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Photographs of California Petroleum and Asphalt Company plant, Carpinteria
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Photographs of Fort Ross structures and Carpinteria petroleum mine
Visual Materials
Photographs of Fort Ross, California church, hotel and Russian blockhouse in 1903, and in 1906 after damage from earthquake. Also photographs of men in the mine of the California Petroleum and Asphalt Company, Carpinteria, California.
photPF 1023-1033
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Miscellaneous photographs of California and other places
Visual Materials
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.
photPF 740-749
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California Petroleum and Asphalt Company: blueprints and working drawings
Manuscripts
The collection consists of 450 items from 1875 to 1929, and includes letters, manuscripts, business documents, and 32 maps and drawings related to the business interests of James Filmore Crank and the development of Los Angeles County. Of particular note is the collection's focus on city and interurban railways, including the Los Angeles Cable Railway Co., Pacific Railway Co., Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad Co., and Los Angeles Development Co. There are also materials related to the wine industry (Sierra Madre Vintage Co. and Lamanda Park, California), the Fair Oaks Ranch in Pasadena, the Azusa Land and Water Co., and education in California private schools during the late nineteenth century. Correspondents in the collection include: John Dustin Bicknell, Albert Filmore Crank, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Joseph H. Hoadley, Collis Potter Huntington, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Edwin Burritt Smith.
mssCrank
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Photographs of Siemens hydroelectric plants in Mexico
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A group of seven 8 x 10-inch photographs of the first hydroelectric power plants built in Mexico in the early 20th century. Siemens & Halske were contracted to develop and build the electrical power projects. The captioned and dated photographs depict the Tenango dam on the Necaxa River, 1916, with worker's housing and buildings; power lines; a substation and plant in Pachuca; and the Nonoalco steam plant, 1929. One interior view of a power plant includes two Mexican workers.
photPF 26029
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Standard Felt Company, Alhambra, California, photographs
Visual Materials
A group of 76 photographs, 1910s to 1930s, of the Standard Felt Company, 29-115 Palm Avenue, Alhambra, California. Images depict buildings, workers, and the felt manufacturing process, including workers picking through bales of wool and using heavy machinery. Some images are of women workers, and products made by the company. A two-page typed history of the company by an unknown author accompanies the collection. Also includes two boxes of glass plate negatives.
photCL 241
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Photographs of Pasadena, California
Visual Materials
Consists of ten photographs, including one cyanotype print. Subjects include views of Carmelita (the residence of Mrs. Carr) including one by C. E. Watkins, the garden at Glen Annie, an oak tree in the center of Orange Grove Ave., an oak tree in the center of Orange Grove and Columbia Avenues, a view of early Marengo Avenue towards the Raymond Hotel, the Allen Tennis Court with Annie Allen, Bell's House, The Arroyo Vista, and La Casa Grande Hotel.
photPF 380-389