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Miscellaneous photographs of Southern California and Arizona

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    Photographs of Native Americans of Yuma, Arizona

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    Cabinet card photographs of Native men and women in Yuma, Arizona, taken by photographer E. A. Bonine of Pasadena. The portraits include baskets, pottery and other artifacts. Two photographs of Native huts, and an overview of a village.

    photPF 450-469

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    Miscellaneous photographs of Southern California and other places

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    Includes seven photographs, including one postcard. Subjects include the Wilson School and Carterhia (Nathaniel C. Carter's home) in the San Gabriel Valley; San Pedro; a beached whale on an unidentified beach; Jessie Benton Fremont and her daughter, Elizabeth; and a postcard of a stucco house with an undated and unsigned handwritten inscription. Identified photographers include Carleton Watkins and the Garden City Foto Company.

    photPF 770-789

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    Various photographs of southern California

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    Consists of six photographs taken of a one story frame house in Santa Barbara, an unnamed lake (as an advertisement for the Hemet Land & Water Company for fruit lands and lots), Mission San Gabriel, John Muir, a view of Pasadena, the San Gabriel Valley, and the Mount Lowe Observatory from Mount Lowe, and an unidentified pioneer with his burro and dog. Identified photographers include L. N. Cook, C. B. Waite, and E. S. Frost & Son.

    photPF 1460-1479

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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.

    photPF 730-739

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    Photographs of Southern California Missions

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    Photographs by an unidentified amateur photographer of various southern California Missions including Mission San Fernando, Mission San Juan Capistrano, Mission San Luis Rey, Mission San Gabriel, and Mission San Miguel. There are several unidentified missions, including two views of mission interiors, and one view of a dilapidated olive crusher.

    photPF 20071-20085

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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