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Photographs of southern California

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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1860-1943.
Call number: photPF 730-739
Provenance: Acquired from Prinz, 1943.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Photographs of Los Angeles, Mojave mining, and Santa Catalina Island

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Consists of twelve photographs and postcards. photPF 350-353 depict the aftermath of the 1912 fire in Ocean Park, California. photPF 354 shows a couple in a vacation tent on a hill above Hotel Metropole in Avalon on Santa Catalina Island. photPF 355-356 shows mine buildings of the Mojave mining district in Kern County. And photPF 357-359 depicts areas of early downtown Los Angeles, including a view of the city from Brooklyn Heights by Francis Parker, Iglesia Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, also known as La Placita Church or the Church of our Lady of Los Angeles on Olvera Street, and a view of Bunker Hill from 3rd and Hill Streets.

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Pictorialist Photographs of California Missions by Louis Fleckenstein

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This disbound album contains 33 pictorial photographs of California mission ruins taken by photographer Louis Fleckenstein around 1930, including Missions San Carlos Borromeo, San Francisco Solano, San Gabriel Arcangel, San Juan Capistrano, San Jose, La Purísima Concepción, San Luis Obispo, San Miguel Arcangel, Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, San Antonio de Pádua, San Buenaventura, San Fernando Rey, San Francisco de Asís, San Juan Bautista, San Luis Rey, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, San Diego, and Santa Inés. Churches and missions that are also shown are Plaza Church (also known as the Church of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels), the Royal Presidio Chapel (also known as San Carlos Cathedral), and San Antonio de Pala Asistencia. Item titles transcribed from penciled captions below photographs.

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Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Historic Los Angeles photograph album

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The album is composed of 19 black-and-white photographs of historic sites in Los Angeles, California, in 1945 including La Golondrina Restaurant (formerly the Pelanconi Winery); the Avila Adobe; Olvera Street; the Plaza; the Lugo Adobe; Pico House; the Plaza Church (Nuestra Senora La Reyna de Los Angeles); the Abbot Block and the Merced Theater; the Amestoy Block; the Baker Block; the United States Post Office Terminal Annex; views from Fort Hill; the Plaza de la Justicia and the Hall of Records; Union Station; the tomb of Los Angeles pioneer Robert Carlisle; and the remains of the Protestant cemetery.

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Los Angeles Mission

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View of the Plaza Church, also known as Our Lady Queen of the Angels or La Iglesia Nuestra Señora de los Angeles, on North Main Street, in Los Angeles, California, as seen from the Los Angeles Plaza, with horse-drawn wagons in front.

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Old Mission Catholic Church, Los Angeles, Cal

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View of the Plaza Church, also known as Our Lady Queen of the Angels or La Iglesia Nuestra Señora de los Angeles, on North Main Street, in Los Angeles, California, as seen from across the street behind a picket fence in the Los Angeles Plaza.

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Olvera Street, Los Angeles, Calif

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Image of two women kneeling at a sculpture of Mary housed in a cabinet on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California. The women are dressed in Mexican dresses and are holding sombreros. The words "Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles" are painted beneath the cabinet.

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