Album of photographs of Los Angeles County, California, and Denver, Colorado

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  Photograph album of Colorado frontier towns

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  A photograph album containing 113 images of frontier towns, scenery, and residents of Colorado, 1860s-1871. The album is inscribed: "Photos brought home from Colorado - U.S. by J. V. Smedley, May 1871" and contains handwritten captions. Georgetown, Denver, Blackhawk, and other frontier towns are seen in bird's-eye-views and street scenes, along with some portraits dating from the 1860s. Views of Denver include the first buildings, streets with storefronts, and an 1868 photograph by Williams & McDonald of a covered wagon train lined up in a circle with several teams of horses. Landscape photographs depict the Rocky Mountains, Garden of the Gods, Pike's Peak, and two images of a farm and small town titled "Maxwell Land Grant, New Mexico." A few Native Americans are seen in carte-de-visite portraits captioned: "Spotted Tail, Chief of the Cheyennes"; "Pia, Chief of the Utes, a notorious scalp taker"; and "Jack & Pop. Utes." Other portraits are identified as "Mariano Modena - A Mexican"; "Jim Baker"; and "James P. Beckwourth" (a.k.a. Beckwirth, Beckwith), the African American frontiersman and adventurer.

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  Photograph album of Colorado frontier towns

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  A photograph album containing 113 images of frontier towns, scenery, and residents of Colorado, 1860s-1871. The album is inscribed: "Photos brought home from Colorado - U.S. by J. V. Smedley, May 1871" and contains handwritten captions. Georgetown, Denver, Blackhawk, and other frontier towns are seen in bird's-eye-views and street scenes, along with some portraits dating from the 1860s. Views of Denver include the first buildings, streets with storefronts, and an 1868 photograph by Williams & McDonald of a covered wagon train lined up in a circle with several teams of horses. Landscape photographs depict the Rocky Mountains, Garden of the Gods, Pike's Peak, and two images of a farm and small town titled "Maxwell Land Grant, New Mexico." A few Native Americans are seen in carte-de-visite portraits captioned: "Spotted Tail, Chief of the Cheyennes"; "Pia, Chief of the Utes, a notorious scalp taker"; and "Jack & Pop. Utes." Other portraits are identified as "Mariano Modena - A Mexican"; "Jim Baker"; and "James P. Beckwourth" (a.k.a. Beckwirth, Beckwith), the African American frontiersman and adventurer.

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  Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Los Angeles photograph album

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  The album is a published collection of souvenir views of Los Angeles, California, and vicinity. Included are views of the Plaza Church; central Los Angeles; Los Angeles area parks (East Lake Park, West Lake Park, Hollenbeck Park, Elysian Park); the "new" Los Angeles County courthouse; the San Gabriel and San Fernando Missions; Baldwin's Ranch; Riverside; the Sawtelle Soldier's Home; scenes of recreational activities in Santa Monica; Redlands; Redondo Beach; the Mount Lowe cable incline railway; and Pasadena.

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  [Photograph album of scenes of California, Colorado, and Utah]

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  Photograph album containing commercial images of scenic views of natural landscapes, tourist destinations including hotels and landmarks, and town streets, mostly in California, as well as some in Colorado and Utah. Photographed locales include San Francisco, Yosemite, San Diego and Coronado, Denver, and Salt Lake City. 27 photographers are by Isaiah W. Taber of San Francisco; other photographers represented are Maude, Slocum, Reed, W.H. Fletcher, and Johnson. The album compiler is unidentified.

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  Denver, Colorado

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  Denver and the Mountain Parks. [191-?] Denver: H. H. Tammen Co. (illustrations)

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  Photograph album of early aviation at Dycer Airport, Los Angeles County, California

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  An album of photographs depicting members of the Branesky family posing with airplanes and equipment, and several aerial views of Los Angeles cityscapes and oil fields taken while in flight. Many photographs were taken at Dycer Airport, which was located in Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California. Images include the boys with model airplanes, their flight instructors, airplane mechanics, a crashed plane, and the Braneskys' airplanes, with several captions. A few newspaper clippings discuss the Branesky brothers and their enthusiasm for flying. The final pages of the album include photographs of boats, a deep-sea fishing excursion with family members posed with fish, and scenery around Mt. Wilson.

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