Visual Materials

The Banning home, Los Angeles, California

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Description: An album with 21 photographs of "Captain" William Sanford Banning's residence, nicknamed "The Barn", located at 1012 West 31st Street, near Hoover Street, in Los Angeles, California. There are views of the interior and exterior, and photographs of the plans for the first and second floors; many of the photographs document details of the intricately carved furniture in the house. Exterior views show the famous and rare cast-iron "Cornstalk" fence, made in 1858 by Wood & Perot of Philadelphia, which originally stood at a New Orleans residence before being purchased by Banning in 1910. The house was demolished around 1930. Note: this house is not the Banning house in Wilmington that appears on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Production date: approximately 1930.
Call number: photCL 64
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Residence of Eddie Cantor, Beverly Hills, Cal

Visual Materials

Image of the exterior of the residence of singer and actor Eddie Cantor at 1012 North Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills, California, as seen from the street.

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Railroad Line, Los Angeles and San Pedro; Edward A. Flint : sketch map

Manuscripts

On Banning & Co. stationery: sketch of Banning's Yard via First street intersected by Rebecca & Canal streets, showing distances. Title supplied by cataloger.

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Phineas Banning. Letter to Benjamin Davis Wilson. Los Angeles, California

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.

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Joseph Brent Banning home, 945 Westlake Avenue, Los Angeles

Visual Materials

The Banning Family Collection of Photographs, Part II, 1814-1979, consists of 1204 photographs and 23 photographs albums. The three most substantial categories of images in this collection are views of Santa Catalina Island; Banning family properties and residences in southern California; and portraits of family members and relatives. Of special significance are the Catalina photographs documenting the development of the island from a natural enclave with a few inhabitants to a thriving tourist resort. Volume 7 in the Family Album section contains images of the devastating effects of the Catalina fire of 1915. Also of particular interest are photographs of the George S. Patton family.

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Photograph album of a family and their home in Westlake Park, Los Angeles

Visual Materials

An album of 28 photographs of a well-off Los Angeles family and their expansive, richly appointed home directly across the street from Westlake Park (now MacArthur Park) in Los Angeles. The photographs were likely taken shortly before American businessman Homer Laughlin bought the home, as a handwritten caption notes it was sold to Laughlin of "East Liverpool, Ohio." Images include photographs of the exterior and various interior rooms, showing furniture, a grand piano, several angles of the parlor, the dining hall, "Papa's Room," and the children's room. Other photographs depict the lush garden around the home, often including children Marion and Elizabeth playing or picking "California wildflowers" with their grandmother Louisa and other family members, including one of "Papa" labeled with the initials "E. G. J." The family home's address is given as 9th Westlake Avenue, possibly what is current day Alvarado Street. Other photographs include women in fancy Victorian dress, images of Westlake Park, the bells of San Gabriel Mission, and a group photograph of "the Dane family, Pasadena." This is most likely Ezra Dane (1828-1921) and family at their "Sunny Ridge" residence.

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Farrand, George E.: Residential alterations (322 S. Windsor Blvd., Los Angeles, California)

Visual Materials

Date built: 1931 ; Architect: Kaufmann, Gordon B. ; Description: Interior and exterior views of residence featuring before and after shots of Colonial style house remodeled into a more Spanish Colonial style.

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The Banning home, Los Angeles, California

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