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Glass plate negatives and lantern slides
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Glass plates, negatives, and lantern slides
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The collection consists of approximately 6,700 photographs, which includes photographic prints and 4 x 5 inch and smaller glass negatives, glass positives, film negatives and lantern slides depicting Southern California (mainly Los Angeles and nearby communities). The collection provides quite a comprehensive picture of the growth and development of Los Angeles at the turn of the twentieth century. The smaller format items are mostly copy negatives (not originals) taken by Ellis of images in other collections. Ellis copied the photographic holdings of, among others, Bancroft, Behrendt, Tyler, Hill, Ingersoll, Forman, Rowan, Foxley, Guinn, Fryer, A.W. Francisco, McPherson, Charles Prudhomme and William Burton. The collection is particularly strong in images of Central Los Angeles from the 1880s to the 1910s and Los Angeles County beach communities in the 1900s and 1910s. Also of note are images of sites and themes of historic or cultural significance, and portraits. In addition to images of central Los Angeles, the collection includes images of Los Angeles County beach communities, Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley, and Orange, Ventura, San Bernardino and San Diego Counties. The historic and cultural sites include photographs of missions and churches; commercial, municipal and residential buildings, including historic adobes; schools and parks; railroads, emigration, and stagecoach routes; Campo de Cahuenga; Busch Gardens in Pasadena; the Modjeska home in Santa Ana; the Lake Vineyard, Sunnyslope, and the Rowland properties in the San Gabriel Valley; and images of Native Americans and Native American culture. Portraits include those of California pioneers, prominent Angelinos and San Diegans, including J. Lancaster Brent, George Horatio Derby, Hillard Dorsey, the Ellis Family, Judge A.J. King and family, Vicente Lugo, Charles Prudhomme, Truman H. Rose, William Rubottom, Abel Stearns, 1st Worshipful Master of the California Masonic Lodge Levi Stowall, and the Workman family. Some of the 4 x 5 inch and smaller glass negatives and lantern slides depict historic sites of Northern California, including mining camps of the California Gold Rush. There are also miscellaneous images pertaining to themes with no direct relationship to California or the American West, such as Freemasonry and general United States history. The United States history images include copies of Abraham Lincoln portraits and the Lincoln home in Kentucky as well as early American figures including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
photCL 188
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Reverend Berry Edmiston collection of photographs of Apache peoples
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A collection of 45 photographs (glass plate negatives, lantern slides, and copy prints) of Chiricahua? Apache people at an encampment in Arizona, approximately 1899. Images include Apache men, women, and children in a line outside a federal agency building in San Carlos, Arizona; a woman and man displaying baskets; Apache men standing in a line next to a U.S. Army soldier; brush huts and adobe buildings; Apache men riding horses and holding guns (probably scouts). Three images show Apache men and a boy in poses for the Devil Dance, wearing headdresses, masks, and blankets, and holding weapons. One group portrait depicts Native American and Anglo men and women posed together. There are also five copy photographs of the collector, Reverend Berry Edmiston, and his wife Ednah Lee Edmiston, seen in youth and in old age, including one image of them standing outside their Riverside, California home, approximately 1890s. Box 1 contains copy prints of all the glass plate negatives, and 17 of 30 lantern slides. Some lantern slides are duplicates of the glass plate images.
photCL 623
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Glass Plate Negatives
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A collection of photographs documenting miner Robert S. Watt and family living in the mountains of Los Angeles County at the turn of the 20th century. Views show daily activities and places visited; people hunting and living in cabins; horses; and a few group portraits, such as Los Angeles County Hospital Nurses on a picnic (1905) with names written on back. Other views show ships and a harbor, possibly in San Pedro, California; Los Angeles buildings (Plaza Church and County Courthouse) and oil wells. Mining scenes include the Watt Mines Supply Co. building in Los Angeles; men at an excavation; stamp mill machinery; a man standing at entrance to mine; and mule teams with supplies. There is also a group of photographs of Alaska, showing trappers, roadhouses, scenery, and a miner staking a claim on a river. There are also two U.S. citizenship certificates for Robert S. Watt (1890) and Alexander Barrie (1901), emigrants from Scotland.
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Lantern slides
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These lantern slides date from approximately 1900-1920s, and are mostly duplicates of negatives or photographs elsewhere in the collection. The slides are in 73 boxes in an arbitrary sequence, and have not been arranged or identified. A few of the slides have original paper labels with handwritten caption information.
Series 7
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[Miscellaneous lantern slides]
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Views of primarily residential interiors. Some exteriors and swimming pools; a desert exterior with carousel horses as garden ornaments; a large hotel(?) lobby. Most are cropped versions of color transparencies that are in other projects.
photCL MLP 3010.1
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Glass negatives
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Glass negatives corresponding to prints in Box 5: Folder 26, Folder 27 (1, 2, 4), Folder 28.
photCL 275