Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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First California Jail. Built in 1832
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Front facade of the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, California.
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Original photographs with a few copies. Photographs of old jail, Hotel Del Monte, and customs house in Monterey, California; Los Angeles' Plaza Church, plaza and adjacent adobes (1882); Hotel del Coronado dock and ferry house; group portrait of members of Southern California Editorial Association at Hotel del Coronado (1889); Camulos Ranch; group portrait of Stanford University Geological Society (1908); bird's-eye-view of town of Marysville, Yuba County (1880?); souvenir mini photographs of Sequoia National Park; ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano; fisherman at Mirror Lake, Yosemite.
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This photograph collection contains sixty-nine cyanotype with a few sepia-tone and gelatin silver prints annotated with titles and descriptions attributed to Olive Percival (1869-1945). The subjects include views of the San Fernando, San Juan Capistrano, San Luis Obispo, and San Luis Rey missions. As well as various southern California landmarks (La Jolla, Ventura Jail, Guajome Ranch) and Los Angeles historical locations and events (Francisco Avila Adobe, Moneyan Institute Octoganol Adobe, Our Lady Queen of the Angels "La Placita," Old St. Charles Hotel, William Wolfskill Adobe, La Fiesta de Los Angeles parade). A number of these images share titles with the Olive Percival Collection of Photographs.
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View of a wooden building identified as a former jail in Wilmington, California.
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Elevated view looking east down Franklin Street in the foreground in downtown Los Angeles, California, with a two-story brick building with the sign "Furniture & Bedding" on Spring Street at far left and the old Los Angeles Courthouse clock tower at the intersection of Court Street and Main Street visible behind it. The first Los Angeles city jail is the square brick building in a courtyard surrounded by a fence at center at the intersection of Spring Street and Franklin Street, with the first Los Angeles City Hill, a one-story adobe building bordering the jail courtyard to the east on Spring Street.
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Exterior view of front of the Mission San Carlos Borromeo in Carmel, California.
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