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Photographs of geologists out in the field in Southern California and elsewhere

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Description: Snapshots of geologists, including Ulysses S. Grant IV, Joe Eaton, Frank B. Tolman, Hubert G. Schenck, and Harry B. Allen on various field trips throughout California, including Coalinga, the Volcan Mountains in San Diego County, the Salton Sea, the Caliente Mountains, Mugo beach, and several unidentified locations. The photographs chiefly include informal portraits of the geologists, as well as shots of them camping, swimming, and doing field work. There are also three photographs of a house at the corner of Sherwood Drive and West Knoll Drive in West Hollywood, California, 1940.
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Production date: approximately 1914-1941
Call number: photPF 20194-20209
Provenance: Gift of Jim Shuttleworth, July 2011.
Dimensions: various sizes, 4 x 5 in. and smaller.
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Photographs of central and southern California

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Consists of six photographs. photPF 910, depicting a scene in San Luis Obispo, is a copy print from corresponding lantern slide number 113 in phoCL 352. photPF 911 shows the Arrowhead Hot Springs Hotel against the mountains. photPF 912, 914, 915 show various locations across Pasadena and includes one stereograph. photPF 917 presents a view of San Pedro Harbor.

photPF 910-919

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Miscellaneous photographs of Southern California and Arizona

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Consists of five photographs, two of which are hand colored. Photographs include Arizonan prickly pear by Elias A. Bonine, saguaro (cereus giganteus) cacti by Carleton Watkins, sunset over the Santa Susana mountains by Robert Charlton, horse racing in Pomona by Frasher's, and a portrait by John Kimball Stevens of William James Mayo (of the Mayo Brothers clinic) addressed to Dr. John Adair.

photPF 750-769

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Photographs of California and Nevada

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Consists of ten photographs and cyanotypes. Nevada subjects include the city and mines of Virginia City. California subjects include the State Capitol Building in Sacramento, the customhouse in Monterey, Donner Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the Azusa Railroad Station, and Azusa's Mina Street. Named photographers in this collection are Guy Giffen and James B. Giffen.

photPF 330-339

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Various photographs of southern California

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Consists of six photographs taken of a one story frame house in Santa Barbara, an unnamed lake (as an advertisement for the Hemet Land & Water Company for fruit lands and lots), Mission San Gabriel, John Muir, a view of Pasadena, the San Gabriel Valley, and the Mount Lowe Observatory from Mount Lowe, and an unidentified pioneer with his burro and dog. Identified photographers include L. N. Cook, C. B. Waite, and E. S. Frost & Son.

photPF 1460-1479

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Press photographs of Latino laborers and field workers in California

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A group of eight press photographs of chiefly Latino agricultural workers, their children, and their living conditions in California, dating between 1958 and 1989. There is one photograph taken near Las Vegas, Nevada in 1959 showing children fetching polluted water from an irrigation ditch; it is captioned "children of jobless migrant workers." The unrelated photographs are credited to the Associated Press, the New York Times, and others, and were published in various newspapers, with detailed captions attached. Subjects include workers' shacks in Mendota, Central Valley; a field worker in Salinas carrying a short-handled hoe, which was later banned in California; tomato picking; a female picker; and a white woman, identified as Mrs. Henry Pennington, comforting her disheveled child in a dusty, rural area.

photPF 26031

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Photographs of southern California

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Consists of ten photographs, displayed on double-sided mounts. Subjects include Santa Monica beach and bath houses, La Placita (also known as La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles or The Church of Our Lady Queen of the Angels), indigenous baskets formerly owned by Major Rust, orange pickers with the Porter Bros. & Co., Rose's Ranche vineyard, Mission San Juan Capistrano, Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena, Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, and the El Molino Viejo (the Old Mill) in San Marino.

photPF 730-739

Photographs of geologists out in the field in Southern California and elsewhere

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