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Photographs of early Pasadena, California
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Photographs of Pasadena, California
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Consists of nine photographs. photPF 370 contains two cuttings from the Pasadena Star News depicting the intersection of Marengo and Colorado streets, in 1885(?) and 1925(?). These images are also accompanied by annotations and a short handwritten account of land pricing at this intersection in the 1880s. Other subjects include the former Villa Street Reservoir, various floats from the 1900(?) Rose Parade, a chariot race in Tournament Park, and a photo fo an unidentified man by the falls in Eaton Canyon.
photPF 370-379
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Photographs of early western life and California
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The photographs consist of eight early western scenes capturing various unidentified locations of a beach, a coastal cliff, a farmhouse, and a town. Two photographs are labled as Bolder Point mine, both images depict male miners hauling ore with a windlass. Also included is an image of Fort Pemaquid (Maine) on a black-and-white postcard. A majority of the photographs have either "Hardy 1945" or "Blanchard 1945" handwritten on the images indicating that they may have been transferred from these collections.
photPF 3592-3599
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Early photographs of Pasadena and South Pasadena
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Consists of ten photographs, postcards, and snapshots. Subjects include First Methodist Church and First Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, the Raymond Hotel, Wynate, the Sante Fe Station at Meridian and Mission streets, Meridian Street, the historic Opera House and Post Office at Meridian and El Centro streets, and unidentified individuals on a lawn in the Monterey Road area of South Pasadena.
photPF 2450-2459
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Photographs of Pasadena, California
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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
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Photographs of Pasadena, California and environs related to the Heslop Family
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6 card photographs related to the Heslop Family of Pasadena, California, including an exterior view of the Heslop Building, built in 1904, with awnings labeled "Lamanda Store" and "J.M. Brown" in the Lamanda Park neighborhood of Pasadena and a stamp on verso for "W.H. Kindig, Photographer, Wilson Peak Park, Pasadena, California" (photPF 21175); the front exterior and garden, with palm trees and cacti, of the Heslop residence on East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena (photPF 21176); a street view of an unidentified Pasadena residence, with a stamp for "J.C. Carr, Photographer, Pasadena, Cal." (photPF 21177); the chariot races at the Tournament of Roses (photPF 21178); and two views of Pismo Beach (El Pizmo) and the surrounding countryside signed by photographer McCurry (photPF 21179-21180).
photPF 21175-21180
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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.
photPF 740-749