Inventory of the Hubert McClain Photograph Collection SPC.2011.004
Finding aid prepared by Erica Watson, 2011. Finding aid was revised and accruals were added in 2022, Karen Clemons
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
2011; 2022
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Contributing Institution:
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
Title: Hubert A. McClain Photograph Collection
Creator:
McClain, Hubert A.
Identifier/Call Number: SPC.2011.004
Physical Description:
12 boxes
(eight photograph boxes, two negative storage boxes, two oversized boxes)
Physical Description:
28 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1935-1973; undated
Abstract: This collection contains photographs, slides, and negatives taken and collected by Hubert A. McClain. The content of the photos
are of California missions, Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose, and from his work as a staff photographer for the Long Beach Press
Telegram, Los Angeles Mirror, Los Angeles Times, and the Long Beach naval shipyard. Also included are images of western state
national parks such as Yosemite, Joshua Tree, and Glacier National Park. Other photos include Antarctica, Germany, and Switzerland.
Language of Material:
English
.
Access
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives
and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
This collection was donated by Lyndra Seeley, Hubert McClain's daughter, and Oliver Seeley to the Archives and Special Collections
at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Processing Information
Materials were processed and arranged by Erica Watson in 2011; and Karen Clemons 2022
Biography
Hubert A. McClain was born on March 6, 1909 in Protection, Kansas. His father, a wheat farmer, moved the family to Kansas
City in the 1920s. Hubert married Murriel Hawkins in 1929 and worked as a photographer for the Kansas City Star until 1937
when he drove with his wife and two young sons in their new Desoto to Long Beach, California. After his arrival he became
the manager for the Winstead Brothers Camera Store on Pine Street in downtown Long Beach. The McClain's daughter was born
in 1940 and at the outbreak of World War II, Hurbert went to work at the Long Beach Naval Shipyards as a photographer. Following
t he war he worked as a photographer for the Long Beach Press Telegram until 1948 when he started taking photos for the Los
Angles Mirror, a subsidiary of the Los Angeles Times. Prior to the demise of the Mirror in the 1950s, Hubert transferred to
the Los Angeles Times where he worked for the rest of his career. In addition to his work as a photojournalist, Hubert developed
a keen interest in nature photography, which he pursued for over twenty years. His nature photos are from all over the United
States and Europe, including but not unlimited to Yosemite, Antarctica, and Switzerland. Hubert McClain passed away in February,
1994; just two weeks shy of his 85th birthday.
Scope and Content
The Hubert A. McClain Photo Collection (1935-1973; undated) contains 12 boxes and 28 linear feet of photographic prints, slides,
and negatives that span from the 1930s to the 1970s resulting from McClain's work as a photojournalist for the Los Angeles
Times and as a nature photographer. There are images from California missions taken in the 1940s and 1950s, and include various
stills of people, places, and events. The prints range in size from 8x10 through 22x28. Mission images include exterior photographs,
slides and negatives of the missions of San Diego, San Luis Obispo, San Francisco, Soledad, San Fernando, Solano, Sonoma,
San Jose, San Rafael, Santa Clara, Carmel, San Jose, Santa Cruz, San Luis Rey, Santa Barbara, San Buenaventura, San Juan Capistrano,
San Ynes, La Purisima, San Miguel, San Antonio de Padua, San Miguel and San Gabriel. Photojournalism topics include a building
collapse from 1952, where five people were killed, the city of Rolling Hills incorporation in 1957 with horses and homes,
date farming in the Coachella Valley, and an aerial shot of Long Beach (Rainbow Lagoon), California from 1957. The collection
also has photographs of a Japanese farm in Rancho Palos Verdes (1938), San Pedro Lighthouse, the Cascades water in Owen's
Valley, Orange County Highway 18, Sonja Heine publicity tour, Upton Sinclair, Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose (during construction),
Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock house, an Imperial Valley farm, and the camera used to film, Birth of a Nation. Also, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt giving a speech in Kansas City, Missouri in 1935, the USS Iowa and Mothball Fleet docked at Long Beach Harbor
in 1947 and mastodon tusks from Alaska. There are photos of Los Angeles Times staffers from the 1950s and a photo of Agnes
Moorhead. Also in the collection there are numerous photographs, slides and negatives of nature in western National parks.
Included are different sites of Yosemite, Bryce Canyon, The Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree, Glacier, Muir Woods, Six Rivers, Sequoia,
and Yellowstone. There are also images of Jasper, Banff, Victoria, and Vancouver, in Canada; Wetzlar, Kelsterbach, Schwartzwald,
and Heidelberg Castle in Germany; and Lucern, Zermatt, and Schweiz, Switzerland. The photographs and slides are in black-and-white
and color.
Arrangement
Arranged in 19 series:
- Series I. California Missions
- Series II. Southern California
- Series III. Kansas
- Series IV. Frank Lloyd Wright
- Series V. Long Beach
- Series VI. Antartica
- Series VII. Fabian Peterson
- Series VIII. San Fernando Dig
- Series IX. Eric Berndt
- Series X. Jet Propulson Lab, Pasadena
- Series XI. Newspaper
- Series XII. California State Parks
- Series XIII. California Nature
- Series XIV. National Parks
- Series XV. Europe
- Series XVI. Canada
- Series XVII. Portraits and Objects
- Series XVIII. Nature
- Series XIX. Coachella Valley
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Missions -- California
Half Dome (Calif.)
Hughes flying-boat (Seaplane)
Banff National Park (Alta.)
Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah)
Germany
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Grand Teton (Ariz.)
Imperial Valley (Calif.)
Joshua Tree National Park (Calif.)
Kelsterbach (Germany)
Long Beach Harbor (Calif.)
Rolling Hills (Calif.)
San Pedro Bay (Calif.)
Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness (Calif.)
Schwartzwald (Germany)
Switzerland
Vancouver (B.C.)
Victoria (B.C.)
