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Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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The album is a published collection of souvenir views of Los Angeles and vicinity. Included are views of Figueroa Street; Hollenbeck Home; Adams Street; West Lake Park; Palm Drive; Plaza Church; Broadway and the "old" City Hall; the "old" Court house; Chester Place; a panorama of central Los Angeles; San Gabriel Mission; Marengo Avenue in Pasadena; the Raymond Hotel; the Mount Lowe cable incline railway; the home of Ramona (Rancho Camulos in Ventura County); Avalon harbor and Santa Catalina Island; the Potter Hotel in Santa Barbara; the Santa Barbara Mission; Redlands; the Hotel Coronado in San Diego; and Magnolia Avenue in Riverside.
photCL 400 volume 25
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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.
photCL 400 volume 8
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The album is composed of 19 black-and-white photographs of historic sites in Los Angeles, California, in 1945 including La Golondrina Restaurant (formerly the Pelanconi Winery); the Avila Adobe; Olvera Street; the Plaza; the Lugo Adobe; Pico House; the Plaza Church (Nuestra Senora La Reyna de Los Angeles); the Abbot Block and the Merced Theater; the Amestoy Block; the Baker Block; the United States Post Office Terminal Annex; views from Fort Hill; the Plaza de la Justicia and the Hall of Records; Union Station; the tomb of Los Angeles pioneer Robert Carlisle; and the remains of the Protestant cemetery.
photCL 400 volume 18
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The album is a published collection of souvenir views of Los Angeles, California, and vicinity. Included are views of the Plaza Church; central Los Angeles; Los Angeles area parks (East Lake Park, West Lake Park, Hollenbeck Park, Elysian Park); the "new" Los Angeles County courthouse; the San Gabriel and San Fernando Missions; Baldwin's Ranch; Riverside; the Sawtelle Soldier's Home; scenes of recreational activities in Santa Monica; Redlands; Redondo Beach; the Mount Lowe cable incline railway; and Pasadena.
photCL 400 volume 24
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This is a miscellaneous collection of film and copy negatives from the Historical Society of Southern California, including images of Los Angeles from the early 1900s to the 1930s, Mt. Lowe Railway, Rancho Camulos, Arroyo Seco Canyon, and founders of the HSSC, including Henry D. Barrows, J.J. Warner, and Antonio F. Coronel. Copy negatives show images used in various issues of the Southern California Quarterly, including images of Roy Knabenshue, Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital, Mojave Indians, and Homer Lea. Other negatives show images of the Midwest, Canadian Rockies, and female entertainers, which came with the California-related negatives but have no obvious relation to them.
photCL 400 volume 35