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Series 02. Photograph Albums

Description: 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
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: circa 1910s-1949
Call number: photCL 555
Creator: Marquez, Ernest (1924-)(Opens in new tab)

Robert (Bob) Hutton Topanga Canyon album

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Photograph album of 46 pages, with 214 photographs and many handwritten captions by Robert Hutton identifying people and places. A personal snapshot album of young Robert Hutton's time spent living in a cabin in Topanga Canyon, and his activities with friends and residents. Also some views of trips to other parts of California and Oregon. Identified people: James A. Craig (Topanga postmaster); Fred and Stella McAllister; Moses and William Lee Greenleaf; the Olsens; Les Storrs; Mort Allen; Elva Plaistridge. Other views: camping in Little Rock and Swarthout Valley, Ca.; trip to the Rogue River and Crater Lake in Oregon, 1917; group portrait of Santa Monica High School English class students, 1917 (p. 3); storefronts in Pescadero, Ca., 1918 (p. 24); boys in camping gear and holding rifles, Temescal Canyon, 1914 (p. 1). Some loose photographs digitized with album, at the end: Young Robert Hutton and other children with soap box derby cars in Santa Monica, ca. 1908-1915; Judge George H. Hutton and Dolores E. Hutton (his parents); and a group of students and teachers in front of Roosevelt Elementary School in 1908, with a list of names.

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Robert Hutton Santa Monica High School album and scrapbook

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82 photographs, primarily of student actors in costume, with handwritten captions by Robert Hutton and fellow drama student Lysbeth Le Fevre. Other material: Clippings about plays from "The Samohi" student newspaper; S.M.H.S. theater programs; 1918 commencement program ("George Robert Hutton" listed in graduating class); student name cards; class songs; drama teacher William Lee Greenleaf; Hutton and friends in Topanga Canyon, Mt. Wilson, Bear Valley, and Berkeley, Ca.

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Theresa Sletton photograph album of Topanga Canyon, Echo Mountain and Mount Wilson

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A disbound album of 20 album pages and accompanying loose photographs, comprising 153 photographs, 2 pieces of artwork and 2 newspaper clippings. Theresa Sletton was the first schoolteacher in Topanga, California, and her photograph album focuses on her and other early residents in Topanga Canyon, ca. 1913. The photographs show Theresa Sletton in her cabin and on walks; the school and students; the school garden; the town post office; residents and their homes; "Luther Ranch" and beekeeping; a "prisoner's camp" and workers doing road building. The album also has a few views of Sletton and others at Echo Mountain and Mount Wilson, and there is one view of a "trackless trolley" in Laurel Canyon. Many photographs have handwritten captions by Sletton. People identified in the album: William Reynolds; Stella McAllister; Bertha Corbett Melcher (artist who originated the "Sunbonnet Babies"); Morton Allen; Norris Julian; David Santa Maria; William Santa Maria; Mr. Vivian Butler; Herbert Land; Bertha Chase; Florence and Tom Cheney; James A. Craig (postmaster); Mr. Lugo; Cal Cheney; Rev. Frederick Post and Mr. Dolores Trujillo. Identifications are mostly from Sletton's handwritten captions and a few from notes that accompanied the album.

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Loose photographs accompanying Robert Hutton album

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Robert Hutton and others in Santa Monica, ca. 1908-1972.

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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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Series 01. Photographic prints

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This is a collection primarily of negatives and photographic prints depicting the growth of Santa Monica and Los Angeles, California, from 1860s to 1980s. Many views are cityscapes or street views, showing buildings, storefronts, homes and roads, and documenting the use of railroads, trolleys, streetcars, and automobiles. There are many card photographs by early professional photographers, and also a number of snapshots made by amateurs, some in personal photo albums. The collection's scope also includes early views of many other communities in Southern California (and a few in other states); the beginnings of aviation in Santa Monica, including the first Douglas Aircraft Company buildings; a photo album of residents in Topanga Canyon, ca. 1913; automobile racing in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, 1920s; maritime views; a photo album of U.S. troops in France during World War I; a 1949 real estate development in Apple Valley, California, and others. Besides photographs, a portion of the collection consists of scarce publications and historical ephemera, primarily related to Santa Monica and Los Angeles, including brochures, advertising cards, menus, event programs and other materials. Highlights of the Santa Monica images are aerial views of the buildings along the coast and pier (1920s); several views of the Arcadia Hotel (1880s); the Long Wharf and adjoining railroad and train depot; the first bath houses on the beach; the beach club culture of the 1920s and 1930s; the amusement piers of Santa Monica, Ocean Park and Venice; and the beginnings of the Douglas Aircraft Company. There is a large set of promotional photographs made late 1920s-1930s by Powell Press Service depicting people enjoying Santa Monica's beaches, clubs and outdoor recreation. An important subset within the collection is 407 negatives made ca. 1890 - 1908 by Los Angeles historian and amateur photographer George W. Hazard (1842-1914). Hazard travelled around Los Angeles and vicinity photographing the adobes, houses, streets and storefronts that told the early history of the city. Many of Hazard's negatives have handwritten identifications, naming streets, former homeowners, ranchos, and other historical details. There are a large number of cabinet cards and other card-mounted prints and stereographs. There are 1,264 stereograph prints, highlighted by the works of photographic pioneers William M. Godfrey, Francis Parker, Hayward & Muzzall, and Carleton Watkins. Other formats represented are: glass and film negatives; panoramic prints; 7 photograph albums, photographic postcards, 20th-century color prints and transparencies; and a small number of tintypes, cyanotypes and a set of chromolithographs.

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Robert (Bob) Hutton Topanga Canyon album

Robert Hutton Santa Monica High School album and scrapbook

Theresa Sletton photograph album of Topanga Canyon, Echo Mountain and Mount Wilson

Loose photographs accompanying Robert Hutton album

Photograph album of California and travels in the West

Series 01. Photographic prints