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Indigenous person riding a horse postcard

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Description: Please note that this collection contains historical images and language that library users may find harmful, offensive, or inappropriate.The sepia-toned photographic postcard depicts what appears to be an Indigenous female elder riding astride on a white horse with bridle, saddle, and stirrups. Her clothing appears light colored and a matching cap covering her head worn low near to her eyes. She is exiting the stream in the portrait with trees and a mountain behind her. Fencing runs across the waterway indicating a property boundary. An annotation in ink along the border of the photograph titled and dated the image, "An old Indian Squaw, Montana, Aug. 1917." On the verso written in pencil, "Hardy 1945."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1917.
Call number: photPF 3840
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.

Katharine Beecher Stetson on horse in front of Masters barn

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Katherine Beecher Stetson, as a little girl, wearing a light dress and bonnet, sits astride a horse in front of the long, one-story barn building of Willis Masters in Pasadena, California.

photPF 23720

Katharine Beecher Stetson on front lawn of Masters place

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Katherine Beecher Stetson, as a little girl, sits astride a donkey in an open, landscaped area on the property of Willis Masters in Pasadena, California. A windmill stands in the background to the right.

photPF 23721

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San Diego Flume Co. trestle

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The sepia-toned photograph contains an annotated description on the recto, "1284 Ft. Trestle SD Flume." Also on verso in ink, "It would take a week to fully descend the magnificent flume 40 miles long and bringing pure snow--water from the heights of the Cuyamaca Mountains to San Diego. Cost $20,000.00 per mile." Also added in pencil, "San Diego County, Flume carrying water to city from Cuyamaca Mts. Hardy 1945." The depiction is a view of the trestle with mountains in the distance among the natural terrain of San Diego.

photPF 3828

Residence in the San Gabriel Valley

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The two-story residence of Nathaniel C. Carter on the Willow Dale estate in San Gabriel (now San Marino, California), with porch, sits on a gentle slope with a fenced-in garden in front. To the left, a horse-drawn carriage and a woman astride another horse, and a vineyard is planted in the foreground.

photPF 796

Winery, Sierra Madre Vintage Co

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Group of low, wood buildings and a water tank at the Sierra Madre Vintage Company winery in Lamanda Park (now part of Pasadena, California), with the San Gabriel Mountains and the Sierra Madre Villa Hotel faintly visible at center right in the background. A locomotive engine and passenger train are sitting on the track between buildings. A young boy and a woman sit astride horses in the foreground. Men, woman, and horse-drawn carriages are gathered among the buildings.

photPF 549

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Marmon Coupe automobile and horses at Hester's Riding Academy

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The Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 5157 glass plate negatives, film negatives, and panoramic negatives, 1889-1949, that depict commercial, residential and landscape sites in and around Pasadena and Southern California. The images provide a look at the commercial, residential and social development of Pasadena and surrounding areas during the early years of the twentieth century. The collection is especially rich in images of residential architecture in Pasadena, Altadena, and San Marino; images of Lake Tahoe; depictions of, and activities at, the Raymond, Maryland, and Huntington Hotels in Pasadena; and the commercial, social and cultural landscapes of Pasadena. The collection also provides, through its breadth and depth of subject matter, an example of the career activities of a commercial photographer in Southern California in the early years of the twentieth century.

photCL 402

Indigenous person riding a horse postcard

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