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Photographs of a residence at 511 Virgil Avenue, Los Angeles
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[Charles Z. and Ethel Phoebe Bailey residence and photographic studio]
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Scenes in Chinatown, Los Angeles
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A composite photograph of six street scenes in Old Chinatown in Los Angeles, California, showing Chinese men and women in traditional clothing walking in the street, as well as one image of a man standing amid laundry.
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J.J. Jenkins City Dye Works, Los Angeles
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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).
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Los Angeles - Streets - Western Avenue
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approx. 10 items: several pieces of promotional material published in 1924 in preparation for the opening of Western Avenue (early in 1925) and the touting of the street as a scenic drive ; article copy, San Pedro News-Pilot, 6/21/1958, "Western Avenue bypass link completion, opening predicted before end of year" ; series of Metro stories from July and August, 1985, on the history and development of Western Ave.
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[East Hollywood, California, from Olive Hill]
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A panoramic photographic with a bird's eye view of rural East Hollywood, California, and the Hollywood Hills as seen from Olive Hill, with houses scattered across the landscape and mountains in the background.
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