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Photographs along California coast

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Description: Consists of eleven photographs. Subjects include the de la Guerra adobe in Santa Barbara; the U.S. Navy destroyer flotilla off Point Arguello; a view of the Eagle Rock, 1906; Helena Modjeska's home in Santiago Canyon; San Diego harbor; and the Rancho Guajome Adobe in San Diego.
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Production date: approximately 1870s-1920s.
Call number: photPF 240-249
Provenance: Acquired from various sources, 1936-1943.
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Miscellaenous photographs in Oregon and California

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Consists of eleven photographs, includuing copy prints, photoprints, and mounted photographs. Most have inscriptions on the verso. photPF 2431-2434 depicted construction and staff at Fort Dalles, Oregon. photPF 2435 is a portrait of Judge George Henry Williams, the United States Attorney General under President Ulysses S. Grant and third chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. photPF 2436 is a photogrpah of a minature portrait of Presley Neville O'Bannon of the United States Marine Corps, reknown for his participation in the First Barbary War and the Battle of Derna, Libya. photPF 2437 is a cabinet card of the Shorb family home which formerly sat the grounds of the Huntington estate in San Marino; notes on the verso indicate when the structure was built and remodeled. A second photograph labeled photPF 2437 is of Guajome Ranch (Coutt's Ranch) in San Diego County. photPF 2438 is a copy print of the Moneyan Institute of San Gabriel, designed by William Money who was widely regarded as Los Angeles' first cult leader. photPF 2439 is a portrait of Jules Simoneau, a close friend of Robert Louis Stevenson. photPF 2440 is a photograph of the first casting of the "Mildred and William Dean Howells" bronze relief which currently sits in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (NPG.65.65). An inscription in Mildred's hand is written on the verso, and it is accompanied by a note from Mildred addressed to Mr. Schad.

photPF 2431-2440

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Olive Percival photograph collection

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This photograph collection contains sixty-nine cyanotype with a few sepia-tone and gelatin silver prints annotated with titles and descriptions attributed to Olive Percival (1869-1945). The subjects include views of the San Fernando, San Juan Capistrano, San Luis Obispo, and San Luis Rey missions. As well as various southern California landmarks (La Jolla, Ventura Jail, Guajome Ranch) and Los Angeles historical locations and events (Francisco Avila Adobe, Moneyan Institute Octoganol Adobe, Our Lady Queen of the Angels "La Placita," Old St. Charles Hotel, William Wolfskill Adobe, La Fiesta de Los Angeles parade). A number of these images share titles with the Olive Percival Collection of Photographs.

photPF 3714-3769

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California coast [photograph]

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This collection includes lantern slides of eleven California missions, all of which are portrayed through artists' renderings or through photographs. The missions are shown in states of past affluence and of then present disrepair. The slides are meant to accompany a slideshow lecture given by Mrs. Lou K. Ross to educate Los Angeles club groups about the condition of the missions in the 1920s.

photCL 516

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Photograph Album of California and the Pacific Coast

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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 a portrait of Angeline, 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 album spine is embossed with the title "California and Pacific Coast" and the photographs are mostly mounted double-sided. The initials of an unknown individual, "E.B.R.", and the year 1897 are also embossed on the album's spine.

photCL 94

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Photographs of Southern California and islands

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Consists of thirteen photographs and cyanotype prints. Subjects include the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, Riverside county, Camulos Ranch, the 1937 annual Jayhawkers meeting, San Clemente Island goat hunt and Painters Woe Grotto, Point Fermin lighthouse in San Pedro, and Santa Catalina Island. Photographers include Taber, S.F. and L. Bynum.

photPF 250-259

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Photographs of California missions

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Consists of ten photographs, with exterior and interior views of California missions including Mission San Diego, Mission San Buenaventura, Mission Santa Barbara, Mission Dolores (also known as Mission San Francisco de Asís), Mission Santa Ines, Mission San Miguel, and Mission San Fernando.

photPF 310-319

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