Wetzlar (Germany)
Yellowstone National Park
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
Zermatt (Switzerland)
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
Los Angeles Times (Firm)
Series I: California Missions
1938-1956
Scope and Contents
Images of California Missions.
box 1
Brick ruins, possibly of old mission mc0110-112
undated
box 1
site of early mission Baja California mc0113
undated
box 1
San Quintín, Baja California near Hamilton Ranch mc0114
1950
box 1
site of possible old mission mc0115-116
undated
box 2
San Diego de Alcala (San Diego, CA.) mc0125
circa 1950
General
oversized copy located in box 6
box 2
San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel, CA.) mc0126-127
circa 1950
Physical Description: two images
General
oversized copy of mc0126 located in box 6
box 2
San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, CA.) mc0128-132
1950, 1952; undated
Physical Description: five images
General
oversized copies of mc0130 located in box 6 and box 9
box 2
San Francisco de Asis [Mission Dolores] (San Francisco, CA.) mc0133-134
circa 1950
Physical Description: two images
General
oversized copy of mc0134 located in box 6; oversized copy of mc0136 located in box 9.
box 2
San Juan Capistrano, photo of drawing mc0135
undated
box 2
San Juan Capistrano mc0136-137
1950; undated
Physical Description: two images
General
oversized copy of mc0136 located in box 6
box 2
San Buenaventura (Ventura, CA.) mc0138
circa 1950
General
oversized copy located in box 6
box 2
Mission Santa Barbara mc0139, mc0139a-c
circa 1950
Physical Description: three images
General
mc0139c is located in box 6
box 2
La Purisima (Lompoc, CA.) mc0140-142, mc0142a
circa 1950
Physical Description: three images
General
mc0142a is located in box 6
box 2
Mission Soledad mc0143-144
undated
Physical Description: two images
box 2
Mission San Miguel mc0145-146
circa 1950
Physical Description: two images
General
oversized copy of mc0145 is located in box 6
box 2
San Fernando Rey de Espana (Mission Hills, CA.) mc0147-148, mc0148a
circa 1950
Physical Description: two images
General
mc0148a is located in box 6
box 2
San Luis Rey de Francia (Oceanside, CA.) mc0149, mc0149a-b
1938
General
mc0149a-b are located in box 6
box 2
Mission San Rafael mc0150
undated
box 2
San Francisco de Solano (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA.) mc0151-152
undated
Physical Description: two images
General
oversized copies are located in box 6
box 2
San Antonio de Padua (Jolon, CA.) mc0152a-b
1950
box 2
San Diego Mission [slides] mc0153-167
1950
Physical Description: fifteen color slides
General
oversized copy of mc0153 is located in box 6
box 2
San Luis Rey Mission [slides] mc0168-175
1950
Physical Description: nine color slides
box 2
San Juan Capistrano Mission [slides] mc0176-180
1950
Physical Description: five color slides
box 2
San Gabriel Mission [slides] mc0181-195
1950
Physical Description: fifteen color slides
box 2
San Fernando Mission [slides] mc0196-201
1950
Physical Description: six color slides
box 2
San Buenaventura Mission [slides] mc0202-207
1950
Physical Description: six color slides
box 2
Santa Barbara Mission [slides] mc0208-213
1950
Physical Description: six color slides
box 2
Santa Ynez Mission [slides] mc0214-222
1950
Physical Description: nine color slides
box 2
La Purisima Mission [slides] mc0223-237
1950
Physical Description: fifteen color slides
box 2
San Luis Obispo Mission [slides] mc0238-240
1950
Physical Description: three color slides
box 2
San Miguel Mission [slides] mc0241-256
1950
Physical Description: sixteen color slides
box 2
San Antonio de Padua [slides] mc0257-259
1950
Physical Description: three color slides
box 2
San Juan Bautista Mission [slides] mc0260-262
1950
Physical Description: three color slides
box 2
Soledad Mission[slides] mc0263-264
1950
Physical Description: two color slides
box 2
Carmel Mission [slides] mc0265-275
1950
Physical Description: eleven color slides
box 2
Santa Cruz Mission [slides] mc0276-277
1950
Physical Description: two color slides
box 2
Santa Clara Mission [slides] mc0278-281
1950
Physical Description: four color slides
box 2
San Jose Mission [slides] mc0282-286
1950
Physical Description: five color slides
box 2
San Francisco Mission, Dolores [slides] mc0287-290
1950
Physical Description: four color slides
box 2
San Rafael Mission [slides] mc0291-294
1950
Physical Description: four color slides
box 2
Sonoma Mission [slides] mc0295-298
1950
Physical Description: four color slides
box 2
Mission cross, [unknown slides] mc0301
circa 1950?
box 2
Mission slides, unknown slides mc304-314
circa 1950?
