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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
View of the coastline and beach in Malibu, California, with horses and workers on the left, grading and building a road along the beach.
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This collection contains 170 photographs related to early California photographers E. J. Hayward and Henry Muzzall and consists chiefly of stereograph views of the Santa Barbara, California, region by Hayward and Muzzall, dating from the early 1870s to the mid 1880s, as well as additional family photographs dating from 1862 to 1894. Within the collection, there are 144 stereograph views: 51 by Hayward; 87 by Hayward & Muzzall; and 6 by additional photographers. The stereos primarily contain views of Santa Barbara streets and buildings, trees and gardens, and landmarks, including depictions of the Santa Barbara Mission, State Street, Hot Springs Canyon, and Chinese residents. The stereos include more than 80 from Hayward & Muzzall's set Views of Santa Barbara and Vicinity and a number from Hayward's Stereoscopic Views of Santa Barbara and Vicinity. There are also 29 card photographs in the collection consisting primarily of portraits of family members and friends, with 15 by Hayward and Muzzall, and 13 by other photographers. Additional credited photographers in the collection, typically represented by one to three images, include Fay Hammond; Santa Barbara photographers Richard Arnold; John Ellis Edwards; William J. Rea; Norman H. Reed; William N. Tuttle; and A. M. Stringfield; as well as Los Angeles photographer James D. Westervelt; Stockton, California, photographer O. Elliot; and San Francisco photographer Carleton Watkins.
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Image of an elevated street view of the factory and laboratory buildings of the Powers and Weightman chemical manufacturing company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with railroad tracks, trains, horse-drawn wagons, crates, barrels, workers, and pedestrians in the foreground. The main building is at the corner of Ninth St.
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Studio portrait of a young couple, with handwritten note in pencil on the verso identifying the man as: "Snow Hank, mail carrier Wells Fargo."
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9 stereographic photographs consisting chiefly of images of the California missions: No. 29, "View under the Archway of Mission Aqueduct"; no. 88, "San Gabriel Mission"; [no. 89, San Miguel Mission]; [no. 90, Santa Inez Mission]; [no. 91, Interior of Santa Barbara Mission]; [no. 92, Padres at mission]; [no. 93, Mission bells]; [no. 94, La Purisima Conception Mission]; [no. 95, view of a large house].
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Elevated view of the dirt road, horse-drawn wagons, and storefronts along the Calle de los Negros (also known as "Nigger Alley") in Old Chinatown in Los Angeles, California, with a sign for "J. Kennedy" in the shape of a horseshoe at right.
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