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Sisson family album

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Description: Disbound album of amateur snapshot photographs documenting the activities of the Sisson family beginning with views of Illinois, Ohio, and New Hampshire (Mt. Washington) in 1898-1899 and continuing on to their life in Southern California. Includes views of a vacation camping trip by Edward A. Sisson, his father, George H. Sisson, and other men to Lower California (Baja, Mexico) in 1901 around Ensenada, Sausalito, El Rosario and Santa Catarina. The second half of the album documents the life of the Sisson family in the Garvanza section of northeast Los Angeles (near Pasadena and South Pasadena) beginning in 1902. Many of the Los Angeles photographs focus on Dorothy Sisson and Margaret Sisson as young children, with some views in Pasadena, the Arroyo Seco, the Sisson's house (the "Garvanza Villa"), and a trip to San Francisco. All photographs are captioned and many are dated. Contains photographs by Stella Hart, Mrs. Joseph L. Ball, Mrs. Kyellberg and Mr. Wheeler.
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Production date: 1898-1903.
Call number: photCL 437

Brockway family album

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Bound photograph album with images depicting the family of Adna F. Brockway and Annie Brockway, their children, Leon Brockway and Elsie Brockway Snyder, and grandchildren, Dorothy and Marjorie. The album documents the family from the late 1880s to the early 1940s and includes scenes, residences, baby pictures, and family portraits, with detailed handwritten captions throughout. The album begins in 1886 with scenes and residences in Orleans, Vermont, and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and proceeds to South Pasadena, California, where the family moved in 1887. Scenes in South Pasadena and surrounding areas include the Brockway residence at 306 N. Raymond Ave., including interior views, the Marengo Hotel in 1888 with "Vermonters celebrating Thanksgiving" gathered on the porch, a schoolhouse, the Arroyo Seco (including Scoville Dam), the San Gabriel Mountain camps, a trip to British Columbia, and scenes of life in Southern California at the beaches, the California Missions, floats from the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, and a dilapidated cabin identified as "A Mexican home." Many of the snapshots document family activities and outings including camping, riding bicycles, and visiting friends and neighbors. There are many excellent tintype and cartes-de-visite portraits of members of the Brockway and Garland families, dating from 1866, with descriptions of the sitter and date. Among the photographs there is a forty-year reunion photograph of women from the Pasadena High School class of 1897, a photograph by A.C. Vroman showing a group of amateur photographers crossing a stream in the Arroyo, ca. 1897, and Dorothy and Marjorie shown at Pomona College in the 1920s.

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Travel album including Yosemite, New England, and Yellowstone

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Album of amateur snapshots taken during trips chiefly in California, New England, and Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, from 1903 to 1905, with handwritten captions identifying the locaions depicted. The album begins with photographs documenting a trip to California beginning in the Yosemite Valley in May 1903 before progressing to Mariposa Grove, the Sacramento River, Shasta Springs, Sisson (Mount Shasta), San Francisco, the University of California, Berkeley, campus, including houses identified as "my homes," Santa Cruz, Monterey, the Hotel Del Monte, and the Santa Barbara Mission. There are images of New England and Upstate New York from 1903 to 1905 including Lake Pleasant, Massachusetts, Deerfield Valley, Connecticut, Charlestown, New Hampshire, South Framingham, Massachusetts, winter in Boston Harbor (1903-04), Lake Winnipesaukee, Seal Harbor and Mt. Desert Maine, and the New York State Capitol in Albany. There are also photographs from a trip in Summer 1905 to Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, with stops along the way in St. Paul, Minnesota, and at Minnehaha Falls, Minneapolis. Of note are a few photographs of President Theodore Roosevelt's arrival in Yosemite, including one captioned "President Roosevelt and John Muir." The photographs primarily depict the natural scenery including waterfalls, lakes, trees, and mountains, as well as hotels, tourist destinations, and landmarks. There are also some images of ice skating, sledding, and sleigh rides during the winter of 1904-05 in New England. The compiler of the album is unidentified though there is one photograph of a young couple on horseback at Yosemite labeled "You and I."