Physical Description: eleven color slides
box 3
San Diego, mission? mc0315-320
undated
box 3
Mission slides, unknown
undated
box 7
Belltower, San Diego Mission mc1351
1950
box 7
Companiel, San Diego Mission mc1352
undated
box 7
Painting, San Gabriel Mission mc1353
undated
box 7
Front view, San Francisco Mission mc1354
undated
box 7
Exterior, San Juan Capistrano Mission mc1355
1954
box 7
Exterior, San Juan Capistrano mc1356
1954
box 7
Exterior, San Juan Capistrano mc1357
1954
box 7
Small scale replica, exterior San Juan Capistrano Mission mc1358
1954
box 7
Front view, San Juan Capistrano Mission mc1359
1954
box 7
Small scale replica, exterior San Juan Capistrano Missions mc1360
1954
box 7
Exterior, San Juan Capistrano Mission mc1361
1954
box 7
Front view, Santa Barbara Mission mc1362
undated
box 7
Front view with cars, Santa Barbara Mission mc1363
undated
box 7
Front view, La Purisima Mission mc1364
undated
box 7
Exterior, La Purisima Mission mc1365
undated
box 7
Belltower, La Purisima Mission mc1366
undated
box 7
Belltower, La Purisima Mission mc1367
undated
box 7
Wall, Soledad Mission mc1368
1952
box 7
Exterior, Soledad and Carmel Missions mc1369
1956
box 7
Exterior, San Miguel Mission mc1370
undated
box 7
Exterior with cars, San Miguel Mission mc1371
undated
box 7
Exterior, San Luis Rey Mission mc1372
undated
box 7
Windows, San Luis Rey Mission mc1373
undated
box 7
Close-up windows, San Luis Rey Mission mc1374
undated
box 7
Front view, San Rafael Mission mc1375
undated
box 7
Front view, San Antonio de Padua mc1376
undated
box 7
Front view, San Antonio de Padua mc1377
undated
box 7
Exterior, Solano Mission mc1378
undated
box 7
Cross, Solano Mission mc1379
undated
box 7
Cross, Solano Mission mc1380
undated
box 7
29 Palms Oasis mc1381
1940
box 9
Front View, San Antonio de Padua Mission mc1452
1950
Physical Description: five photographs
box 9
Front view, Santa Inez Mission mc1453
1950
box 9
Front view with arch, San Carlos de Carmel Mission mc1454
1950
box 9
Front view w/o arch, San Carlos Carmel Mission mc1455
1950
box 9
Front view, Santa Barbara Mission mc1457
1950
box 9
Arch, San Juan Capistrano Mission mc1458
1950
box 9
Exterior, San Juan Capistrano Mission mc1459
1950
box 9
Campana de Puerta mc1498
1938
box 9
Façade, San Louis Rey Mission mc1456, mc1484
undated
box 10
Mission San Antonio de Padua (Jolon CA) mc1594-1598
1951
Physical Description: two color transparencies; nine negatives
box 10
Mission Buena Ventura mc1599-1602
undated
Physical Description: five negatives
box 10
Mission La Purisima mc1603-1605
undated
Physical Description: seven negatives
box 10
Mission San Carlos (Carmel CA) mc1606-1607
undated
Physical Description: seven negatives
box 10
Mission San Diego mc1608-1612
undated
Physical Description: twenty five negatives
box 10
Mission San Fernando mc1613-1617
undated
Physical Description: six negatives
box 10
Mission San Juan Capistrano mc1619-1628
March 1945
Physical Description: nineteen negatives
box 10
Mission San Juan Bautista mc1618
undated
Physical Description: two negatives
box 10
Mission San Gabriel mc1629-1635
undated
Physical Description: twenty five negatives
box 10
Mission San Miguel mc1636-1639
undated
Physical Description: fourteen negatives
box 10
Mission San Luis Obispo mc1640-1641
undated
Physical Description: three negatives
box 10
Mission San Luis Rey mc1642-1648
undated
Physical Description: nine negatives
box 10
Mission San Rafael mc1649-1650
undated
Physical Description: two negatives
box 10
Mission San Francisco de Asis Delores mc1651-1652
undated
Physical Description: eight negatives
box 10
Mission San Francisco de Solano (Sonoma) mc1653-1654
undated
Physical Description: six negatives
box 10
Mission Santa Barbara mc1655-1664
undated
Physical Description: thirty two negatives; one color transparency
box 10
Mission Santa Clara mc1665-1666
undated
Physical Description: two negatives
box 10
Mission Santa Inez mc1667
undated
Physical Description: six negatives
box 10
Mission Soledad mc1668
undated
Physical Description: one negative
box 10
unidentified missions mc1669-1673
undated
Physical Description: eleven negatives
box 11
California msisions in 1950 [exhibit posters]
1950; undated
Series II: Southern California
circa 1930-1950s; undated
Scope and Contents
Images of Southern California
box 1
Japanese farms along Palos Verdes Peninsula mc0001
1938
box 1
San Pedro Lighthouse Point Fermin mc0002
undated
box 1
The cliff at Point Firmin [San Pedro] mc0003
undated
box 1
Lighthouse Palos Verdes mc0004
1947-1948
box 1
Sheep in Imperial Valley mc0005-mc0006
1938
Physical Description: three photographs
box 1
Highway 18 through Buena Park and Fullerton mc0007
1938
box 1
Hans Georg and Muriel McClain in front of Hans Georg Ski School, Mammoth Lakes mc0008
undated
box 1
The Cascades, Los Angeles-Owens River Aqueduct mc0009-mc0010
January 1963
Physical Description: two photographs
box 1
mud cracks- Encino Reservoir Los Angeles Department of Power mc0011
September 20, 1960
box 3
California coastline; also includes images possibly from missions or churches [slides] mc0326-338
undated
box 9
Grain harvest, Laguna Canyon Blvd, Orange County mc1267
1954
box 9
Eucalyptus trees, Orange County mc1268
undated
box 9
The Vessels and Turner women riding Palomino horses, Woodruff and Carson Streets, Long Beach mc1269
1947
box 9
Eucalyptus trees mc1270
1939
box 9
Palos Verde Peninsula, near Torrance mc1277
undated
box 7
Sniff's Date Garden mc1382
1939
box 7
Santa Anita Racetrack, stable hands waiting for rain to cease. "part of book" mc1403
undated
box 7
Oval gas tank, Richfield Oil Company mc1404
1947
box 7
Richfield Refinery, Speroid pressure vessels mc1405
1947
box 9
Palos Verdes mc1483
undated
box 1
sand dunes- California Arizona border near Yuma, AZ and Blythe CA. mc0052-mc0053
undated
Physical Description: five photographs. Four copies of the image taken near Blythe.
