Flag Studio Collection of Pasadena and Southern California Photographs

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  Photographs of Pasadena, California

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  Consists of nine photographs. photPF 370 contains two cuttings from the Pasadena Star News depicting the intersection of Marengo and Colorado streets, in 1885(?) and 1925(?). These images are also accompanied by annotations and a short handwritten account of land pricing at this intersection in the 1880s. Other subjects include the former Villa Street Reservoir, various floats from the 1900(?) Rose Parade, a chariot race in Tournament Park, and a photo fo an unidentified man by the falls in Eaton Canyon.

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  Kenny Collection of Photographs of South Pasadena

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  This collection contains 799 photographs of people and places in South Pasadena, California, taken by photographer Herbert J. Kenny (1863-1956) from approximately 1908-1937. The collection chiefly comprises studio portraits of individuals and images of people posing in outdoor settings. Portraits depict women; men; children and young adults; and groups, including couples, families, Boy Scouts, students, sports teams, lodge members, and a church congregation. Most people are unidentified, though some captions identify professions including minister or dancer, and two photographs identify a sitter by name (Peggy Ryan, Items 405 and 406). Many of the photographs feature early twentieth century fashion, including formal wear, various types of uniforms, graduation gowns, and other forms of dress. The collection also includes photographs depicting residences, commercial and other buildings, and landscaping and agriculture in and around South Pasadena, chiefly in the early 1920s. A few photographs show house interiors, and several depict automobiles and roads. Notably, several photographs show retail establishments holding clearance or going-out-of-business sales (Items 62 and 79-82). There are also a few photographs showing imagery from outside of South Pasadena and other miscellaneous items, including beach scenes and single images of a desert home, a harbor, a driving glove, a set of business school materials, and a trophy and first prize ribbon from 1922. The photographs are later prints chiefly from glass-plate negatives and, to a lesser extent, from copy film negatives; these prints were made by the Huntington photo lab between 1985 and 1989.

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  Notes on photographs in collection: Other Southern California areas

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  This is a collection primarily of negatives and photographic prints depicting the growth of Santa Monica and Los Angeles, California, from 1860s to 1980s. Many views are cityscapes or street views, showing buildings, storefronts, homes and roads, and documenting the use of railroads, trolleys, streetcars, and automobiles. There are many card photographs by early professional photographers, and also a number of snapshots made by amateurs, some in personal photo albums. The collection's scope also includes early views of many other communities in Southern California (and a few in other states); the beginnings of aviation in Santa Monica, including the first Douglas Aircraft Company buildings; a photo album of residents in Topanga Canyon, ca. 1913; automobile racing in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, 1920s; maritime views; a photo album of U.S. troops in France during World War I; a 1949 real estate development in Apple Valley, California, and others. Besides photographs, a portion of the collection consists of scarce publications and historical ephemera, primarily related to Santa Monica and Los Angeles, including brochures, advertising cards, menus, event programs and other materials. Highlights of the Santa Monica images are aerial views of the buildings along the coast and pier (1920s); several views of the Arcadia Hotel (1880s); the Long Wharf and adjoining railroad and train depot; the first bath houses on the beach; the beach club culture of the 1920s and 1930s; the amusement piers of Santa Monica, Ocean Park and Venice; and the beginnings of the Douglas Aircraft Company. There is a large set of promotional photographs made late 1920s-1930s by Powell Press Service depicting people enjoying Santa Monica's beaches, clubs and outdoor recreation. An important subset within the collection is 407 negatives made ca. 1890 - 1908 by Los Angeles historian and amateur photographer George W. Hazard (1842-1914). Hazard travelled around Los Angeles and vicinity photographing the adobes, houses, streets and storefronts that told the early history of the city. Many of Hazard's negatives have handwritten identifications, naming streets, former homeowners, ranchos, and other historical details. There are a large number of cabinet cards and other card-mounted prints and stereographs. There are 1,264 stereograph prints, highlighted by the works of photographic pioneers William M. Godfrey, Francis Parker, Hayward & Muzzall, and Carleton Watkins. Other formats represented are: glass and film negatives; panoramic prints; 7 photograph albums, photographic postcards, 20th-century color prints and transparencies; and a small number of tintypes, cyanotypes and a set of chromolithographs.

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  J. Gregg Layne Collection of Photographs

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  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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  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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  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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