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Subseries A. The Wright Family: Home and Travels

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Photographs depict the Wright family home on North Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena; winter and summer views of Mount Wilson, including images of members of the Wright family and of Charles Dewey, Mrs. William R. Staats, James H. Holmes, W. L. Wotkynes, members of the Bart Club, and others; trips to Avalon Bay and the city of Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, with images of fish drying on racks, children dressing up as Indians, and people on boats, including the Seabird and other yachts; a pack trip on Santa Catalina Island in 1900; birds and bird collecting, including during the Wright family's trip to the Channel Islands in 1909; the Tournament of Roses in 1906; a tour of Mexico in 1907 including Puebla, Oaxaca, Ocatlan, and Mitla, with images of markets and street scenes; journeys on the Seabird to San Clemente Island in 1908 and to the Coronados Islands in Mexico in 1908 and 1910, with images of birds, boats, and seascapes; the Catalina Island race in 1910; and a pack trip to the High Sierras. Photographs also include depictions of Haley's Comet, taken with a telephoto lens; Andrew Carnegie and Dr. George Ellery Hale on Mount Wilson in 1910; and a nighttime view from Mount Wilson of Pasadena, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Palos Verdes, San Pedro, and Santa Catalina Island.

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Charles W. Gorton family travel album

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A personal photograph album belonging to Charles W. Gorton depicting travels in Canada and Southern California. Views in Canada show family recreational outings, large houses and hotels in Georgian Bay and the Muskoka District of Ontario and two Montréal city scenes, including an outdoor market. Los Angeles views include an apartment building in Westlake Park, Hollenbeck Park, and the Los Angeles Country Club. In Pasadena, views show the Raymond Hotel, Hotel Maryland, and the Tournament of Roses parade. Other locations are Smiley Heights and Hotel Glenwood in Riverside, and the Santa Barbara Country Club and Santa Barbara Flower Festival in Santa Barbara. A fleet of U.S. Navy ships are seen at sea, including the USS Kansas and USS Connecticut. Photographs are accompanied by handwritten captions identifying locations and a few people. Effie, Charles' wife, is identified in one photograph.

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[Photograph album of the Percy Florence Shelley family and the Boscombe estate]

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Album containing pasted photographic prints with (often unidentified) portrait views of various men, women, and children, some in groups, including members of the Shelley and Grove families and exterior views of various British estates, dating from approximately the mid 1850s to the 1870s. Includes portrait views with some handwritten captions identifying Percy Florence Shelley, his wife Jane Gibson Shelley, and their adopted daughter Bessie Florence Gibson (later Scarlett); Rev. Charles H. Grove and his daughters; Lord and Lady Ducie; Lady Emily Dundas; Mrs. Reid and her daughters of The Node, Codicote; and the Crawfords. With exterior views of British manors and estates including Boscombe Manor, the Shelley estate near Bournemouth, England, showing croquet parties on the lawn; Ferne House, the residence of Charles Grove in Donhead St. Andrew, England; and the Llys Dulas estate in Anglesey, Wales. The album also contains some original artwork including small paintings and 6 botanical drawings.

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Thomas Nast family photograph album

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Studio portraits of German-American cartoonist Thomas Nast, his wife Sarah Edwards Nast, and their five children, Julia, Thomas Jr., Edith, Mabel, and Cyril. There are 3 portraits of Nast, including a 3/4-length standing portrait in a fur-trimmed coat, and 6 portraits of Sarah at various ages. The children are pictured from childhood to adulthood, except the youngest, Cyril, who is only seen as a boy. The portraits were primarily made by photographers E. G. Lacey and Mrs. E. G. Lacey in Morristown, New Jersey, and Napoleon Sarony in New York City. There are a few unidentified photographs of children, including two tintypes of a baby, and a copy photograph of a man posed with a beer tankard. A few photographs have dates handwritten on the backs.

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