box 6
Pink Lady of Malibu Canyon [photograph and articles]
1969
box 10
Bunker Hill mansion, Los Angeles mc1535
circa 1940
Physical Description: color transparency
box 10
Cypress tree stump cores taken from La Brea tar pit mc1536
April 10, 1965
Physical Description: ten negatives
box 10
Palos Verdes estates, church and coastline mc1537
1938
Physical Description: color transparency
box 10
Palos Verdes estates. California coast with oil rigs in background mc1538
1938
Physical Description: color transparency
box 10
Huntington Beach, west end near the "Duck Hunters" lease mc1539
undated
Physical Description: two negatives
box 10
Bunker Hill mansion, Los Angeles mc1540
circa 1940s
Physical Description: color transparency
box 10
Rose Parade queen and court mc1541
circa 1960s
Physical Description: three negatives
box 10
Culver City float with Wizard of Oz characters, presumably from the Rose Parade mc1542
circa 1939-1940
Physical Description: color transparency
box 10
Burbank float, Rose Parade mc1543
circa 1940s
Physical Description: color transparency
box 10
Long Beach float, Rose Parade mc1544
circa 1940s
Physical Description: color transparency
box 12
Shirley Temple queen of the parade [Rose Parade]
1939
Physical Description: two photographs
box 10
site seeing, deco building mc1545
circa 1930s-1940s
Physical Description: color transparency
box 10
Citrus field. Capistrano Valley mc1546
undated
Physical Description: color transparency
box 10
Citrus fruit field, Capistrano Valley from westside looking east mc1547
undated
Physical Description: color transparency
box 12
ditch irrigation of crops in San Fernando Valley Los Angeles County
August 1963
box 12
the arrival of water from the Owens Valley down the aqueduct north of Glendale
1938
box 12
Oilfield workers servicing and cleaning an oil well, Signal Hill CA
1960
Physical Description: two photographs
box 12
San Pedro
undated
Physical Description: three photographs
Series III: Kansas
circa 1930s-1950s; undated
Scope and Contents
Images of Kansas
box 1
early morning in Union Station, Kansas City [four copies] mc0013
1935
box 1
well in Kansas City [two copies] mc0014
1935
box 1
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt mc0015
1935
box 1
Franklin Roosevelt speaking at large Kansas City auditorium mc0016
1935
box 1
Sonja Heine on her first tour of the United States after winning the Olympics in 1932 mc0017-mc0018
1937?
Physical Description: three photographs
box 1
Grand Avenue, Kansas City. Cars in front of Askin's Credit Clothiers mc0019
circa 1930s
box 1
Upton Sinclair mc0020
May 4, 1964
box 1
Bridge in Swoke Park [three copies] mc0021
undated
box 1
images of snow (study of light and shadows) mc0022, mc0025-mc0028
1932
Physical Description: five photographs
box 1
autumn morning, Swope Park [two copies] mc0023
1936
box 7
Photos for Kansas City Journal Post, Snow and parks, Kansas City, MO mc1424
1930s
Scope and Contents
includes prints and negatives
box 9
Snow with tracks "rabbit tracks" mc1489
1937
box 9
Snow with shadows, "Diagonals" mc1490
undated
box 9
Trees in park "Autumn Morning" mc1492
1937
box 9
"Light" [photograph of trees] mc1493
1937
box 12
trees
1935
Physical Description: two photographs
Series IV: Frank Lloyd Wright
circa 1940s-1950s; undated
Scope and Contents
Images of Frank Lloyd Wright Hollyhock House.
box 1
Pillars of Hollyhock [two copies] mc0029, mc0090
undated
box 1
Pond, Hollyhock [two copies] mc0030, mc0097
undated
box 1
View from pillar to courtyard, Hollyhock mc0031
undated
box 1
Closeup of pillar, Hollyhock mc0032
undated
box 1
Pond and Pillars Hollyhock mc0033, mc0091
undated
box 1
Courtyard of Hollyhock mc0090
undated
box 1
Courtyard with table Hollyhock mc0089
undated
box 1
Courtyard of Hollyhock, 2nd floor mc0095
undated
box 1
Side of back area, Hollyhock mc0094
undated
box 1
Pillars and stairs, Hollyhock mc0096
undated
box 1
Pond and side of Hollyhock mc0093
undated
box 1
Courtyard of Hollyhock mc0092
undated
Series V: Long Beach
circa 1930s-1970s; undated
Scope and Contents
Images of Long Beach
box 1
Long Beach Rainbow Lagoon, aerial mc0056
1957
box 1
Ship christening mc0058
undated
box 1
Young woman, ship christening mc0059
undated
box 1
Long Beach, Smashing champagne on ship, woman mc0060
undated
box 1
Long Beach, Smashing champagne on ship, man and woman mc0061
undated
box 1
Long Beach, Smashing champagne on ship, back view mc0062
undated
box 1
Long Beach shipyard mc0125
undated
box 1
Long Beach shipyard, construction mc0063
undated
box 1
Long Beach shipyard, construction ship mc0064
undated
box 1
Long Beach shipyard, construction close-up mc0065
undated
box 1
Long Beach, ship engine mc0066
undated
box 1
Woman with ship charts mc0067
undated
box 1
Two women marking sign for bonds mc0068
undated
box 1
US Army MTL-1193, small boat mc0069
undated
box 3
McClain home, exterior [slides] mc0612-0614
1978
Physical Description: three color slides
box 3
Queen Mary, exterior [slides] mc0615-618
1971
Physical Description: four color slides
box 9
H-4 Hercules (Spruce Goose) fuselage floating bridge, Long Beach mc1263
undated
box 9
H-4 Hercules (Spruce Goose) being assembled mc1264
undated
box 9
Long Beach, Rainbow Lagoon and old civic auditorium from air mc1265
1947
box 9
Clouds, Long Beach mc1266
undated
box 9
Pier 50, tugboats, Long Beach Harbor mc1272
1946
box 9
Battleship Iowa [two copies] mc1273
1947
box 9
US Navy "Mothball(ed) fleet of light and fast attack?" Long Beach Harbor mc1274
1947
box 9
Isle Royal and Mothball fleet mc1275
1947
box 9
US Springfield, docked mc1496
1947
box 6
Burton Chase former mayor of Long Beach: portrait; photograph of Burton and Pauline Chase
1948; undated
Series VI: Antarctica
circa 1940s
box 1
Little America, Antarctica mc0034
undated
Physical Description: two photographs
box 1
Antarctica pressure ridge in sea ice mc0035-mc0036
undated
Physical Description: two photographs
box 1
Antarctica, man drawn sled [two copies] mc0037
undated
box 1
Antarctica, wind storm blowing across ice and pressure ridges mc0038
undated
box 1
Antarctica, wind storm with ship in background mc0039
undated
Series VII: Fabian Peterson
1962-1963
Scope and Contents
Images of Fabian Peterson's fossil dig and mastodon teeth.
box 1
Fabian Peterson digging fossils from the permafrost in Alaska [three copies] mc0040
January 1963
box 1
Fabian Peterson with mastodon tusks he dug from permafrost in Alaska mc0041
December 1962
box 1
Fabian Peterson with mastodon teeth he dug from permafrost in Alaska mc0042
December 1962
Series VIII: San Fernando Dig
September 1968
Scope and Contents
Images of San Fernando dig.
box 1
Indian village dig, San Fernando State College [three copies] mc0043
September 1968
box 1
Men with rock [three copies] mc0044
September 1968
box 1
Men at dig sight [three copies] mc0045
September 1968
box 2
San Fernando Dig [slides] mc0302-303
1968?
