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Travel album of San Diego and vicinity

Description

Travel album of snapshots of people and sights in San Diego, U.S. and Mexico border area, and other locations, possibly along a railroad trip.

46 photographs, 2 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches each. The compiler/photographer is unidentified. Views include: young men in uniforms camping; San Diego County Courthouse; Los Banos bathhouse; Hotel del Coronado; Coronado Beach and Boat House; trains; U.S. and Mexico border monument; customs building; a dam; an ostrich farm.

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Date

ca. 1910s

Call number

photCL 555

Creator

Marquez, Ernest (1924-)(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Purchased in part by the Library Collectors' Council from Ernest Marquez, January 2014.

Ephemera - Other California - San Diego and vicinity

Visual Materials

California Pacific International Exposition Pictorial, 1935-36 (map, program, photographs). Album of San Diego and Coronado Beach, Cal.Ohio: Ward Bros., 1887. Illustrations. Individual items for Escondido, La Mesa, La Jolla; Green Line Auto Tours; Lakeside Inn (El Cajon Valley).

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Photograph album of California and travels in the West

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This album comprises over 300 photographs on 142 pages, showing a young couple at home and on travels in Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Mexico. Notable in the album are views of Southern California Edison power stations and equipment, 1918-1925, (pp. 116 – 135); the Ocean Park Pier fire, 1923 (pp. 69-73); and damage from the Long Beach earthquake, 1933 (pp. 136-143). "G.A.F." is embossed on the cover and there are many views of a man named "G. A. Follette," who is presumably the album compiler and may have been a Southern California Edison employee (see p. 54). Most photographs have handwritten captions, but people are named by first name only, except "Marcel Frenay" (p. 6). Other views include: P.E. Rod & Gun Club rabbit hunt, 1921 (p. 24, 26); Balboa Beach; Newport Beach; caves at La Jolla; Tahquiz Canyon; Mission San Juan Capistrano; Alpine Tavern (Mount Lowe); buffalo grazing at Balboa Park, San Diego; Mt. Rubidoux; San Gabriel Mission; Portland, Oregon; Tijuana, Mexico and a cockfight; cotton harvesting, Imperial Valley; automobile travel and camping; Topanga Canyon landslide (pp. 50-51); flying small airplane over Catalina Island (p. 61); movie set of a medieval castle in Griffith Park (p. 66); "Charles Nelson" ship at sea (p. 13); Spadena House and Willat Studio (a.k.a. "The Witch's House"), Beverly Hills (p. 20).

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San Diego

Visual Materials

Includes: Clippings related to San Diego, 1886 and 1898. San Diego, the Birthplace of California. [A volume of] Kingdom of the Sun. The art magazine de luxe for the library table de luxe, containing over one hundred camera catches flashed from the big out-of-doors of Southern California. Oro Grande, California: Lillian D. Gregory, ca. 1915. (Over 100 halftone photographs)

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House of Mrs. Nichols, San Diego

Visual Materials

View of a residence, with an arched roof design, located at the northwest corner of Twelfth Avenue and Market Street in San Diego, California, surrounded by a fence.

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Newport Avenue and Guizot Street, San Diego

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Landscape view of residential streets and houses in San Diego, California, focused on the intersection of Newport Avenue and Guizot Street, with the house at 4506 Newport Avenue directly at center and the Pacific Ocean and Mission Bay visible in the background.

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Series 02. Photograph Albums

Visual Materials

Vol. 1 Robert Hutton Topanga Canyon album, 1913-1921, + 5 folders of loose photographs Vol. 2 Robert Hutton Santa Monica High School album and scrapbook, 1917-1921 Vol. 3 Theresa Sletton Topanga Canyon album, ca. 1913 Vol. 4 Apple Valley Ranchos photograph album, 1949 Vol. 5 Travel album of San Diego and vicinity, ca. 1910s Vol. 6 Photograph album of California and travels in the West, ca. 1915 -1933 Vol. 7 World War I photograph album: "Photographic History of the A.E.F. in France, 1917-1919" + 6 folders of related photographic postcards

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Travel album of San Diego and vicinity

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