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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Self portrait of photographer N. H. Reed, Santa Barbara
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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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Elevated view looking up State Street in Santa Barbara, California, with the "Enterprise" office visible in the left foreground.
photPF 20804
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A collection of 24 commercial photographs of the Santa Barbara Flower Festival of 1895, in Santa Barbara, California. Most of the photographs feature horse-drawn carts or carriages decorated as floats with flowers and other greenery, with a few images of the streets of Santa Barbara decorated for the festival and children picking flowers. The photographer, presumably, is N.H. Reed, whose book of published images, "Souvenir of Santa Barbara Flower Festival. Photo-Gravures" (1895), includes both similar and some of the same images found in this collection.
photCL 18
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Carte-de-visite head-and-shoulders portrait of a young man, possibly Ignacio F. Coronel, though the sitter in the photography has not been positively attributed thus far.
photPF 5832
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This album contains typical commercial photographs of the towns and scenery of California, Oregon and Washington dating from the 1890s. Of note are early views of San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Francisco, Tacoma, and Seattle. There are also views of California missions and coastal landscapes. The Oregon photographs are of scenery only. Photographs of California include San Diego; Casa de Estudillo in Old Town San Diego; Mission San Luis Rey, San Juan Capistrano, and Santa Barbara; Santa Barbara; San Luis Obispo; Confederate general James Longstreet's Los Angeles home; the Bellevue Terrace Hotel; various Los Angeles homes; Pasadena; Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin's Santa Anita ranch; San Francisco city scenes; and wilderness en route to Oregon. Oregon photographs show images of the Columbia River; Mt. Hood; Latourell Falls; Multnomah Falls; and nature scenes. Photographs of Washington state include Tacoma; Green River; Native Americans from an unidentified tribe; Seattle; and Angeline, the daughter of Chief Seattle of the Suquamish tribe. Twenty-six of the pictures in this album were photographed by Isaiah West Taber and twenty-two were photographed by W.H.J. and Company. It may be that William H. Jeffers created those twenty-two photographs, as he was active in California during this time period. Other photographers who contributed to this album include Thomas H. Rutter, Charles B. Talbot, and Boyd & Braas (William F. Boyd and George H. Braas). The initials "E.B.R." and the year 1897 are embossed on the photo album's spine.
photCL 94
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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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Contents: The Santa Barbara Mission Garden with Father Ranerius at the gate (c1875); San Juan Capistrano Mission, corridor ruins with clergyman reading a book while walking.
photPF 3888-3899