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J. Gregg Layne Collection of Photographs

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Description: A set of 84 photographs chiefly depicting the City and County of Los Angeles, including Los Angeles streets and buildings, a shipyard in Los Angeles Harbor, and Pasadena, California, taken by an unidentified photographer from approximately 1920-1929; the collection also includes depictions of the 1925 earthquake in Santa Barbara, California; a fire in May, 1923 in Mexicali, Mexico; portraits of various people; and a few miscellaneous views.
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Production date: approximately 1920-1929.
Call number: photCL 374
Provenance: Gift of J. Gregg Layne, December 6, 1945.
Dimensions: prints chiefly 21 x 13 cm and 13 x 21 cm
Associated people: Layne, J. Gregg (1885-1952,)
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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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Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) photograph collection

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A collection of three photograph albums, approximately 200 loose photographs, and three panoramic photographs related to the Los Angeles County Medical Association. Subjects include portraits of LACMA members; medical personnel, buildings, equipment, and facilities. The panoramic photographs depict a group portrait of a member picnic in Sunland (1923); movie extras dressed as bathing beauties in Venice (1918); and a post-convention clinic at Hal Roach Studios, featuring the movie set and over 100 people in a group portrait (1920). The three albums are: USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, first post-graduate class, Summer 1900; California Hospital, Los Angeles, personnel (doctors and nurses), 1908. Includes original photograph of Leon Czolgosz with Bertillon measurements from the Detective Bureau, Police Department of Buffalo, New York, September 6, 1901; and Portraits of French Doctors of the second half of the 19th century.

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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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Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Los Angeles County Elementary Schools Photographs

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Photographs compiled by Thomas V. Masterson depicting various elementary schools in Los Angeles County, California, where he served as principal. Included are Sawtelle Grammar School (ca. 1908-1910), The Palms School (1911), Downey Grammar School (1913-1914), Russell School in South Central Los Angeles (1915), and the Ford Boulevard School in East Los Angeles (1923-1934). The images show school children posing for group and graduation portraits, and engaged in various indoor and outdoor activities.

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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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