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Photographs of Santa Catalina Island

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Description: Consists of ten photographs, nine of which are cabinet cards and one of which is a print. Photographs are primarily set in Avalon and feature the Hotel Metropole, the growth of the city, Avalon Bay, local wildlife, and the steamer ship Hermosa.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1880s-1910s.
Call number: photPF 940-949
Provenance: Acquired from Crank, 1937.
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Avalon Bay, Catalina Island, California

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Elevated view of the city of Avalon on Santa Catalina, Island, California, showing a steamer ship in Avalon Bay with the Hotel Metropole visible near the dock at center and the Peter Gano House (later known as Holly Hill House), in the foreground at right. There are boats tied up in the bay, the Sugarloaf Rock, and shops and tent cabins along the beach with houses in the distance.

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Avalon Bay, Catalina Island

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Image of a steamer ship in Avalon Bay with the Hotel Metropole near the pier at center and the Peter Gano House, also known as the Holly Hill house, in the distance at left on Santa Catalina Island, California. There are boats tied up in the bay and shops and tent cabins along the beach with houses in the distance.

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Avalon Bay, Catalina Island

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Image of a steamer ship in Avalon Bay with the Hotel Metropole near the pier at center and the Peter Gano House, also known as the Holly Hill house, in the foreground at right on Santa Catalina Island, California. There are boats tied up in the bay and shops and tent cabins along the beach with houses in the distance.

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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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Stagecoach on road, Avalon, Catalina Island

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Image of a horse-drawn stagecoach driving down a dirt road near the town of Avalon with boats in Avalon Bay in the distance on Santa Catalina Island, California. The back of the Metropole Hotel can be seen at center.

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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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Photographs of Santa Catalina Island

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