Scenic Points in Southern California: Tanner Motor Tours photograph album

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  Photograph album of motor sports in Southern California

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  A photograph album of people with their motorcycles and automobiles, on outdoor excursions in Southern California in the early-20th century. Most images have writing on the back and feature a group of two men and two women named Eleanor, Hazel, Otto, and Russell (surnames unknown). In one photograph, they stand next to their motorcycles, wearing goggles, with pennants reading: "1915 San Francisco," "Riverside," and "Redlands," presumably in the midst of a road trip. Otto is also seen standing in front of a "New Era Motor Cycle" store in Redlands, California, and pushing his motorcycle with a spare tire strapped to the front. Other images include riders in an automobile in Tijuana, Mexico, 1915; visiting Big Bear Lake and dam; and a caravan of automobiles driving up a mountain road. Three photographs at Lake Arrowhead feature an Essex Motor Company automobile painted with advertising reading: "The N-Durance Essex, driven by Charles H. Holdson," 1923.

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  Tanner Motor Livery, 144 West Colorado, Pasadena. 1930

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  Street view of the Tanner Motor Livery at 144 West Colorado. The building has two stories, and a front door wide enough for Automobiles to drive through. Automobiles on display are visible through this door.

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  Black and white taxis, Tanner Motor Livery, 144 West Colorado, Pasadena. 1936

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  Ten black and white taxis owned by Tanner Motor Livery at 144 West Colorado, parked at approximately 139 West Colorado. The automobiles are parked in front of Woods & Jones Printers, Campbell Seed Store, the Bronx diner, and Nipedal Studio designers.

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  W. R. Densmore photograph album of early automobile touring

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  An early automobile photograph album and scrapbook compiled by W. R. Densmore of the Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit. The album contains over 100 professionally-made photographs, with 19 approximately 8 x 10 inches, and also contains newspaper clippings about Densmore, early automobiles, and races. The album primarily chronicles Densmore's driving tours, although it also contains material dealing with other aspects of his life. Many images chronicle the famous Los Angeles to San Francisco drive of 1904, with Densmore and three companions seen in a Packard touring car. The other men were: H. B. Larzelere of Pacific Motor Car Company, San Francisco; Wallace W. Everett, guide; and H. A. French, correspondent for The Automobile magazine. Other images record similar overland auto journeys, in the White Mountains (1905); Long Island, New York (1905); the Wilkes-Barre Mountains, Pennsylvania (1905); and a grand tour of Italy (1913). Most of the automobiles featured are early Packard models, with riders in open-air cars, often wearing goggles and duster coats.

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  W. R. Densmore photograph album of early automobile touring

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  An early automobile photograph album and scrapbook compiled by W. R. Densmore of the Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit. The album contains over 100 professionally-made photographs, with 19 approximately 8 x 10 inches, and also contains newspaper clippings about Densmore, early automobiles, and races. The album primarily chronicles Densmore's driving tours, although it also contains material dealing with other aspects of his life. Many images chronicle the famous Los Angeles to San Francisco drive of 1904, with Densmore and three companions seen in a Packard touring car. The other men were: H. B. Larzelere of Pacific Motor Car Company, San Francisco; Wallace W. Everett, guide; and H. A. French, correspondent for The Automobile magazine. Other images record similar overland auto journeys, in the White Mountains (1905); Long Island, New York (1905); the Wilkes-Barre Mountains, Pennsylvania (1905); and a grand tour of Italy (1913). Most of the automobiles featured are early Packard models, with riders in open-air cars, often wearing goggles and duster coats.

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  Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Veda Kemper photograph album, (bulk 1935-1938)

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  The album consists of 295 black-and-white and hand-tinted portraits and group photographs depicting Veda Kemper, members of her family, and friends chiefly in the late 1930s. Many of these photographs were taken at homes in Denver, Colorado; Evanston, Illinois; Omaha, Nebraska; and Florida, as well as in and around Southern California. Also included are photographs [taken by Kemper?] depicting landscapes and cityscapes, primarily in Southern California; some of these include family and friends. Among these are views of Avalon; Griffith Park; the Rose Parade in Pasadena; the Los Angeles River; the Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles; Balboa Park and the 1935 San Diego Exposition; the auditorium in Long Beach; the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.; the Hollywood Bowl; the Laguna Hotel; Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale; Switzer's Camp in the Angeles National Forest; the Huntington Library; Palm Springs; Central Los Angeles (8th Street, Clifton Cafeteria on Olive Street, the Figueroa Hotel and Figueroa Street, a rally on Broadway, the Petroleum Securities Building at Figueroa and Olympic, and crowds gathered for President Roosevelt and General Patton); the gardens of Gurdon Wattles' home on North Curson Street in Hollywood; the Bernheimer Gardens in Santa Monica; Seattle; Santa Anita and Hollywood Parks; Los Angeles theatres (including the Paramount) at Christmas, with performances by Kathryn Ames and the Singing Strings; Santa Barbara; Lake Arrowhead; Big Bear; Tijuana; and the American Legion Convention.

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