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Catalina Island, early Los Angeles, and other miscellaneous photographs

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Description: A mixture of original 19th century photographs and a few copies. Subjects: San Marino palm trees; captured foxes on Mount Lowe; Thomas S. McNair house, Glendora; Redondo Beach Hotel and Bath House, with train at station; Catalina Island, including army barracks; Beverly Hills Hotel and golf group (1922). Photographs of Los Angeles: Bonnie Brae Street (1898) with oil derricks and houses; Central National Bank and City Hall on Broadway St.; trees on Figueroa St.; Pico House; Stearns Block; group portrait, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce; interior of grand lobby of YMCA building; exterior of Ambassador Hotel.
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Production date: approximately 1870s-1922.
Call number: photPF 2284-2303
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Photographs of Los Angeles, Mojave mining, and Santa Catalina Island

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Consists of twelve photographs and postcards. photPF 350-353 depict the aftermath of the 1912 fire in Ocean Park, California. photPF 354 shows a couple in a vacation tent on a hill above Hotel Metropole in Avalon on Santa Catalina Island. photPF 355-356 shows mine buildings of the Mojave mining district in Kern County. And photPF 357-359 depicts areas of early downtown Los Angeles, including a view of the city from Brooklyn Heights by Francis Parker, Iglesia Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, also known as La Placita Church or the Church of our Lady of Los Angeles on Olvera Street, and a view of Bunker Hill from 3rd and Hill Streets.

photPF 350-359

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Cabinet card photographs of San Gabriel Valley, California and Catalina Island tourist party

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Contents: Winery buildings of Sierra Madre Vintage Company; Old Mill cistern; Lamanda Park station of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; men on horses at sugar beet ranch (exact location not identified); banana tree and date palm; burros at hitching post in San Gabriel Mountains(?); men, women and children on horses, posed for a group photograph at Avalon, Catalina Island, in front of Hotel Metropole, with Grand View Hotel in background.

photPF 1048-1062

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Photographs of Santa Catalina Island

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Consists of ten photographs, nine of which are cabinet cards and one of which is a print. Photographs are primarily set in Avalon and feature the Hotel Metropole, the growth of the city, Avalon Bay, local wildlife, and the steamer ship Hermosa.

photPF 940-949

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Photographs of Monterey and other places in 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.

photPF 2304-2329

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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 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

Catalina Island, early Los Angeles, and other miscellaneous photographs

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