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Photograph album of Pasadena, Los Angeles, and environs

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Description: A photographic album with 127 photographs of Los Angeles, Pasadena, the Arroyo Seco, and surrounding areas in Southern California. The photographs include views of the Hotel Green and the Carnival (later the Festival) of Roses in Pasadena, the Los Angeles City Oil Field taken from Westlake Park, and informal group photographs in nearby camping areas like Camp Sturtevant in the Angeles National Forest and Wilson's Peak. Several group photographs taken in front of houses and include dogs. There are also some views of Niagara Falls and the James A. Garfield Memorial in Cleveland, Ohio, and 16 clippings of inspirational articles from the Christian Science Monitor.
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Production date: approximately 1890-approximately 1910.
Call number: photCL 70
Provenance: Purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, 1951.

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

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An album with approximately 250 photographs of Los Angeles County, California, and Denver, Colorado. Views of Los Angeles and vicinity include street scenes, oil derricks, Angel's Flight, the North Beach Bath House and Bowling Pavilion in Santa Monica, Arcadia Hotel in Santa Monica, Castle Green in Pasadena, and Cawston Ostrich Farm and its solar-powered engine, the "Solar Motor" (a cone-shaped reflector used to collect and focus sunlight). Views of Denver include the State Capitol building and the BPO Elks Golden Jubilee celebration, held in 1914. Several winter scenes (probably from Colorado) feature large groups ice-skating. There are views of unidentified rural landscapes of plains, farms, and railroad tracks through wooded areas. A photograph near the end is labeled "A study in bronze" and shows six Native American children seated on two donkeys with a Native American man standing nearby.

photCL 68

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Stiles Collection of Photographs of South Pasadena and Los Angeles County

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This collection contains 209 photographs of families, residences, commercial and municipal buildings, and the natural environment of South Pasadena, the city and county of Los Angeles, and other locations chiefly in California, taken approximately 1887-1913, mostly by photographer T. D. Keith ([1848]-1896); one undated photograph is by Los Angeles photographer Elkanah P. Tresslar, and other images taken after Keith's death are by an unidentified photographer. Photographs chiefly show South Pasadena residents and residences, including Keith's home and family and other families; many of the photographs provide a glimpse of clothing and dress styles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Photographs also depict South Pasadena buildings and scenes, including the first and second Raymond Hotel and South Pasadena High School; panoramic views of South Pasadena; railroads; various views of the San Gabriel Valley and Los Angeles; Santa Catalina Island; and the Tournament of Roses Parade in 1901 in Pasadena. The collection also includes a few photographs showing scenes from San Diego County and the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and individual images of the San Juan Capistrano Mission and of a street scene in Tijuana, Mexico. A few images, such as Item 37, are originals with the stamp "Keith" on versos. The photographs are chiefly later prints from glass-plate negatives and, to a lesser extent, from copy film negatives; these prints were made by the Huntington photo lab in the 1980s. Also included are 20 prints without corresponding negatives, one cabinet card photograph, and a chiefly blank notebook containing three pages of handwritten titles for some of the photographs. The collection contains many duplicates.

photCL 280

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

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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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South Pasadena and Los Angeles County

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photCL 280

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Photographs in Los Angeles County and Pasadena

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Consists of fourteen photographs. Ten photographs, including some duplicates, are portraits of Arthur W. Sinclair, Marjorie Rowley Sinclair, Robert S. Sinclair, and Agnes Rowley (labeled as Mrs. H. H. Sinclair). Some were taken at 375 Waverly Drive, Pasadena. One photograph of a 1842-3 portrait of Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, later Mrs. Levi Rowley, is also included. The four remaining items are: one photograph of a portrait of Samuel Sewall; one group photo of a picnic on Mount Wilson with Dr. B. M. Page, Governor Henry Harrison Markham, Benjamin Page, and Frank Daggett in attendance; and two photographs of Robert W. Lull and his bookstore at 1 Chapel St., Newburyport, Massachusetts.

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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.

photCL 655

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