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Views of Southern California
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This volume contains: Chapel, San Luis Rey Corridor of San Fernando View through bell tower, San Fernando Ruined Chapel, San Juan Capistrano Bell tower, San Luis Rey San Luis Rey San Diego, Mother of Missions Campanile, Pala Mission Ruins, San Diego In the mission garden, San Juan Capistrano San Juan Capistrano: "These ruins were once the most beautiful mission in all California" Photo missing: "White campanile and chapel of Pala Mission" San Juan Capistrano Pages 5-13: Blank Page 14: Beach scene panorama (3 photos pasted together) Pages 15-16.: Blank Pages 17-26. Beach scenes. Note: Album opens from opposite directions.
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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.
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Views of Los Angeles and Vicinity, (bulk 1876)
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78 stereographic photographs depicting plant life in and around Los Angeles, California; birds-eye views of various parts of Los Angeles, San Diego and San Bernardino; Wilmington Harbor; various missions (including Mission San Gabriel [nos. 65, 135], San Juan Capistrano [nos. 154, 155, 156], Mission San Luis Rey [nos. 50, 158, 159, 162, 164], and Mission San Diego [nos. 165, 166, 167]); landscapes; and sections of Payne's panorama of Los Angeles [nos. 211-216 and 218-220]. Payne numbers 3, 10, 51, 53 (two images with the same number), 57, 58, 59, 62, 65, 68, 70, 75, 76, 77, 79, 87, 93, 95, 113, 134, 135, 141, 146, 149, 150, 154, 155, 156, 158, 159, 162, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168 (6 images with the same number, sections 1-5 of the panorama of San Diego), 173, 175, 178, 179, 180, 187, 188, 193, 194, 198, 200, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 218, 219, 220, and nine unnumbered images. Some images exist in duplicate. The mounts are stamped with three titles: Payne's Semi-Tropical California, Semi-Tropical California Scenery, and Southern California Scenery. The former two make up the bulk of the collection.
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Photographs of California missions and San Xavier del Bac, Arizona
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Mostly cabinet cards with imprints of various photographers. Subjects: San Fernando Mission; San Juan Capistrano; San Luis Rey; Santa Barbara Mission; and San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona. Includes half-stereograph of San Gabriel Mission showing train station nearby; part of Native American village near Santa Barbara Mission; some interiors.
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Views of Southern California
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This small, personal album of amateur photographs documents a trip through Southern California, ca. 1880s, from San Juan Capistrano through San Diego County. Of note are views of Indian schools and dwellings in the San Diego area. All of the photographs are accompanied by ink manuscript captions. Subjects are: Mission San Juan Capistrano; two views of people with horse and buggy on the shore near Oceanside; caves at La Jolla; adobe building at Old Town [San Diego, possibly Casa de Estudillo]; Indian schools in Old Mission Valley; people camping among the old olive trees on the Old Mission ranch; Sweetwater Dam; mud and brush huts at Agua Caliente; camping by the roadside before reaching Strawberry Valley [San Diego County]. The album has paper covers, tied with a ribbon binding. The cover has a hand-painted title: Views of Southern California. The compiler and photographer are unknown.
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