Visual Materials

Views of California

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Description: Set of twenty-six miscellaneous commercial views of sights chiefly in Southern California, circa 1890s. Includes a few images each of a variety of locales including the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, parks including Hollenbeck Park in Los Angeles, railroad tracks, the cabin of Gus Knight Jr. in Bear Valley in the San Bernardino Mountains, with Knight and others sitting on the porch. Most of the photographs have identifying captions in pencil on the versos. The photographer is unidentified.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1890s.
Call number: photCL 527
Provenance: Gift of Opal Jackson, November 22, 1972.
Dimensions: images 20 x 15 cm (5 x 7 in)

Side view of Bernal Lake cabin at Vermejo Ranch

Manuscripts

Black and white photograph of the exterior of a structure labeled "#2 Bernal Lake cabin" in a wooded area of Vermejo Ranch. Accompanying map drawn on brown paper indicates the structure had 3 bedrooms, a living room with fireplace, a kitchen, and a covered front porch. Notes indicate "condition of everything is good. Cabin built in 1928 by club."

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Exterior view of Leandro cabin at Vermejo Ranch

Manuscripts

Black and white photograph of the exterior of a structure labeled "#3 Leandro cabin" in a wooded area of Vermejo Ranch. Accompanying map drawn on brown paper indicates the structure had 3 bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, and a covered front porch. Notes indicate "condition good, built 1928 by club."

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Rear exterior view of Leandro cabin at Vermejo Ranch

Manuscripts

Black and white photograph of the exterior of a structure labeled "#3b Leandro cabin" in a wooded area of Vermejo Ranch. Accompanying map drawn on brown paper indicates the structure had 3 bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, and a covered front porch. Notes indicate "condition good, built 1928 by club."

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Front view of Adams Lake cabin at Vermejo Ranch

Manuscripts

Black and white photograph of the front of a cabin labeled "#1 Adams Lake." Wood walkway and railing leading to front door clearly in disrepair. Accompanying map drawn on brown paper indicates the structure had 3 bedrooms, a living room with fireplace, a kitchen, and a covered front porch. Notes indicate "overall condition - interior good, exterior needs repair."

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Big Creek, Miscellaneous

Visual Materials

Big Creek, Miscellaneous - Resident engineer's (Dave Redinger) cabin at Cascada. [Looks like Edith sitting on the porch rail]

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California. Landscape views

Visual Materials

This collection contains 1289 photographs, chiefly gelatin silver prints, reflecting the professional life and travels of American impressionist painter Alson Skinner Clark, some taken by Alson Clark and some by commercial and unidentified photographers, from approximately 1889-1939. The collection chiefly comprises portraits of Alson and his wife Atta Medora Clark; photographs depicting their studio home in the Arroyo Seco area of Los Angeles County, California; views of Clark's work, including murals at the Pasadena Playhouse, the Polytechnic Elementary School, and the First Trust and Savings Bank in Pasadena; and images of Alson Clark's travels, both with and without Medora Clark, to Thousand Islands, New York; throughout the Southwestern United States; Mexico; and, to a lesser extent, in Europe and Canada. The collection also includes photograph albums depicting the aftermath of World War I in Europe and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 in San Diego, and photographs depicting various locations in India, China, and Korea in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This collection is directly related to the Alson Skinner Clark papers, 1870-1971, bulk 1890-1940, held by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

photCL 361

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