Skip to content

Visual Materials

Handmade photography instruction magazine and family album

Image not available



You might also be interested in

  • Image not available

    Alice S. Arikawa photograph album

    Visual Materials

    A photograph and scrapbook album compiled by Alice S. Arikawa, a young Japanese American woman in Los Angeles, California, that chronicles her youth from 1934 to 1942, just before the Japanese American internment during World War II. Snapshot photographs are pasted on black paper pages, with captions by Arikawa written in white pencil. Images depict Arikawa and friends at Lafayette Junior High School, then Jefferson High School (both in central Los Angeles), and participating in a wide range of social and school activities in and around the Los Angeles area. She and a diverse group of friends are seen on beach outings, going to Santa Anita Park, the Huntington Library gardens (four images), attending a formal dance, and horseback riding. Other subjects are her family, a business correspondence class in 1936, and activities with the Kalifans, a Y.W.C.A. social group. The album's last images are dated March 1942, just before Arikawa's incarceration at the Manzanar War Relocation Center. The album contains a graduation class portrait taken inside Manzanar, but it does not appear that Arikawa is part of this group (she graduated from high school in 1937). Ephemeral items include school programs, and an identification card belonging to Arikawa's brother, John, age 15.

    photCL 637

  • Image not available

    Photo album #8: Shaw family

    Manuscripts

    Family photographs, trips to Yosemite, Bishop, Death Valley, Crater Lake, and British Columbia. Cataloger's note: Originally, album #5. 1 item

    mssShawfamily

  • Image not available

    Jackson family photograph album

    Visual Materials

    A collection of three photograph albums, one college scrapbook, 103 loose photographs, and ephemera documenting the education, family life, teaching career, and travels of Mamie Marie Walton-Jackson (1916-2009). The materials span approximately from 1916 to 1968. The college scrapbook includes images, lists, and ephemera representing Walton-Jackson, her classmates, instructors, and campus life. The three photograph albums cover Jackson's wedding day, her husband, her son Durante, family-related events; her career as a home economics instructor at Buford High School from nineteen fifty one through nineteen fifty two, pupils, fellow instructors; and vacations in the West and Southwest. The loose photographs and ephemera cover the aforementioned areas. The six pieces of loose ephemera include a Mother's Day card from her son, a newspaper clipping about her niece Janice, a cable car ornament, a napkin from the Buford High School 1953 Junior-Senior Prom, a small Faculty label, and a small Clark College label. Among the photograph albums and loose photographs are color as well as hand-colored images of a younger Mamie, Jerry, Durante, and friends and family.

    photCL 695

  • Image not available

    Brockway family album

    Visual Materials

    Bound photograph album with images depicting the family of Adna F. Brockway and Annie Brockway, their children, Leon Brockway and Elsie Brockway Snyder, and grandchildren, Dorothy and Marjorie. The album documents the family from the late 1880s to the early 1940s and includes scenes, residences, baby pictures, and family portraits, with detailed handwritten captions throughout. The album begins in 1886 with scenes and residences in Orleans, Vermont, and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and proceeds to South Pasadena, California, where the family moved in 1887. Scenes in South Pasadena and surrounding areas include the Brockway residence at 306 N. Raymond Ave., including interior views, the Marengo Hotel in 1888 with "Vermonters celebrating Thanksgiving" gathered on the porch, a schoolhouse, the Arroyo Seco (including Scoville Dam), the San Gabriel Mountain camps, a trip to British Columbia, and scenes of life in Southern California at the beaches, the California Missions, floats from the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, and a dilapidated cabin identified as "A Mexican home." Many of the snapshots document family activities and outings including camping, riding bicycles, and visiting friends and neighbors. There are many excellent tintype and cartes-de-visite portraits of members of the Brockway and Garland families, dating from 1866, with descriptions of the sitter and date. Among the photographs there is a forty-year reunion photograph of women from the Pasadena High School class of 1897, a photograph by A.C. Vroman showing a group of amateur photographers crossing a stream in the Arroyo, ca. 1897, and Dorothy and Marjorie shown at Pomona College in the 1920s.

    photCL 532

  • Image not available

    Alma Rodriguez Sarlot family photograph albums

    Visual Materials

    Three photograph albums documenting several generations of the Rodriguez family, a Mexican American family living in Los Angeles. Photographs depict home life and social activities in South Los Angeles, Glendale, and other neighborhoods; weddings and baby christenings; and other family events. There are also school photographs of children and photographs of family members in military uniform.

    photCL 698

  • Image not available

    Alma Rodriguez Sarlot family photograph albums

    Visual Materials

    Three photograph albums documenting several generations of the Rodriguez family, a Mexican American family living in Los Angeles. Photographs depict home life and social activities in South Los Angeles, Glendale, and other neighborhoods; weddings and baby christenings; and other family events. There are also school photographs of children and photographs of family members in military uniform.

    photCL 698