits include clubs; employees; school children; professional organizations; military personnel; pageant and play participants (including two portraits of casts of the Mission Play); birthday parties; and miscellaneous groups. The miscellaneous views include views of the Ascot Park Racetrack in Gardena, California; a revival held by Aimee Semple McPherson in Balboa Park (San Diego); opening ceremonies of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics; and the raising of the U.S.S. Battleship Maine in Havana Harbor. 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; B. Isensee; 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. Titles in brackets are supplied; otherwise all titles come from the photographs themselves.

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  Carl S. Dentzel Photograph Collection of the American West

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  This collection contains 84 photographs of the American West that were collected by Carl S. Dentzel (1913-1980), director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California. The photographs date from the 1870s to the 1890s and include a disbound album of photographs of Alaska taken by A. L. Broadbent. The Alaska album (items 30-84) has a title page inscribed "Mr(?) Baldwin, Dutch Harbor, Unalaska / Compliments of A. L. Broadbent." These photographs all have manuscript captions in ink, presumably written by Broadbent. Scenes include: Alaskan natives, homes, graves; missionaries and schools; walrus hunting; whaling ships; totem poles; portraits of officers in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service; Greek and Russian Orthodox churches; the first grand jury in Nome, Alaska; James Gilchrist Swan; and a portrait of photographer A. L. Broadbent. The other photographs in the collection are a series of Lake Tahoe card photographs; a few views of the logging industry; Kingston, New Mexico; homesteaders and miners in Oklahoma; and some portraits. Of note is a portrait of "D. S. Mitchell, Photographer" and his camera and tent in Oklahoma. Photographers who contributed to this collection include William C. Billington, Alfred Lee Broadbent, F. Davey, Edward De Groff, Charles D. Kirkland, David Sedgley Mitchell, C. H. Shaffner, Julius Ulke, and Raper James Waters.

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  Southern California Regional Planning Collection, (bulk 1920-1989)

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  The Southern California Regional Planning Collection was donated by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Department, George Marr, Edward Holden, Glen Blossom, Simon Eisner, and Glenda Hamilton to the Huntington Library in 1997. The Southern California Regional Planning Collection is organized into two series: 1) Published Planning Reports Series (organized by individual item numbers) 2) Internal Documents Series (organized by box and folder numbers).The Published Planning Reports Series contains 1,913 individual items that were generated by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission, Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning, and other planning agencies and organizations in Southern California. Type of reports include annual reports, area study, comprehensive planning reports, census, conference papers, general plans, guides to zoning and subdivision, planning proposals, traffic and environmental surveys, zoning ordinance, etc. The date range of this series is 1909 to 2003.The Internal Documents Series contains approximately 913 items in 14 Hollinger boxes. Similar to the Published Planning Reports Series, the majority of the documents were generated by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission and Department of Regional Planning, followed by the Los Angeles Department of City Planning. Type of documents include census reports, conference papers, maps, memorandums, minutes, photos, plans, reports, speeches, summaries, etc. The date range is 1924 to 2000.

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