Physical Description: two slides
Series IX: Eric Berndt
circa 1950s-1960s; undated
Scope and Contents
Images of Eric Berndt with cameras.
box 1
Eric Berndt with his collection of 35mm motion picture cameras mc0046
undated
box 1
Eric Berndt, Camera used to film "Birth of a Nation" mc0047
undated
box 1
Eric Berndt, 1875 kerosene lamp projector mc0048
undated
Series X: Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena
1967
Physical Description: 3 items
Scope and Contents
Images of Jet Propulsion Lab Pasadena.
box 1
Earth from the Moon, jet propulsion lab Pasadena mc0049
1967
box 1
Moon surface, closeup mc0051
1967
Series XI: Newspapers
circa 1940s-1960s; January 1962
Physical Description: 36 items
Scope and Contents
Images of events and people taken for publications. Also includes last issue of
Los Angeles Mirror News
box 1
photograph of newspaper staff and district attorney, Gilbert h. Beesemyer case [two copies] mc0070
December 1930
box 1
photograph presumably of newspaper staff mc0071
circa 1930s?
box 1
Portrait, Hubert McClain mc0078
1950
box 1
Portrait, George "Mike" Straszer editor LA Times 1952-1962 mc0072
undated
box 1
Robert Frampton, Hayden Reece, Horace "Bud" Anderson mc0073
undated
box 1
Suburban Staff Orange County, Robert Clyde Snyder, Henen Johnson, Rene Laursen, George Strauszer, Hubert McClain, Robert Frampton,
Robert Gettemy
mc0074
September 1953
box 1
Staff photo, Rland Laursen, Robert Clyde Snyder, Helen Johnson, George Strauszer, Robert Frampton, Robert Gettemy, Hubert
McClain,
mc0075
September 1953
box 1
LA press photo, opening of Hollywood Bowl Season Charlie Chaplin in right of photo mc0076
circa 1941-1942
box 1
Hubert McClain photographing Nancy Head at Ambassador Pool mc0077
1951
box 1
Portrait Hubert McClain mc0079
1962
box 1
Bob Martin in background as Hubert McClain checks Rolleiflex sync. "The Mirror" mc0080
1950
box 1
Gladys O'Donnell, wife of J. Lloyd O'Donnell mc0098
June 1967
box 1
"balcony building" mc0099
undated
box 1
photograph of Agnes Moorehead with two woman mc0100
October 1965
box 1
photographs of ballet dancers mc0101-103
undated
Physical Description: three photographs
box 1
photograph taken at American Gold Star Mothers event mc0104
May 1966
box 1
photograph of three women standing around a flower arrangement mc0105
October 1965
box 1
Milt Brouhard mc0106
September 1963
box 1
Portrait, man with pipe mc0107
undated
box 5
"rescue" building under construction, Los Angeles. trapped and killed five [four copies] mc1262
1952
Physical Description: oversized print located in box 9
box 9
"End of Prohibition", sandwich, pretzels, empty glass mc1271
undated
box 8
Bristle Cone Pine Forest, Owen Valley, CA mc1345
1956
box 8
Bristle Cone Pine Forest, Owen Valley mc1346
1956
box 7
Geological Mud cracks, San Fernando Reservoir mc1400
1960
box 7
New city dedication, Rolling Hills, Article for LA Times mc1414
1957
box 7
Home, people, Rolling Hills mc1415
1957
box 7
Homes, Rolling Hills mc1416
1957
box 7
Exterior, Rolling Hills mc1417
1957
box 7
Stables, horses, Rolling Hills mc1418
1957
box 7
Ranch, hills, Rolling Hills mc1419
1957
box 7
Person, hills, Rolling Hills mc1420
1957
box 7
Panoramic view, Rolling Hills mc1421
1957
box 7
Ranch, gate, Rolling Hills mc1422
1957
box 7
Women in a kitchen, Rolling Hills mc1423
1957
box 12
The Day "The Mirror" died
1962
Physical Description: two photographs
Scope and Contents
Norman Chandler tells employees the sad news.
box 12
images taken during California wild flower holiday in Bakersfield
circa 1938
Physical Description: five photographs
box 9
Los Angeles Mirror News (two copies)
January 5, 1962
Series XII: California State Parks
circa 1930s-1960s
Scope and Contents
Images of California state parks
box 1
Muriel and Hubert, Anza-Borego State Park mc0081
May 30, 1955
box 3
Anza-Borego State Park [slides] mc0321-mc0611
undated
box 3
Torrey Pine State Park [slides] mc0321-mc0611
undated
box 3
Muir Woods [slides] mc0321-mc0611
undated
box 3
Point Lobos State Natural Reserve [slides] mc0321-mc0611
undated
box 3
Pinnacles [slides] mc0321-mc0611
undated
Scope and Contents
includes images of Santa Lucia fir
box 3
Mt. Lassen [slides] mc0321-mc0611
undated
box 3
Yosemite National Park- Tiago Summit, Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite Valley, Half Dome, Vogelsang Camp [slides] mc0321-mc0611
1950; undated
box 6
Yosemite National Park- Glacier Point, Vernal Point, Half Dome mc0321-mc0611
circa 1940s
Physical Description: nine photographs
box 3
Joshua Tree National Park [slides] mc0321-mc0611
undated
box 3
Crater Lake, Mt. Whitney [slides] mc0321-mc0611
undated
box 7
Sugar Pine, Sequoia mc1387
1948
box 8
Lassen Volcanic Peak and lake mc1340
1953
box 7
Half Dome from Glacier point
1953
box 8
Flowers in desert
undated
box 4
Huntington Lake, Sierra National Forest [slides] mc0686-733
1963
Scope and Contents
Huntington Lake and Thomas A. Edison Lakes. Southern California Edison electric company hydro plant and storage basins, Yacht
race on 4th of July, Wild flowers at Summit Meadows, Dinky creek, Snow Plant in bloom.
