Charles C. Puck collection of photographs and ephemera

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  Historical Society of Southern California Collection -- Charles Puck Collection of Negatives and Photographs

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  The Puck Collection consists of more than 11,000 photographs and negatives both taken and collected by Los Angeles resident and local history enthusiast Charles Puck. Puck took (and collected) photographs of buildings, monuments, civic happenings, modes of transportation, flora and fauna, and anything else that captured his particular interests. He had a penchant for construction, demolition, and disaster of both the natural and human variety, making systematic photographic surveys of anything that fell within these broad categories. He compiled several scrapbooks on topics such as adobes and buildings of Los Angeles, illustrating them with his photographs and annotating them with historical anecdotes and personal recollections. Puck also collected the work of noted Los Angeles photographers like Charles C. Pierce and James B. Blanchard to supplement his own archive; on many of these pictures he wrote comments on the verso. At the time of his gift to the Historical Society of Southern California, Puck had amassed a large array of images documenting the changing face of Los Angeles and its environs. An avid tourist and automobile adventurer, Puck traveled throughout California to historical points of interest. He motored around the sites of the Gold Rush, and frequently ventured into the Sierra Nevada Mountains on camping trips. Aside from pictures of Los Angeles, Puck took shots in many other counties of the state including Orange County, San Diego County, Imperial County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, Kern County, Ventura County, Santa Barbara County, San Luis Obispo County, Inyo County, and the counties in the eastern and central portions of California. Puck also traveled by car to places outside California, mostly in the Southwestern states and to Mexico. Pictures of trips taken between 1918 and 1953 to such places as Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Nevada and Mexico are included in the collection, primarily in the form of negatives.

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  Photographs created and collected by Charles Saunders

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  The Charles Francis Saunders and Mira Culin Saunders Collection of Photographs and Negatives consists of 5826 black and white photographs, 68 glass plate negatives, 3832 film negatives, 10 photographs albums, 261 lantern slides, and related ephemera, ca. 1871-1965 (bulk 1910s-1920s), collected and created by Charles Francis Saunders, Elisabeth Hallowell Saunders, and Mira Culin Saunders. The collection provides a comprehensive overview of Charles Saunders' activities as a naturalist and travel writer.

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  Fanchon and Marco collection of photographs and ephemera

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  The Fanchon & Marco collection contains approximately 1400 photographs depicting hundreds of Fanchon and Marco Inc. sets and performers between approximately 1925 and 1938. The collection also includes three boxes of ephemera, dated from around 1912 to 1940, that consist of newspapers clippings, scrapbooks of clippings, musical scores, miscellaneous photographs, and the supplemental press books that were included with Fanchon & Marco's promotional magazine, Now (later The Idea), dating from 1930 and 1931. The 16 volumes (now disbound) of photographs in this collection served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco sets and performers. The images document the actors, dancers, costumes, sets, and concepts and appear to have been primarily photographed during rehearsals before the shows premiered in Los Angeles theaters such as Loew's State Theater and the Paramount Theater. The first volume contains some photographs presumably taken in San Francisco and later volumes include a few photographs by New York-based photographers.Accompanying descriptive information is scant with few performers identified by name. A typescript inventory with Idea titles precedes volumes 1-8. The production name appears in pencil on the back of many of the pages in Volumes 1-12. Volume 13 contains stage and lighting directions in typescript on the backs of some photographs.Photographers represented in the collection are: Archer's Art Shop of Los Angeles (Volume 6, 8, 11, 13); Hollywood photographers Irving Archer (Volume 12, 13, 14), Archer's Studios (Volume 8, 11, 13, 14); Curt Fox (Volumes 5-6); Paralta Studios (Volumes 2-4); and Harry Wenger (Volumes 1, 2-4, 6). A few photographs include the imprints of Peerless Photo of Los Angeles (Volume 13), John Sirgio (Volume 13), H.W. Steward of San Francisco (Volume 1), Talbot of New York (Volume 12), Weaver of Los Angeles (Volume 1), and White Studio of New York (Volume 9).

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  Large color postcards, loose photographs, and ephemera

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  Approximately 200 loose photographs, 100 color postcards, and some ephemera. The photographs are small, black and white snapshots of unidentified people and scenes in the Philippines. Images are grouped together as they were received, in individual sets of prints acquired from various sources. Many have handwriting on the back. The large photographic color postcards were made approximately 1967 to 1997, and feature dancers, festivals, tourist attractions and others. Almost all published by the National Book Store, Manila. Ephemera consists of Philippines postage stamps; paper money printed with "The Japanese Government"; and a club card and photograph for the Mariner's Club, Manila, 1930s.

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  Collection of photographs illustrating places mentioned in the works of Charles Dickens

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  A collection of 127 photographs depicting places throughout England featured in the writings of Charles Dickens as they appeared in approximately 1890 to approximately 1910. Most of the photographs feature the exteriors of buildings in London, Rochester, Canterbury, Dover, Kent, and Portsmouth. The buildings include shops, residences, rooming houses, inns and hotels, cathedrals, churches, abbeys, and a castle. There are multiple photographs of Rochester Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, and Gray's Inn. The majority of the photographs depict locations in Dickens's novels. Handwritten captions on the verso reference the work's title and occasionally the chapter in which the place appears.The novels represented are Bleak House (no. 1-11); David Copperfield (no. 12-23); Great expectations (no. 24-25); Little Dorrit (no. 26-30); Martin Chuzzlewit (no. 31-44); The mystery of Edwin Drood (no. 45-64); Nicholas Nickleby (no. 66-67); Oliver Twist (no. 68-74); and Pickwick papers (no. 76-78). There is also a group of photographs depicting locations in the "Tramps" chapter of Dickens's The uncommercial traveler (no. 79-84), as well as locations where Dickens himself stayed during his writing and travels (no. 86-121).

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  California Geological Survey photographs

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  Consists of fifty copy print photographs. The majority are associated with William H. Brewer and are labeled "Wm. H. Brewer Mojave Expedition(?)" which traveled between Wilmington, California to Fort Mojave, Arizona from 1863-1864. The photos are of indigenous people, landscapes, botany, and expeditioners. Some were also attributed to the photographer Rudolph D'Heureuse. Locations include the Colorado River, Macedonian Mountains, Rock Springs, Dry Canyon, El Dorado Canyon, Tettchatticup Tunnel, Cedar Spring Canyon, Marl Spring, Warm Soda Springs (Soda Lake), Camp Cady, Lewis Spring, Sugar Loaf, Helendale, Oro Grande, Cajon Pass, and the Wozencraft House. Three photographs were taken of San Diego's Culverwell's Wharf and Horton House. Named individuals include Captain Atchisson, Chief Tercherrum, Dr. Stark, John Moss, Elder Lyman, John Peter Gabriel, and Mrs. J. P. Gabriel. Some indigenous people were identified as Mojave Paiutes (Asper-ka-miah or Eagles), and some plant life are identified as yucca, Joshua Tree, and other cacti. Some catalog cards have noted that original prints are in the holdings of the University of California, Berkeley's Bancroft Library.

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