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Photographs of Southern California beaches and harbors

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Description: Cabinet card photographs of: San Pedro Harbor with railcars of coal and lumber on dock; swimmers at Catalina Island; Long Beach stairs and bluff; Santa Monica bathhouses; and horsecarts at the Santa Barbara Floral Festival, 1893. View of bay at Avalon, Catalina Island shows a boat with a sign reading "Hardware..." Handwriting on verso: "The Hardware boat in the distance was a speakeasy. The Banning family allowed no liquor on the island and the 3-mile limi was not yet invented."
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Production date: approximately 1880s-1890s.
Call number: photPF 640-649
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.
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Photographs of southern California

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Consists of ten photographs, displayed on double-sided mounts. Subjects include Santa Monica beach and bath houses, La Placita (also known as La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles or The Church of Our Lady Queen of the Angels), indigenous baskets formerly owned by Major Rust, orange pickers with the Porter Bros. & Co., Rose's Ranche vineyard, Mission San Juan Capistrano, Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena, Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, and the El Molino Viejo (the Old Mill) in San Marino.

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Photographs of Southern California and islands

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Consists of thirteen photographs and cyanotype prints. Subjects include the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, Riverside county, Camulos Ranch, the 1937 annual Jayhawkers meeting, San Clemente Island goat hunt and Painters Woe Grotto, Point Fermin lighthouse in San Pedro, and Santa Catalina Island. Photographers include Taber, S.F. and L. Bynum.

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Avalon harbor, Santa Catalina Island. 1904

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A panoramic view of the harbor at Avalon, on Santa Catalina Island. The photograph was taken from somewhere along the northwestern shore of the bay, with the city of Avalon on the far right. There is a boat with a striped canopy and seven or eight people on it being rowed across the center of the image. There are also a few people standing or sitting on the shore. There are several unoccupied small boats on the water, as well as a three mast sailing ship, and few sailboats with their sails up. Writing in white at the bottom reads "Avalon Bay, Catalina. ; 1904."

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Catalina Island tour boat returning to Los Angeles Harbor, San Pedro Bay

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A ferry boat carrying passengers back from Catalina Island entering the Los Angeles Harbor in San Pedro, California. A large ship and other boats are at dock in the background.

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Collection of Southern California and Mexico Photographs

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This collection contains photographs by commercial photographers, dated ca. 1890-1910, illustrating recreation and scenery on Catalina Island, a hotel and public parks in Southern California, and various historical sites and street scenes in Mexico City. Many of the photographs include tourists and local residents, such as bathers on Catalina Island, and people in parks and towns. Photographs of Catalina Island include views of Avalon, Sugarloaf Point, sailboats and glass-bottom boats, steamships, bathers at the beach, a tent city, and sailors of the steamship the "San Diego". California views include Missions San Gabriel, San Fernando, and San Juan Capistrano; the Coronado Hotel in San Diego; Central Park, St. James Park, and Hollenbeck Park (all based in Los Angeles); Adams Street in Los Angeles; the Shakespearean actress Helena [Madame] Modjeska's home in Orange County; and an interior view of Columbia Savings Bank's then president Aaron M. Ozum's residence at 3131 Figueroa Street, Los Angeles. Photographs of Mexico depict the Cathedral de Mexico, Paseo de la Reforma, interiors and exteriors of Castillo de Chapultepec, Hotel Iturbide, Mercado Volador, Canal de la Viga, the daily lives of Mexican citizens, the Zócalo (now known as the Plaza de la Constitución), and various street scenes. There are 12 miscellaneous photographs (102-114), in small square or circular format, mounted on board, that appear to be among the oldest here. They show cargo ships at shipping docks (one identified "McNab & Smith Draying") possibly in San Francisco, a steamship, and gardens. C. B. Waite photographed 19 of the 114 prints in this collection. Other photographers who contributed to this collection are Charles F. Ironmonger, Frank L. Park, Percy Cox and R. J. Carmichael, J. C. Hatton Noren F. Swenson, and the Special View Company. Two photographers were identified on some photographs only by their surnames: Graham and Scott.

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Avalon, Catalina Island

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Image of the beach in Avalon Bay on Santa Catalina Island, California, as seen from a boat on the water, with people on the pier across from the Metropole Hotel at center with shops and boats visible.

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