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[Views of Southern California]

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Description: Commercial prints mounted on three album pages depicting landscape views of Southern California including Pasadena and the San Gabriel Mountains, Riverside, Monterey, and Santa Catalina Island, with two images of trees. Five photographs have titles on the negative: "73. Snow scene on the Sierra Madre's from the Raymond"; "52. The Raymond and "Old Baldy" from Carvanza"; "120. Sugar Loaf. Catalina Island"; "82. View from the Raymond Veranda"; "Riverside from [Pa?] Mt."; "778. Looking North From Raymond Hotel. Pasadena. Cal., Parker Photo." One image of a mission building includes the photographer's imprint: "Johnson."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1895.
Call number: photOV 10765
Provenance: Gift of Donald Hibbard Angus, 1997.

Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Souvenir views of Southern California

Visual Materials

4 sets of souvenir views: "Winter Scenes in Los Angeles" and "Southern California: The Land of Fruit and Flowers" in book format and "Miniatures: Catalina Island" and "Souvenir Views: Catalina Island" in card format. The photographs depicting views of Santa Catalina Island and scenes of Los Angeles and vicinity (including central Los Angeles streets and buildings), Pasadena, Sierra Madre Villa, Santa Anita Rancho (E.J. Baldwin residence), Mission San Gabriel, Riverside, San Bernardino, Hotel del Coronado, and San Diego.

photCL 400 volume 30

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Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Scenes in Southern California

Visual Materials

The album is a published collection of souvenir views of Los Angeles, California, and vicinity. Included are views of Figueroa Street; Hollenbeck Home; Adams Street; West Lake Park; Palm Drive; Plaza Church; Broadway and the "old" City Hall; the "old" Court house; Chester Place; a panorama of central Los Angeles; San Gabriel Mission; Marengo Avenue in Pasadena; the Raymond Hotel; the Mount Lowe cable incline railway; the home of Ramona (Rancho Camulos in Ventura County); Avalon harbor and Santa Catalina Island; the Potter Hotel in Santa Barbara; the Santa Barbara Mission; Redlands; the Hotel Coronado in San Diego; and Magnolia Avenue in Riverside.

photCL 400 volume 26

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Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Los Angeles and Southern California

Visual Materials

The album is a published collection of souvenir views of Los Angeles and vicinity. Included are views of Figueroa Street; Hollenbeck Home; Adams Street; West Lake Park; Palm Drive; Plaza Church; Broadway and the "old" City Hall; the "old" Court house; Chester Place; a panorama of central Los Angeles; San Gabriel Mission; Marengo Avenue in Pasadena; the Raymond Hotel; the Mount Lowe cable incline railway; the home of Ramona (Rancho Camulos in Ventura County); Avalon harbor and Santa Catalina Island; the Potter Hotel in Santa Barbara; the Santa Barbara Mission; Redlands; the Hotel Coronado in San Diego; and Magnolia Avenue in Riverside.

photCL 400 volume 25

Step ladder to the top of Sugar Loaf Rock, Catalina Island

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Image of a step ladder installed on Sugar Loaf Rock at Avalon Bay on Santa Catalina Island, California. Signs on the rock read "Climbing on any part of this property is strictly forbidden Santa Catalina Island Co." and above it "Sugar Loaf Rock."

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Photographs of Southern California and islands

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Consists of thirteen photographs and cyanotype prints. Subjects include the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, Riverside county, Camulos Ranch, the 1937 annual Jayhawkers meeting, San Clemente Island goat hunt and Painters Woe Grotto, Point Fermin lighthouse in San Pedro, and Santa Catalina Island. Photographers include Taber, S.F. and L. Bynum.

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Man on rocks and Sugar Loaf Rock in the background, Catalina Island

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Image of a man standing on rocks in Avalon Bay with Sugar Loaf Rock in the background on Santa Catalina Island, California.

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