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Photographs of San Marino, California construction and early Los Angeles buildings

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Description: 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?).
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1860s-1928.
Call number: photPF 2330-2339
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.
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California Bank building, 2nd and Broadway, Los Angeles

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A view of South Broadway from 2nd Avenue of the California Bank, the Y.M.C.A. and the Fort Street Methodist Episcopal Church.

photCL Pierce 00059

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Ortiz adobe near Elizabeth Lake, Los Angeles County, and other photographs

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Snapshot photograph of the Miguel Ortiz adobe on Burns Ranch, one mile east of Elizabeth Lake, and two snapshots of the road crossings near Andrade adobe, Los Angeles County (1920s). Other photographs in this folder: five photographs of W. M. Bristol's lodge in Wrightwood (1930s); historical building and bandstand, Ontario, California; and image of Hindu workers picking oranges, Upland Citrus Association (1900s).

photPF 2160-2169

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Catalina Island, early Los Angeles, and other miscellaneous photographs

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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.

photPF 2284-2303

Hope and 8th, Los Angeles. 1905

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A slightly elevated view of Los Angeles at Hope and 8th. The two streets are lined with large houses. The church on the left, with a sign for "Simpson Auditorium" was the Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church, and later became the Third Church of Christ, Scientist. A note written in white in the bottom left corner reads "Pierce 8006".

photCL 470 (007)

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Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad photographs

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Fourteen cabinet card photographs depicting the construction and opening of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad (L.A. & S.G.V.R.R.) in the Los Angeles and Pasadena, California, area in 1885. The images document workers laying the track, railroad bridges (including the wooden trestle bridge across the Arroyo Seco river bed, the exterior and interior of passenger cars, and the Downey Avenue station in Los Angeles, as well as two images related to the opening celebrations of the railroad on September 16, 1885 in Pasadena (photPF 557 and 567). Depicted among the images is the first Pasadena Public Library (photPF 566). Photographs include photographer imprints for E.S. Frost & Son (photPF 556-558, 560-565, 568-569), and J.T. Tuttle & Co. (photPF 559).

photPF 556-569

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Photographs of construction of the California Fruit Growers Exchange Building, 707 West 5th Street, Los Angeles, California

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Chiefly snapshots, with larger 8 x 10 inch views, documenting the interiors and exteriors of the California Fruit Growers Exchange Building (Sunkist Building) during construction. The building was located at Fifth Street and Hope Street on Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles. in 1934 and 1935. Pages 1-9 have images of an older building on the site prior and during demolishing. Pages 7-9 have photographs by photographer Dick Whittington.

photCL 290, photOV 10750-10758

Photographs of San Marino, California construction and early Los Angeles buildings

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