Visual Materials

Views of West and Southwest, including Los Angeles and Pasadena

Description: A description of these slides filed in Vol. 3, Manuscripts. Note: Items 6-8, 15-18, 24-27, 34-39, and 41-44 are missing.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1880s-approximately 1955
Call number: photCL 481
Creator: Thrall, William Henry (1874?-1963)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gifts of William H. Thrall, April 29, 1949; March 23, 1951; and September 17, 1952.; Purchased from Mrs. W. H. Thrall, May 1963.
Restrictions: The film negatives (boxes 9-15) have been placed in cold storage for preservation. Arrangements for viewing negatives must be made in advance with the Curator of Photographs.

Book of Hours, use of Châlons-sur-Marne : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-77v. [Book of Hours]: f. i r-v [added 16th c.]: Prayer to the Virgin; ff. 1-6v: Calendar in French; ff. 7-8v, 10-11: Pericopes of the Gospels (and on f. 11r-v, continuation of the responsorial prayer from f. i verso); ff. 13-14v: Obsecro te; ff. 40, 39, 41-43, 23, 12, 20-22, 27, 15, one leaf missing, 30, 25-26, 34, one leaf missing, 9, 16, two leaves missing, 19, one leaf missing, 35-36, one leaf missing, 37-38, one leaf missing; 24, two leaves missing, 29: Hours of the Virgin, apparently use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 44-54v: Penitential psalms and litany; f. 54r-v: prayer added, 16th c., in the same hand as on f. i r-v: [M]ediatrix ..., [A]uxiliatrix ..., [R]eparatrix ...; ff. 31-32, 17-18, 33, 28, 55-71v: Office of the Dead, use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 72-77v: Prayers in Latin and French to the Virgin with a woman as suppliant; f. 77r-v: completion of prayer from f. 54v: [I]lluminatrix ..., [A]lleluiatrix ...

mssHM 1265

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Broken glass negatives

Visual Materials

These negatives are cracked or are missing broken pieces. Corresponding prints: Box 1, Folder 3 (10, 10a); Box 3, Folder 10 (9); Box 4, Folder 19 (2), Folder 22 (18, 21a), Folder 24 (2); Box 5, Folder 27 (3), Folder 31 (3); and Box 6, Folder 32 (31, 38, 41)

photCL 275

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California Institute of Technology, Faculty Club, "Athenaeum" (1201 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, California)

Visual Materials

Date built: 1930 Architect: Kaufmann, Gordon B. Landscape Architect: Council & Yoch Description: Interior and exterior views of Mediterranean style building. Publication(s): Athenaeum, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena," Architectural Digest, Vol. 8, No. 4, p. 9; California Arts and Architecture, Vol. 41, p. 15, Mar. 1932, "Athenaeum," by W. B. Munroe.

photCL 415

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La Quinta Inn: Desert Development Co., Hotel Resort, Cottages, Pool, Cyrus Pierce residence & Walter Morgan residence (Palm Desert, California)

Visual Materials

Date built: 1927, 1937 Architect: Kaufmann, Gordon B. Description: Exterior and interior views of La Quinta resort, Cyrus Pierce house and Walter Morgan house. Publication(s): House for Cryus Pierce, La Quinta," Architectural Record, Vol. 68, p. 125, Aug. 1930; "House of Walter Morgan, La Quinta, Indio," Architectural Record, Vol. 75, p. 148, Feb. 1934; "La Quinta, California," California Southland, Vol. 9, p. 33, April 1927; "La Quinta Hotel and Cottages at Indio," Architectural Record, Vol. 74, p. 345, Nov. 1933; "La Quinta on the Desert," California Southland, Vol. 9, p. 29, Dec. 1937 & Vol. 10, p. 32, Feb. 1928; "La Quinta - the Lure of the Desert," California Arts and Architecture, Vol. 37, p. 44, Jan. 1930; "La Quinta.' Wustemhotel, Indio." Der Baumeister 34, p. 141, Apr. 1936. Missing copy prints for nos. 329, 380.

photCL 415

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Miscellaneous Los Angeles County Views: Addenda

Visual Materials

This collection contains photographs, negatives, and some ephemera chiefly collected by California conservationist and editor William H. Thrall (1873-1963) for use in Trails magazine. Thrall served as managing editor of the publication from 1934 to 1939, which was produced to encourage the use of mountain trails and outdoor recreation in Los Angeles County. The collection includes approximately 1200 prints (Boxes 1-4); 68 glass negatives (Boxes 7-8); approximately 2300 film negatives; 150 slides; and miscellaneous documents and ephemera, and a folding pocket camera. The photographs primarily date from the 1930s, but also include copy prints (and some originals) of late 19th and early 20th photographs. The images depict mountain and forested landscapes and outdoor recreational activities including hiking, skiing, and camping, chiefly in the San Gabriel Mountains and surrounding mountains of Southern California. Many of the photographs include individuals involved in recreational activities as well images of historical mountain pioneers. The photographs chiefly consist of 4.5 x 2.75 inch snapshots and 8 x 10 and 6 x 10 inch prints, by photographers including Dan P. Alexander, Carl H. Bauer, Harlow Dormer, C. C. Vernon, and Thrall. There is also a group of glass plate negatives and film negatives, including a group of unprinted film negatives that appear to be personal photographs with views of nature, groups of people, family scenes, buildings, boating, and trips, in the 1930s-1950s (Box 15). The film negatives have handwritten numbers presumably assigned by Thrall. Many of the prints appear in Trails magazine, which was published quarterly by the Mountain League of Southern California from Winter 1934 to Spring 1939 (Volume 6, No. 1). In Autumn 1941, the Southern California Outdoor Federation began publishing a new edition of Trails Magazine (without Thrall as editor), but only two issues were published (Volume 2, Nos. 1-2).

photCL 481

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Film negatives

Manuscripts

There are 94 copy film negatives, of various sizes, for 57 images: 35mm copy film negatives for fifty-two items: 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, and 94 10 x 13.5cm (3.75 x 4.75 inch) or 7.5 x 10 cm (3 x 4 inch) film negatives for thirty-five items: 23, 27, 29, 30, 32, 34, 35, 38, 39, 41, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 72, 77, 82, 83, 84, 85, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, and 94 12.5 x 18 cm (5 x 7 inch) film negatives for two items: 86 and 87 20 x 25.5 cm (8 x 10 inch) film negatives for five items: 40, 54, 70, 71, and 86

mssDolley; photCL 123

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