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Caroline Adelaide Lankershim photograph album

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Description: An album containing 38 cabinet card studio portraits showing the family and friends of Caroline Adelaide Lankershim, the wife of Los Angeles land developer James Boon Lankershim. 26 of the photographs are of women of varying ages, including one of a young woman, presumably a Mills Seminary classmate, with the handwritten inscription on the verso: "Belle of Mills Sem. Sept. 19 1878, To Carrie from Jane." A photo by K. Takamura of Yokohama is hand-tinted. The photographs are from various studios in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City, especially Taber (San Francisco, California) and Bradley & Rulofson (San Francisco), and from Falk (New York City, New York), T.E. Stanton (Los Angeles, California), F.G. Schumacher (Los Angeles, California), and Dames & Butler (San Francisco, California).
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Production date: approximately 1870-approximately 1900.
Call number: photCL 53

Caroline Jones Lankershim household account book

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Account book for houses in San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles, California.

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Photograph album of Western United States and New York State

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An album with 66 photographs of various locations in New York State and the Western United States, including California, Washington, Texas, and Arizona. Images of New York include the New York City harbor, Battery Park, the Flatiron Building, Thousand Islands, the town of Clayton, and the city of Ogdensburg. Views of the Western states include street scenes in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California; the Cascade Range of mountains; an "Indian Fair" in the city of Toppenish and other places in the Yakama (also spelled Yakima) Indian Reservation in Washington; the city of San Antonio in Texas; and the Mojave Desert in Arizona. There are also single views of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Northern Pacific Railway, and New Orleans.

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Lankershim and Van Nuys Ranchos

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Illustrated promotional postcard with a birds eye view of a large portion of Los Angeles County from the Pacific Ocean to the San Fernando Valley, and showing the townsites of the Lankershim Rancho and Van Nuys Rancho, with the route of the Southern Pacific Railway running through them to the city of Los Angeles.

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Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company

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Printed in several colors and with offsets, shows the entire basin from Newhall on the north to Newport on the south, prominently showing the Lankershim Ranch in red. Verso contains extensive sales information, and notes sales " Since the first day of February, 1888.." MS note: 442744. Relief: hachures. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Sales information regarding the Lankershim Ranch property..

442744

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Isaac L. Requa Family photograph album

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An album with 44 card mounted studio portraits of California railroad and banking executive, Isaac L. Requa and his family and associates. There are several photographs of both Isaac and his wife, Sarah, a few photographs of their children, Mark L. Requa and Amy Requa Long; photographs of A. N. Towne, general manager of the Southern Pacific Railroad; two photographs of Oscar Fitzalan Long, a United States military officer and Amy Requa's husband; Mrs. William Shaw; Laura Requa de Russey and husband; Granville Abbott; Will Cullen; Will S. Bliss; Will Herrick; Annie Herrick; Eva Towne Shaw and Nelson Towne Shaw; Alice Herrick Stanford; Harry East Miller; Clinton E. Worden; "Bud Bliss"; and Harvey Goodman. Most of the photographs are from San Francisco studios, but a few have New York imprints and there is one each from Virginia City, Nevada, and Berlin, Germany. Among the identified photographers are: Hurd of Virginia City; Howland & Lonergan's Imperial Studio (San Francisco); I. W. Taber (San Francisco); Dames & Hayes (San Francisco); Eddowes Brothers (New York); Morse (San Francisco); and Bradley & Rulofson.

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Photograph Album

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This album contains typical commercial photographs of the towns and scenery of California, Oregon and Washington dating from the 1890s. Of note are early views of San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Francisco, Tacoma, and Seattle. There are also views of California missions and coastal landscapes. The Oregon photographs are of scenery only. Photographs of California include San Diego; Casa de Estudillo in Old Town San Diego; Mission San Luis Rey, San Juan Capistrano, and Santa Barbara; Santa Barbara; San Luis Obispo; Confederate general James Longstreet's Los Angeles home; the Bellevue Terrace Hotel; various Los Angeles homes; Pasadena; Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin's Santa Anita ranch; San Francisco city scenes; and wilderness en route to Oregon. Oregon photographs show images of the Columbia River; Mt. Hood; Latourell Falls; Multnomah Falls; and nature scenes. Photographs of Washington state include Tacoma; Green River; Native Americans from an unidentified tribe; Seattle; and Angeline, the daughter of Chief Seattle of the Suquamish tribe. Twenty-six of the pictures in this album were photographed by Isaiah West Taber and twenty-two were photographed by W.H.J. and Company. It may be that William H. Jeffers created those twenty-two photographs, as he was active in California during this time period. Other photographers who contributed to this album include Thomas H. Rutter, Charles B. Talbot, and Boyd & Braas (William F. Boyd and George H. Braas). The initials "E.B.R." and the year 1897 are embossed on the photo album's spine.

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Caroline Adelaide Lankershim photograph album

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