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Interior and exterior view of the Compton Grain and Milling Company
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Views of the Pío Pico adobe and ranch
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Three card photographs depict the El Ranchito adobe and ranch property of Pío Pico in Whittier, California, with two showing the exteriors of adobe ranch buildings with Hispanic men, women, and children standing in front, and one depicting the exterior of the two-story adobe house with Pío Pico standing on a balcony with Pasadena naturalist Jeanne Carr. The photographs are by Pasadena photographers Jarvis (photPF 590) and E.A. Bonine (photPF 591-592).
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Photographs of Aimee Semple McPherson and her ministry
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Consists of head-and-shoulder vignette portraits of Los-Angeles based evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and her husband David Hutton (photPF 24910); two photographic postcards of her residence in Lake Elsinore, California (photPF 24911-24912); a group portrait of church members standing in front of the San Pedro Four Square Lighthouse Church in 1929 (photPF 24913); an exterior view of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, with a sign "The Open Book Munhall Revival Campaign" on the building (photpF 24914); a photographic postcard of "Brother Arthur" (Joseph W. Arthur, co-pastor of the Angelus Temple) (photPF 24915); and a printed "Season's Greetings" card from McPherson (photPF 24916).
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24 mules on Puente grain field
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[Aftermath of the Long Beach earthquake in Long Beach and Compton, California]
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5 black-and-white snapshots documenting the wreckage and destruction to various buildings caused by the Long Beach earthquake of 1933. Scenes include debris in the streets of Long Beach; a view of U.S. Marines walking through a Long Beach street; a destroyed Long Beach church; a view from the street of a building in Compton with the exterior wall destroyed and interior rooms visible; and the rubble before the Haigh Drug Co. store in Compton.
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Views of Pasadena, California, and vicinity
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Chiefly card photographs of views, buildings, and sights in the Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley region of Southern California in the late 19th century. Consists of images of various Pasadena area landscapes, buildings including commercial storefronts, churches, and residences. Among the buildings depicted are the Central School House (photPF 527), the Grand Pasadena Opera House (photPF 530), the Congregational Church (photPF 519), the first Methodist Church building (photPF 505), the first Presbyterian Church, the storefront of the Jarvis's photography gallery (photPF 540) in Pasadena, and the buildings of the Sierra Madre Vintage Co. winery in Lamanda Park, including one showing a locomotive and passenger cars of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad (photPF 539 and 549); residences include those of William J. Barkus (photPF 510), Albert Brigden (photPF 537) and Moritz Rosenbaum (photPF 514) in Pasadena, J.R. Dobbins in San Gabriel (photPF 509), and General George Stoneman on his Los Robles estate (photPF 504) and B.D. Wilson on his Lake Vineyard Estate (photPF 507-508), both in what is now San Marino. Individuals include George W. Peck (photPF 529) General George Stoneman (photPF 504), B.D. Wilson and James De Barth Shorb (photPF 507), all with their families. Additionally, there are photographs of a welcome arch in honor of the visit of United States President Benjamin Harrison in 1891 (photPF 544), two flower displays from the first flower show in the Wooster Block (photPF 523 and 542), fruit drying (photPF 524), a Pasadena Ostrich Farm (photPF 528), a tennis match (photPF 555), and a photograph of the Hotel Redondo, railroad train, and beach in Redondo Beach, California (photPF 502). There are also two photographs of architectural drawings of a planned YMCA building (photPF 521) and the Pasadena Presbyterian Church (photPF 533). Identified photographers include Elias A. Bonine (photPF 522), E.S. Frost & Son (photPF 539, 547, 551-552), William Henry Hill (photPF 502), Jarvis' Gallery (photPF 512ac-c-514, 519-521, 523-531, 533, 538, 550), C. McMurtrey (photPF 555), T.G. Norton (photPF 555), J.T. Tuttle (photPF 549), and Carleton E. Watkins (photPF 501, 503-509). Primarily cabinet cards with a few stereographs.
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