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Contact prints (photographs)

Description: Contact prints made by Hall of photographs he took approximately 1951 to 1961. Each print has the negative number written on it by Hall. Subject matter varies; images of Bunker Hill are interspersed with photographs of Hall's friends and family, or places he visited. There are only occasional identifications.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1951-1961
Call number: Series 2
Creator: Hall, Theodore(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Haines, 1993.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; RESTRICTED: Boxes 2-34: Negatives housed in cold storage; extended retrieval and delivery time required.

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Photographic prints made from negatives 5018-5997 by Theodore Hall. Negative 5585 has a wall calendar showing the year as 1952. Los Angeles photographs include Bunker Hill, City Hall, Grand Central Market, Plaza Church, Victorian houses, camera club outings. Other locations: San Francisco Bay Area (where Hall's relatives lived); Santa Anita Park racetrack in Arcadia, California; Kellogg Park, West Pomona. Photographs of families, children playing, and other topics are interspersed throughout.

Binder 1

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Photographic prints made from negatives 8592-10006 by Theodore Hall. Negative 8906 dated 1955; negative 9061 dated 1956. Subjects include: Bunker Hill, Los Angeles Fire Department station no. 16, Angels Flight, the Farmers Market in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Also scenes of a trip to Death Valley and a typed summary of the trip by Hall. Many images of Victorian houses and streets on Bunker Hill, and the street named "Bunker Hill."

Binder 4

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Photographic prints made from negatives 7216-8591 by Theodore Hall. Negative 7291 is dated June 7, 1954. Subjects include: Bunker Hill, cars and freeways, Angels Flight, Union Station, Grand Central Market, Santa Anita Park racetrack. Also scenes of clearing land, cement work, and construction on Bunker Hill.

Binder 3

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Photographic prints made from negatives 10007-12010 by Theodore Hall. An image of the marquee of the Hollywood Chinese Theater dates the shot to 1957. Also, negative 11602 is dated April 5, 1958. Subjects include: Bunker Hill, various downtown hotels and apartment buildings, Pico House, Plaza Church, Olvera Street, Bradbury Building (beginning at negative 11770), Hollywood, and possibly Hollywood Park racetrack. Also scenes of construction on Bunker Hill, pouring cement sidewalks.

Binder 5

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Photographic prints made from negatives 13064-14284 by Theodore Hall. Negative 13906 has a calendar for April 1961. Subjects include: Bunker Hill, Clifton's Cafeteria, bird's-eye-views of downtown and Union Station, Olvera Street, Central Library, Angels Flight Cafe, Grand Central Super Market, F.P. Fay building, American Barber College, Hotel Trenton, Hotel Albert, and the Touraine apartment building. Scenes of building demolition, and empty lots on Bunker Hill. Images of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson campaign headquarters at Biltmore Hotel, and a bungalow court downtown with address 127-131 S. Hope Street (no. 14085).

Binder 7

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Photographic prints made from negatives 5998-7215 by Theodore Hall. Negatives 6172 and 6406 are both dated 1953. Subjects include: Bunker Hill, Biltmore Hotel, Grand Central Market, Angels Flight, Union Station, an ice skating rink, and a drugstore. Also includes parties, families, children, churches, cars, and offices.

Binder 2

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