Visual Materials

[Palmdale, California, train station]

Description: This collection contains 71 lantern slides of primarily unidentified scenes including slides depicting people, children, scenery, and farming. Many of these scenes appear to be in the Southern California area, though there are a few from other locales including Canada and England. Among the identified slides are Mission San Gabriel; Champlain Monument in Quebec, Canada; a 1798 letter to the Maryland Free Masons; the steamship "Parisian" in Liverpool, England; Palmdale, California train station; the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake; and Lucky Baldwin's Ranch in Arcadia, California. Photographers are not identified.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1890-approximately 1930.
Call number: photCL 518
Provenance: Provenance unknown, in library as of 2012.

[Palmdale, California, train station] [Variant of 46]

Visual Materials

This collection contains 71 lantern slides of primarily unidentified scenes including slides depicting people, children, scenery, and farming. Many of these scenes appear to be in the Southern California area, though there are a few from other locales including Canada and England. Among the identified slides are Mission San Gabriel; Champlain Monument in Quebec, Canada; a 1798 letter to the Maryland Free Masons; the steamship "Parisian" in Liverpool, England; Palmdale, California train station; the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake; and Lucky Baldwin's Ranch in Arcadia, California. Photographers are not identified.

photCL 518

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[Map of route from Palmdale to Los Angeles, California]

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photCL 518

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[Men outside railroad station]

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photCL 518

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[Ocean and rocks. California]

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photCL 518

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[Lucky Baldwin's Ranch. Santa Anita, California]

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photCL 518

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Lantern Slides of Southern California, Canada, and Other Miscellaneous Topics

Visual Materials

This collection contains 71 lantern slides of primarily unidentified scenes including slides depicting people, children, scenery, and farming. Many of these scenes appear to be in the Southern California area, though there are a few from other locales including Canada and England. Among the identified slides are Mission San Gabriel; the Champlain Monument in Quebec, Canada; a 1798 letter to the Maryland Freemasons; the steamship "Parisian" in Liverpool, England; the Palmdale, California, train station; the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake; and Lucky Baldwin's Ranch in Arcadia, California. Photographers are not identified.

photCL 518

[Palmdale, California, train station]

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