Visual Materials

European views collection

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Description: Contains fifteen views of various European locations including Oberwesel, Blarney Castle, Dublin Post Office, and Glasgow.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1870s-1900s.
Call number: priPEF 62
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of January 2025.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

English views collection

Visual Materials

Contains twelve views of different locations across England including Dorset, St. James's Palace, Dartmouth Castle, Battle Abbey, and Penhurst Place.

priPEF 63

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Views of European cities

Visual Materials

This collection contains views of European cities and landmarks.

priPEF 86

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Views of North American locations

Visual Materials

This collection contains views of various locations in the United States including Central Park, Randolph-Macon College, and the prisoners' barracks on Johnson's Island, Lake Erie.

priPEF 58

Crossing the Plains. Views drawn from Nature, 1853

Rare Books

Image contains thirteen vignettes depicting various locations emigrants passed as they crossed the plains (such as Chimney Rock, Castle Rock, Laramie Peak, etc.), Indians that emigrants encountered, and activities that emigrants engaged in as they crossed the plains. "Views Drawn from Nature, in 1853, by George H. Baker."--text, below title of image. "Published by Barber & Baker, Sacramento. Copywright [sic] secured."--text, below image. Paper color: gray.

48052:196

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Historical Society of Southern California Collection--Krueger Collection of Photographs

Visual Materials

The Krueger Collection consists of 103 black-and-white photographs and 103 negatives depicting sites and locations within the greater Los Angeles, California, area. Images of Los Angeles include the Lugo Adobe; Olvera Street; Ord Street in Chinatown; Union Station; the United States Post Office Terminal Annex; City Hall; the Hall of Justice; the Old Hall of Records; the Post Office and Federal Building; the California State Building; the Los Angeles Times Building; Pershing Square; streets in downtown Los Angeles decorated with Christmas decorations; and the Ambassador Hotel. Images of Hollywood include views of Hollywood Boulevard (some showing Christmas decorations); Grauman's Chinese and Egyptian Theaters; the Florentine Gardens nightclub; CBS facilities, including KNX/CBS Radio Playhouse with the Lux Radio Theater; NBC facilities; the Earl Carroll Theatre; the Hollywood Scenic Gardens (Bernheimer Gardens); the Brown Derby Restaurant (the Hollywood and Wilshire Boulevard locations); and Griffith Observatory. Other sites in greater Los Angeles include Exposition Park; Westlake (MacArthur) Park; and the Bernheimer Gardens in Pacific Palisades. Also included are views of Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California; views of Long Beach, including the Pike, City Hall, the Public Library, and the Municipal Auditorium; and views in and around Lake Arrowhead.

photCL 400 volume 32

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[Album of commerical views of California]

Visual Materials

A photograph album with commerical photographic prints of various locations in California including: Santa Barbara, an orange grove in Riverside, Coronado Beach, Pasadena, a petrified forests in Napa Valley, San Luis Obispo, various locations in San Francisco including the Japanese Garden, and views of Yosemite. The location names are handwritten above the images. Several hotels in the various locations are also depicted. May have been compiled by an English tourist to the area as the album has a stamp: "Brough & Son, Commercial stationers, 6 Cannon Row, Westminster".

photCL 316

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