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Ortiz adobe near Elizabeth Lake, Los Angeles County, and other photographs
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Photographs of Lake Vineyard, Shorb and Wilson families, adobe of Santa Clara County, California, and others
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Copy photographs: B.D. Wilson and family at Lake Vineyard, San Gabriel Valley; Kinneloa, the Abbott Kinney bee farm in Sierra Madre; Shorb Post Office, San Gabriel. Copies were made from the Arthur E. Ellis Collection (photCL 188). Original photographs in this folder: oldest adobe building in Santa Clara County, California; photographs of the volunteer firemen with hand pump engine, San Francisco; Cliff House at Seal Rock, San Francisco; five images of the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906.
photPF 2798-2819
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Los Angeles and Mount Washington Railway and other photographs
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Copy photographs of incline railway to Mount Washington in Los Angeles; Mount Washington Hotel; and sign on railway station, approximately 1910s. Also in this folder, three unrelated cabinet card photographs of California missions: man on horse in front of Mission Santa Barbara by Hayward & Muzzall; San Fernando Mission and adobe structures by Carleton Watkins; and vertical view of steps of San Gabriel Mission.
photPF 1034-1040
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Photographs of San Marino, California construction and early Los Angeles buildings
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Snapshot photographs of workers installing a storm drain and other construction on Old Mill Road, San Marino (approximately 1928). Also three copy prints of Main Street, Los Angeles, and a half stereograph of Fort Street Methodist Episcopal Church, central Los Angeles (1880s?).
photPF 2330-2339
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Photographs related to Western frontier life, Native Americans at Fort Custer, and others
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Three copies of photographs related to the C. X. Larrabee family: Larrabee ranch, Madison County, Wisconsin; Fairhaven Hotel, Washington; and Mary Ann Johnson Larrabee at her home in Omro, Wisconsin. The photograph of the Larrabee ranch is a group portrait of several white men and a woman in front of a house, with one Black woman and one Chinese man in cook's apron included. Other photographs: three albumen photographs of Sioux Indians at Fort Custer, Montana receiving clothes rations with cavalry officers nearby; Sioux men and women with tipis and horses (1884); cowboy riding with a buffalo herd by photographer Sumner W. Matteson (1890s-1900s); photographs of prints of covered wagons and a stagecoach being attacked by Native Americans; camels hitched for transportation. Lastly, one unrelated photograph of the Pedro Andrade adobe, Elizabeth Lake, California, built in 1858, later used as a stage station.
photPF 2186-2196
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Photographs of residences in Pasadena, Los Angeles, Orange County, and other images
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Large cabinet card photographs: an unidentified family in front of their house and garden in Los Angeles; the W. M. McFadden family and residence in Placentia, Orange County, California; house and garden in the foothills of Pasadena; a wide dirt road with a median of planted oak trees, Pasadena. Other photographs: Old Mill (El Molino Viejo), now San Marino, California, approximately 1890; horse carriage with float for Fourth of July and interior view of mining works, Virginia City, Nevada; Assembly Hall, Stanford University; schoolchildren in Eaton Canyon(?); Gaviota Pass bridge over stream, Santa Barbara County (1884).
photPF 2272-2283
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Photographs in Los Angeles County and Pasadena
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Consists of fourteen photographs. Ten photographs, including some duplicates, are portraits of Arthur W. Sinclair, Marjorie Rowley Sinclair, Robert S. Sinclair, and Agnes Rowley (labeled as Mrs. H. H. Sinclair). Some were taken at 375 Waverly Drive, Pasadena. One photograph of a 1842-3 portrait of Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, later Mrs. Levi Rowley, is also included. The four remaining items are: one photograph of a portrait of Samuel Sewall; one group photo of a picnic on Mount Wilson with Dr. B. M. Page, Governor Henry Harrison Markham, Benjamin Page, and Frank Daggett in attendance; and two photographs of Robert W. Lull and his bookstore at 1 Chapel St., Newburyport, Massachusetts.
photPF 20-29