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    James Lancaster, L.A. Bicycle Club

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    Photograph of bicyclist James Lancaster and his assistant with high wheel bicycle in front of a painted backdrop.

    photCL Pierce 10,080

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    Photograph of a young blind Mexican gentleman

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    An oval portrait photograph of a young, presumably blind, gentleman wearing a suit and dark glasses. The photograph was taken by M. Gonzalez in Mexico City. Includes an ink inscription in Spanish on the mount.

    photPF 26017

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    Miscellaneous photographs of California and other places

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    Consists of six items including photographs, cyanotypes, one postcard, and one packet of 12 small prints. photPF 740 is a photograph of the El Molino Viejo; photPF 741 is a photograph of Lake Memphremagog, Vermont; photPF 742 is a postcard of the birthplace of Nathan Hale; photPF 747 is a packet containing 12 small views of the damage caused by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake; photPF 748-749 are two still-life cyanotypes taken at the laboratory of asphalt paving plant at Carpenteria, depicting a skull with a hat (labeled "the prof") and a pair of old miner shoes.

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    Souvenir portrait of men in bathing suits, made at Venice, California

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    Souvenir portrait made in a photograph studio. Three men wearing bathing suits are seated in front of a painted backdrop of the Dance Hall and amusement rides on the pier at Venice, California. The bathing suits have a "V" in a circle on the front.

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    Photographs of Lake Elsinore and other California locations

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    Four cabinet card photographs of Lake Elsinore: "Chaney's first house in Warm Spring Valley"; a small town on the lake (1884); "first house at Elsinore" with a well; scenic view of lake. Another card photograph in this folder: First Baptist Church of San Francisco by I. W. Taber. See also a daguerreotype of this image: photDAG 61. Other photographs are the following: images of drawings of San Bernardino in the 1850s; a photographic postcard of Point Hueneme Lighthouse (1943); copy photograph of Los Angeles Plaza and surrounding buildings by Francis Parker (approximately 1871-1875).

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    Anastacio Cardenas

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    Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) Photographer: Luik, F. ; Messikomer, J. Carte-de-visite portrait of Anastacio Cardenas, a dwarf, with a painted studio backdrop of adobe buildings on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, with handwritten notes on verso: "Spanish Tom Thumb 1863" and "Anastacio Cardenas, came to LA from Sonora Mexico, ca. 1867." With stamp on verso: "F. Luik, & J. Messikomer (?)"

    photPF 25302