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Laura Volkerding panoramic photograph of Richmond Bridge, industrial works, and environs, California
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A large panoramic photograph of the original Hotel Green building and adjacent park in Pasadena, before the Castle Green annex building and bridge were constructed. In the foreground, people are sitting in a horse-drawn carriage decorated with flowers, possibly for the annual Rose Parade. There are also men and women in Victorian dress standing in front of the hotel or on the pathways in the park, including a man with a bicycle. The bottom right corner is stamped with the photographers' names, Stiffler & Gill of Los Angeles. Approximate date devised by cataloger; photographers Frank M. Stiffler and R. B. Gill only appear as partners in the 1896 Los Angeles City Directory.
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A panoramic photograph documenting about 100 agricultural workers, including men, women, and children, of an unidentified farm in Orange County, California, taken between approximately 1900 and 1920. The photograph features mostly white workers, but there are several Latino men, possibly Mexican migrant workers, and about fifteen women and girls. Some workers are holding tools or equipment, wearing slings for picking fruit, or handling horses. Behind the two rows of people are stacks of wooden crates labeled "F Co.," along with a wagon of hay and a two-story wooden building. The photograph is not captioned, but has a small photographer's label crediting commercial photographer F. D. Leonard of Santa Ana, California.
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This collection consists of a disbound album compiled by Lucius "Paul" Soberanes (1882-1959) of primarily amateur snapshots of 19th century California adobes taken during the 1930s and 1940s, with typewritten captions added by Soberanes in the 1950s. Soberanes, a descendant of early Spanish landholders in California, put much of his energy into personally photographing adobes in Northern California for his album; not only did he travel through Monterey County, but also Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, Sonoma, Solano, and Ventura Counties. He also added a small number of professional photographs by L.A. Sanchez and E.R. Jackson and a photograph of a drawing by E.A. Burbank into the album. Some of the adobes are shown to be in disrepair while others had been restored by the then adobes' owners, state agencies, historical societies, or service organizations. Of the Monterey adobes featured, the best known include Casa Soberanes (House of the Blue Gate), the Cooper-Molera Adobe, Alvarado Adobe, Casa Gutierrez, Casa de la Torre, and Casa Amesti. Various adobes in Monterey County were held by the Soberanes family, including the Alta Vista Adobe, and the Rancho El Alisal and Rancho Ex-Mission Soledad properties. Other prominent adobes in Northern California are the Vicente Martinez Adobe, Petaluma Adobe, Castro Adobe, and Dana Adobe. There are some photographs of Southern California adobes, especially in Santa Barbara and San Diego; adobes from these areas include the Gonzalez House, Casa de Bandini, Casa de Estudillo, and Rancho Camulos. Soberanes, his wife, and his children appear posing on the adobe grounds in some of the photographs. Photograph captions in the list of photographs are transcribed exactly as they appear in the album. The dates mentioned most often refer to an adobe's construction date; photographs are printed later. Photographs from pages 119, 121, and 144 are missing from the album. In addition to the prints, there are 2 postcards (Items 155-156), a photomechanical print (page 151), and one cyanotype (page 137).
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Photographs are by Harold Hannibal, a geologist and paleontologist who co-wrote a paper with Arnold called "The Marine Tertiary Stratigraphy of the North Pacific Coast of America," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1913. California Predominately views and descriptions of topography and geological features, with only two views of oil wells in Tapo Canyon, Simi Valley. At site are "Messrs. Wheat, DeFreest, Koeberle and Moore" examining rock (No. 188). Locations: Calaveras Valley; Carmel; Catalina Island; Contra Costa County; Corral Hollow; Crescent City; Dixieland; Eel River; Garbeville; Imperial Valley; Kettleman Hills; Marysville Buttes; Merced Falls; Monterey Bay; Mt. Diablo; Oroville; San Benito-Monterey County; San Bruno; San Diego; San Pedro Hills; Simi Valley. Others of note: No. 120: Oil wharf with pipeline, Monterey. No. 178-179: Chinese laborers at Calexico, Ca., waiting for train to take them to work in cotton fields at Mexicali, Baja. No. 209: Howard Hannibal standing next to "best fossil locality in the Monterey - 27-mile drive between Pebble Beach Lodge and Carmel." New Mexico/Texas border Topography and vegetation views, showing mountains and springs, sandstone, dry river beds. One view of oil well in Rocky Arroyo, Carlsbad, New Mexico. Oregon, Washington, Vancouver Island and Sooke Harbor, British Columbia Many views and descriptions of coastal topography, beaches and cliffs, particularly in the Olympic Peninsula. Others of note: No. 4-5: J. M. McDonald and Harold Hannibal at Oak Bay. No. 143-146: Native Americans (described as "Siwashes," most likely Coast Salish or Quinault) catching fish on beach at Taholah.
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A presentation album with 77 photographs taken along the Pacific Electric Railway lines in Southern California, especially in Los Angeles County and Orange County. The images primarily document street scenes, train stations, and local attractions along the railway lines. Includes the Whittier Line; La Habra Line; Santa Ana-Huntington Beach line; Glendale Line; Pasadena Line; Monrovia Line; Glendora; Covina Line; El Monte; San Gabriel Line; Sierra Madre Line; and many of the Mount Lowe Division. Some of the locations shown are Echo Mountain and Mount Lowe, Rubio Canyon, Covina, and Sierra Madre. Local businesses and attractions that are featured include Echo Park in Los Angeles; the Shorb Ranch in San Marino; Cawston Ostrich Farm in South Pasadena; Casa Verdugo in Glendale; and Busch Gardens in Pasadena. More than a third of the images were taken in and around Mount Lowe, showing the observatory, inclined railway, circular bridge, granite gate, search light, and Ye Alpine Tavern. Two photographs show Mount Lowe with snow and another shows the smoke of a brush fire. There is a view of the moon taken through the Mount Lowe telescope, and a photograph of Dr. Edgar Lucien Larkin, director of the Mount Lowe Observatory, in the observatory room. There are several photographs of orange groves taken from various locations along the railway.
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