box 4
Six Rivers National Forest, cobra plants [slides] mc0746-757
1970-1972
box 5
Pinnacles monument mc1278-1279
1959
Physical Description: two photographs
box 5
Gateway trees, Sequoia National Park mc1280
undated
box 5
Trees with family, Sequoia National Park mc1281
1938
box 5
Tunnel tree, Sequoia National Park mc1282
1949
box 5
Kings River in Grant Grove Park mc1284
1939
box 5
Snow, Yosemite mc1294-1295
undated
Physical Description: two photographs
box 5
Sentinel on Sentinel Dome, Yosemite mc1296
undated
box 5
Backside of Half Dome, Yosemite mc1297
undated
box 5
Half Dome, evening, Yosemite mc1298
undated
box 5
Mirror Lake, Yosemite, J. Lloyd O'Donnell mc1299
1940
box 5
Bridge, Half Dome, Yosemite mc1302
undated
box 8
Minarets Range, Sierra Mountains [five copies] mc1315
1961
box 8
Mt. Conness, Yosemite [two copies] mc1317
undated
box 8
Vogelsang Peak and camping area [two copies] mc1318
1957
box 8
Cathedral Peak, upper Yosemite [two copies] mc1319
undated
box 8
Lembert Dome, Tuoulume Meadow, Yosemite [two copies] mc1320
undated
box 8
Washington Arch, Yosemite mc1321
undated
box 8
Granite, May Lake, Yosemite mc1322
1957
box 8
Yosemite Falls mc1323
1959
box 8
Vogelsang area, Yosemite mc1324
1957
box 8
Tree, May Lake, Yosemite mc1325
1957
box 8
Jeffery Pine, Yosemite mc1326
undated
box 8
Yosemite, granite mc1328
undated
box 8
T uolumne Meadows, Yosemite mc1330
undated
box 8
Vogelsang Peak, Yosemite mc1331
1957
box 8
Small lake, Vogelsang Peak, Yosemite mc1332
undated
box 8
Yosemite near May Lake mc1333
undated
box 8
Half Dome, Yosemite mc1334
undated
box 8
May Lake, Yosemite mc1335
undated
box 8
Vogelsang Peak, Yosemite mc1336
1957
box 8
Tree, May Lake, Yosemite mc1337
1957
box 8
Vogelsang camp and peak, Yosemite mc1338
1957
box 8
Back country,Mt. Conness Yosemite mc1339
undated
box 7
Sugar Pine, Sequoia mc1387
undated
box 7
Mt. Cornell, Glacier, MT mc1388
1959
box 7
Tree, Sequoia mc1389
undated
box 7
Redwood Park, Sequoia National Park mc1391
undated
box 7
Mt. Lassen Park mc1392
undated
box 7
Mirror Lake (bridge westside), Yosemite mc1396
1938
box 7
Vernal Falls, Yosemite mc1397
1938
box 7
Mirror Lake ,Falls, Yosemite mc1398
1938
box 7
Portal trees near entrance, Sequoia mc1407
1948
box 7
Cathedral Grove, Sequoia mc1408
1948
box 7
Sugar Pine, Sequoia mc1409
1948
box 7
Moro Rock, Sequoia mc1410-1411
1948
Physical Description: two photographs
box 7
Roaring river, Sequoia mc1412
1944
box 7
Dawn at Mirror Lake, Yosemite mc1413
1938
box 7
Tree, Yosemite mc1428
1940
box 7
Yosemite Falls mc1429
1946
box 7
Yosemite Falls mc1430
1943
box 7
Laccolith, Yosemite mc1431
1950
box 7
Laccolith, Yosemite mc1432
1950
box 7
Glacier point, Yosemite mc1433
undated
box 7
Half Dome from Glacier point, Yosemite mc1434-1435
1953
Physical Description: two photographs
box 7
Tuolomne Meadow, Yosemite mc1436
1957
box 7
Vogelsang, Yosemite mc1437
1957
box 7
Mt. Vogelsang, Yosemite mc1438
1957
box 7
Mt Vogelsang Pk, Yosemite mc1439
1957
box 7
Mt.Vogelsang, Yosemite mc1440
1957
box 7
Mt. Vogelsang mountain area mc1441
1957
box 7
Mt.Vogelsang, Yosemite mc1442
1957
box 7
Vogelsang campsite, Yosemite mc1443
1957
box 7
Glen Avlin camp area, Yosemite mc1444
1957
box 7
May Lake area, Yosemite mc1445
1957
box 7
Laccolith, Yosemite mc1446
1957
box 7
May Lake, Yosemite mc1447
1957
box 7
Tenya Lake, Yosemite mc1448
1957
box 7
Trees, Yosemite mc1449
1957
box 8
Joshua Tree National Monument desert scenes mc1521-1532
February 1956
Physical Description: fifteen photographs
box 9
Mountains, Joshua Tree [nine copies] mc1461
1975
box 9
Moro Rock, Sequoia National Park mc1486
1947
box 11
Vogelsang, Yosemite mc1516
undated
box 10
Death Valley National Monument, Badwater from Dante's View mc1549
undated
Physical Description: one negative
box 10
Yosemite mc1550
circa 1960s?
