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[Exterior view of The Foo & Wing Herb Co.]

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Description: Exterior view of a two-story commercial building with The Foo & Wing Herb Co. at 926 Fillmore in San Francisco, California, on the second floor over the storefront of the McNeil Bros. printing business. The building is decorated with bunting and American flags, and a campaign advertisements for city attorney are visible on the pole in front.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1913.
Call number: photOV 10216
Provenance: Gift of Jadine Surette, July 2003.
Dimensions: image 24 x 20 cm, mount 35 x 30 cm
Associated people: Surette, Jadine,
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[Exterior view of Chong Shay Herb Co., Los Angeles]

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Exterior view of large Victorian-style residence in Los Angeles, California, with a man and woman standing on the front stairs below a sign advertising the Chong Shay Herb Co. over the entrance. The sign reads "Chong Shay Herb Co. / Natures Own Treatment Herbs/Tea-Herbs-Rice/Tom J. Chong & Tom S. Foo, Herbalists, Hill and 10th Streets, Los Angeles."

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Group portrait in front of the Foo & Wing Herb Co. storefront, 903 S. Olive

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Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) Photographer: Garden City Photo Co. Group portrait of individuals, including a Chinese American man and a man identified in the note on the verso as photographer George W. Hazard. Title devised by cataloger.

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Bird’s eye view of the city of Red Wing : Coodhue Co Minnesota 1868

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Image of an aerial landscape view of the city of Red Wing, Minnesota, showing steamboats on the Mississippi River in the foreground; with three vignettes in the lower margin of eye-level street views of the public school, Hamline University building, and court house; location key in bottom center margin.

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Los Angeles Airport dedication, Los Angeles. June 7, 1930

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A panoramic view of Los Angeles International Airport on the day of its dedication. There are dozens of airplanes parked in rows facing the center of the image, where there is a large, open hangar, decorated with flags and bunting, and a crowd of people in front of it. There is a terminal building on the left and other hangars on the right. An unfinished hangar on the far right has numerous spectators sitting on the roof. The entire foreground is occupied by an empty runway. Writing in white in the bottom center reads "Los Angeles Airport Dedication ; June 7. 1930." Writing in white in the bottom right corner reads "Photo by ; F.M. Huddleston".

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Exterior view of Corrine Griffith Shops, Beverly Drive and Charleville Blvd., Beverly Hills

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View of the "Corinne Griffith Bldg No. 1" on Beverly Drive, one of the "Four Corners" buildings at the intersection with Charleville Boulevard in Beverly Hills, as seen from across the street with automobiles and the storefront for "Fred C. Snell, Building Contractor" visible.

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Views of front exterior of Watt Mines Supply Co. building with sign "Watt, Mines Supply Co., Mining Machinery Ores Tested, Plants Installed Wet or Dry" (2418-2430 Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles)

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A collection of photographs documenting miner Robert S. Watt and family living in the mountains of Los Angeles County at the turn of the 20th century. Views show daily activities and places visited; people hunting and living in cabins; horses; and a few group portraits, such as Los Angeles County Hospital Nurses on a picnic (1905) with names written on back. Other views show ships and a harbor, possibly in San Pedro, California; Los Angeles buildings (Plaza Church and County Courthouse) and oil wells. Mining scenes include the Watt Mines Supply Co. building in Los Angeles; men at an excavation; stamp mill machinery; a man standing at entrance to mine; and mule teams with supplies. There is also a group of photographs of Alaska, showing trappers, roadhouses, scenery, and a miner staking a claim on a river. There are also two U.S. citizenship certificates for Robert S. Watt (1890) and Alexander Barrie (1901), emigrants from Scotland.

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[Exterior view of The Foo & Wing Herb Co.]

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