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Photographs of Mission San Diego and old Los Angeles portraits

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Description: Consists of six photographs. Three prints are various views of the Mission San Diego El Campanario, church, and gardens by unidentified photographers. photPF 184 had previously accompanied Alice Harriman's "The Bells of El Camino Real" whose call number is mssHM 66767. The three remaining photographs are one copy print of the city of San Diego, one cabinet card of a Mexican laborer at in an adobe doorway, presumably at Rancho Camulos by Charles F. Lummis, and one cabinet photograph of an unidentified Chinese women posed in a photographer studio by Golsh, Plaza Photograph Gallery.
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Production date: approximately 1860-1943.
Call number: photPF 184-189
Provenance: Acquired from various sources including Mrs. C. W. Hough and Rubel, 1932-1943.

Photographs of San Diego, Santa Barbara, and El Paso, Texas

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Nine cabinet card photographs. Subjects in San Diego County: San Diego Harbor; Hotel Del Coronado; and buildings and orchards of S. M. Marshall ranch in El Cajon. Four cabinet cards by Hayward & Muzzall of the bay, beach, and town of Santa Barbara as seen from the wharf. Santa Barbara Mission is in the distance. One photograph of adobes on an El Paso, Texas street, with signs in Spanish.

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Photographs of Los Angeles Old Chinatown, First Street Bridge, and an unidentified trestle bridge

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Three cabinet photographs of early Los Angeles, California, most likely taken in the1880s. The first is an elevated view of Calle de Los Negros in Old Chinatown by photographer F. G. Schumacher, showing a dirt road, adobe buildings, horse-drawn wagons, and a few people. The second photograph is marked in ink "First St. Bridge," and shows a partially washed-out wooden bridge over the flooded Los Angeles River. A man on horseback and a photographer with a large box camera are on the shore. The third cabinet photograph is of an unidentified railroad trestle bridge spanning a canyon or river.

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Old stairway, Mission San Gabriel

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Image of a group of children standing next to an old stairway that leads to the choir loft at the Mission San Gabriel, in San Gabriel, California. An El Camino Real bell historical marker can be seen at right edge of image.

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Old Mission San Louis [sic] Rey, San Diego Co

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View of the front facade of the Mission San Luis Rey Mission in San Diego County, California.

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Long Island Railroad Company; Los Angeles and San Diego Beach Railway

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Includes train(s): East Ender; The Metropolitan. Includes photographs. Includes (selected items): broadside. "Los Angeles and San Diego Beach Ry. - La Jolla." Photograph of a McKeen car (identified as built by Union Pacific). San Diego to La Jolla in 45 minutes; "The High Iron to La Jolla," by R.P. Middlebrook. San Diego Historical Society. (1961); copy of photograph of a retired McKeen railcar. Most items for Long Island Railroad. Three items only for LA&SDBR.

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[Old Mission Bells, (Old Town), San Diego, Cal.]

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Two albums containing ninety-seven photographs, chiefly by amateur photographer S. L. Walkley, of buildings and landscapes in Los Angeles County and San Diego County, California, in 1888. These professional-quality views by Walkley depict newly constructed buildings, street scenes, and the natural landscape, including the flora. These volumes may have been Walkley's own albums as they contain photographs of the construction and finished exterior of his residence on St. John Street in Pasadena, California. The albums include photographs of houses, hotels, streets, and buildings in Pasadena, California and the surrounding towns of Alhambra, San Gabriel, Whittier, and others as well as views of the Arroyo Seco, Little Santa Anita Canyon, Eaton Canyon, and the path to Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel Mountain area. There are photographs of downtown Los Angeles; Hotel del Coronado and Old Town San Diego in San Diego County; and Avalon and Avalon Harbor on Santa Catalina Island. Several photographs show African American trainers with camels and elephants as well as an open circus wagon containing lions (volume 1, items 37-40) These scenes may be associated with the Sells Brothers Circus, which visited Los Angeles in October 1888 (See also volume 2, item 31). There is one photograph of a train labeled "Tia Juana & N.C. & O. Rwy. Train" (volume 1, item 30), presumably referring to the National City & Otay Railroad, a subsidiary of the Santa Fe Railroad, formed in 1886, which connected downtown San Diego with the Sweetwater Dam (San Diego County), La Presa (San Diego County), and Tijuana (Mexico). Two photographs bear the imprint of C.W. Herr and depict street scenes in Provo, Utah and Ogden, Utah (volume 1, items 35 and 36).

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