Physical Description: two negatives
box 10
Yosemite, J.L. O'Donnell's trailer mc1551
1938
Physical Description: color transparency
box 10
Kings River Canyon mc1552
1939
Physical Description: color transparency
box 10
Joshua Tree National Monument, cottonwood springs mc1553
1969
Physical Description: two negatives; four frames
box 9
desert shrubbery mc1472-1473
undated
Physical Description: two photographs
box 9
Trees [soft focus] mc1466, mc1474-1476
1956; undated
Physical Description: eleven photographs
box 12
Sequoia National Park, General Sherman
1941
Series XIII: California Nature
circa 1940s-1960s; undated
Physical Description: 124 items
Scope and Contents
Images of California nature.
box 1
Torrey pine cone mc0012
January 5, 1965
box 1
branch with berries mc0109
undated
box 1
Sunset, ocean and palm trees mc0121
1956
box 1
horse tail rush or reed mc0123
June 1961
box 1
Sierra Shooting Star Flower, Bridal Veil Falls Campground mc0124
undated
box 2
Poppies [slides] mc0299-300
undated
Physical Description: two color slides
box 4
La Quinta, overlook [slides] mc0619-640
1970
Scope and Contents
cove above LaQuinta. Flowers along the path and in the rocks.
box 4
Wild flowers, San Juan area Orange and Riverside County [slides] mc0641-664
May 1971
box 4
Wild flowers, Joshua Tree [slides] mc0665-671
undated
box 4
Wildflowers, coast Highway 1 [slides] mc0672-685
1972
box 4
Santa Lucia fir [slides] mc0734-mc0745
circa 1970s?
box 4
Devil's Postpile, Mammoth Lake [slides] mc0758-781
undated
box 4
Monument Valley, sheep herding [slides] mc0782-793
undated
box 9
Goldfinch feeding on sugar water mc1276
undated
box 5
River and side of mountain mc1301
undated
box 8
Trilobite, oldest indication of animal life, Glacier mc1347
undated
box 7
Trilobite Ocellus fossil near Amboy, CA mc1394
undated
box 7
Trilobite Onellius fossil near Amboy, CA mc1395
undated
box 7
Young Santa Lucia Fir Tree, Cone Park mc1399
1960
box 7
Butterflies, CA mc1401
undated
box 7
Butterflies, Butterfly Lane, CA mc1402
undated
box 7
Trilobite Onellius, Cadiz Junction mc1406
undated
box 7
Monterey Cypress tree mc1425-1427
1939
box 9
Lighthouse, ocean mc1462
undated
box 9, box 11
Tree [four copies] mc1464
undated
box 11
Tree mc1510-1512, 1515
undated
box 11
Woman in poppy field mc1514
1942
box 10
flower arrangement mc1548
undated
Physical Description: three color transparencies
box 10
desert view, three palm trees mc1554
undated
Physical Description: color transparency
box 10
Hubert McClain photographing in the CA desert mc1555
1939
Physical Description: color transparency
box 10
desert landscape with car mc1556
1930s-1940s?
Physical Description: color transparency
box 10
trilobite fossil, Old Woman Mountains, Cadiz CA mc1679
undated
Physical Description: one negative
box 12
Monterey Cypress tree
1939
box 5
The Minaretts range of the Sierras from Minarett Summit overlook, Mammoth lakes area mc1283
1961
box 5
Lake Mary, Mammoth mc1293
undated
box 8
Twin Lakes, Mammoth mc1316
1958
Series XIV: National State Parks
circa 1940s-1960s
Physical Description: 43 items
Scope and Contents
Images of National state parks
box 5
Grand Teton, WY [slides] mc1022-1081
1964
Physical Description: 60 color slides
box 5
Grand Canyon, AZ [slides] mc1082-1093
1973
Physical Description: 12 color slides
box 5
Bryce Canyon; Cedar Breaks UT [slides] mc1094-1105
1973
Physical Description: 12 color slides
box 5
Snowbent popular trees, Grand Teton, WY mc1285
1953
box 5
Teewinot Mt., Grand Teton, WY mc1286
undated
box 5
Grand Teton Mt, WY mc1287-1292
undated
Physical Description: seven photographs
box 5
Yellowstone River, WY mc1304-1305
undated
Physical Description: two photographs
box 5
Fairyland Formation, Bryce Canyon, UT [four copies] mc1306
undated
Scope and Contents
oversized prints located in box 8.
box 5
Temple of Vishnu, Grand Canyon, AZ [three copies] mc1307
1960
Scope and Contents
oversize prints located in box 8
box 5
From watchtower near Marble Canyon, Grand Canyon, AZ [three copies] mc1308
1956-1967
Scope and Contents
oversized prints located in box 8.
box 5
Grand Canyon, AZ [two copies] mc1309
1960
Scope and Contents
oversized print located in box 8.
box 5
Marble Canyon, AZ [six copies] mc1310
undated
Scope and Contents
oversized prints located in box 8.
box 5
Near Yava Pt., Grand Canyon, AZ [six copies] mc1311
1960
Scope and Contents
oversized prints located in box 8.
box 8
Sand stone cliff, Grand Canyon, AZ mc1313
1941
box 8
Mt. Grinnell, Glacier Park, MT [two copies] mc1314
1959
box 8
Tweewinot, Grand Teton, Mt. Owens, Grand Tetons Range, WY mc1327
1954
box 8
Grand Teton Range, WY mc1329
1955
box 8
Specimen Ridge, Yellowstone [three copies] mc1341
1959
box 8
Yellowstone Falls mc1342
1953
box 8
Mt. Moran, Jackson Hole, WY [two copies] mc1343
1954
box 8
Colonial algae, Glacier National Park mc1346
undated
box 7
Fairyland, Bryce Canyon, UT mc1383
undated
box 7
Colonial algae, Glacier, MT mc1384
1959
box 7
Colonial algae, Glacier, MT mc1385
1959
box 12
Colonial algae, Glacier, MT
1959
box 7
Cedar Breaks, Grand Teton, Bryce Canyon mc1386
undated
box 7
Artist's point , Yellowstone mc1450
1952
box 9
Fairyland, Bryce Canyon mc1477
undated
box 9
Grand Teton National Park, string lake foreground. Mt. Teewinot on left mc1487
undated
box 9
Crazy Horse Monument, ND mc1497
1949
box 9
Geyser, Yellowstone mc1499
undated
box 11
Mountains, Teton, WY mc1504
undated
box 9
Fairyland, Bryce Canyon, UT mc1471
undated
box 11
Fairyland, Bryce Canyon, UT mc1507-1508
undated
Physical Description: two photographs
box 9, box 11
Mt. Clemens, Glacier, MT [two copies] mc1469
undated
box 10
Bryce Canyon National Park mc1559-1563
circa 1940s
Physical Description: five color transparencies
box 10
Grand Canyon mc1564-1573
circa 1940s
Physical Description: eight color transparencies; four negatives
box 10
Blackfoot Glacier National Park mc1574-1575
July 1959
Physical Description: one color transparency; two negatives
box 10
Zion National Park mc1576-1580
circa 1941
Physical Description: five color transparencies
box 10
Grand Teton National Park mc1581-1584
July 1959
Physical Description: three negatives; one color transparency
box 10
Specimen Ridge, Fossil Forest Yellowstone National Park mc1585-1586
July 1959
Physical Description: two color transparencies
box 10
Glacier National park mc1587-1588
July 1959
Physical Description: two color transparencies
box 10
Kings Canyon National Park mc1589-1590
1939
Physical Description: two color transparencies
box 10
Mt. Rainier mc1591
1969
Physical Description: eight negatives
box 10
Monument Valley mc1592-1593
circa 1960s
Physical Description: sixteen negatives
box 10
Grand Teton- reference mc1677
undated
Physical Description: three negatives
box 10
Canyon de Chelly National Monument mc1680-1681
1959
Physical Description: twenty four negatives
box 12
Glacier National Park, colonial algae (rocks)
undated
box 11
Bessie [Cly] at loom mc1513
1961
Series XV: Europe
circa 1970s
Physical Description: 11 items
Scope and Contents
Images of Europe
box 4
Wetzlar, Germany [slides] mc0794-817
1972
box 4
Heidelberg Castle, Germany [slides] mc0818-829
1972
box 4
Kelsterbach, Germany [slides] mc0830-877
1972
box 4
Lucern, St. Niklausen, Switzerland [slides] mc0878-925
1973
box 4
Zermatt, Saas Fee, Switzerland [slides] mc0926-949
1972
box 4
Schweiz, Switzerland [slides] mc0950-961
1972
box 4
Heidelberg Castle, Germany [slides] mc0962-973
1972
box 4
Schwartzwald, Germany [slides] mc0974-997
1972
box 4
Wetzlar, Germany [slides] mc0998-1021
1972
box 9, box 11
Matterhorn, Switzerland [six copies] mc1465
undated
box 11
Matterhorn, with greenery mc1520
undated
Physical Description: four photographs
Series XVI: Canada
1969
Physical Description: 8 items
Scope and Contents
Images of Canada
box 5
Banff, Alberta, Canadian Rockies [slides] mc1106-1161
1969
Physical Description: 56 color slides
box 5
Lake Louise, Banff, Alberta, Canada [slides] mc1162-1185
1969
Physical Description: 24 color slides
box 5
Jasper, Alberta, Canada [slides] mc1186-1208
1969
box 5
Totem poles, Vancouver, Canada [slides] mc1209-1218
1969
box 5
Jasper, Alberta, Canada [slides] mc1219-1228
1969
box 5
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [slides] mc1229-1239
1969
box 5
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada [slides] mc1240-1261
1969
box 5
Buchart Garden, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada [slides] mc1257-1261
1969
Series XVII: Portraits and Objects
1870-1960; undated
Scope and Contents
This series contains images of camera and film equipment; and portraits mostly of naval captains, and newspaper publishers
and editors.
box 1
Tiburcio Vásquez portrait [four copies] mc0054
circa 1870s
box 1
portrait of Mrs. Maria Vasquez, 105 years old shown threading an embroidery needle [three copies] mc0055
undated
box 1
image of graflex camera mc0082
February 4, 1955
box 1
images of Hubert McClain with camera equipment mc0083-85
April 1966
Physical Description: three photographs
box 1
images of camera equipment mc0086-87
October 1969
Physical Description: two photographs
box 1
home interior, sink with dresser mc0118
undated
box 1
machinery? mc0119
undated
box 6
Portrait- Captain Norman Battleship Iowa US Navy
undated
Physical Description: three photograph
box 6
Portrait- publisher of Signal Hill Tribune
1946
box 6
Portrait- Muriel Barnet Beadle, editor "Her Mirror"
undated
box 6
Portrait- Ed Bramble Long Beach Chamber of Commerce
undated
box 6
Virgil Pinkley, publisher of LA Mirror
undated
box 6
Katherine Kinbrough, lecturer
undated
box 9
"Mag at Work"J.L. O'Donnell mc1481
undated
box 12
camera equipment
1958; undated
Physical Description: six photographs
Series XVIII: Nature
1930-1959; undated
Scope and Contents
this series contains images where it is undetermined where the photograph was taken.
box 1
woman and a child holding hands in a park mc0120
undated
box 9
morning fog along the coast mc1480
undated
box 9, box 11
snow covered mountain with foliage [three copies] mc1468
undated
box 9, box 11
snow covered mountain [two copies] mc1467, mc1517
undated
box 9
mountain range [three copies] mc1470
undated
box 12
mountain range
1959; undated
Physical Description: three photographs
box 10
McClain with camera at bridge mc1557
circa 1930s-1940s
Physical Description: color transparency
box 10
two women pointing at mountains from a bridge mc1558
1940s
Physical Description: color transparency
box 10
fossil algae mc1676
July 1959
Physical Description: one color transparency; one negative
box 10
insects on rose mc1678
undated
Physical Description: two negatives
box 12
man standing near rock formations
undated
box 11
flowers mc1500-1503, 1506
undated
Physical Description: four photographs
box 11
Morning Light [trees] mc1505
undated
Series XIX: Coachella Valley
1949-1950; undated
Physical Description: twenty nine photographs
Scope and Contents
Contains clippings, photographs, and fact sheets regarding dates, and date production in the Coachella Valley in Southern
California.
Separated Materials
clippings are located in box 11.