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Repository:
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA
91108
Phone: 626-405-2180
Email: jwatts@huntington.org
Title: Collection of Panoramic
Photographs.
Dates: 1851-1995
Dates: (bulk 1920s-1930s)
Quantity: 18.86 linear
feet
Abstract: The Huntington Library's Collection of
Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1995, depicts a wide variety of subjects and provides an
important resource for the visual history of the United States, with a particular
emphasis on California and the American West. Subjects include landscapes, group
portraits, and miscellaneous views. The collection also contains photographs by some of
the better known photographers and photographic firms of the first part of the twentieth
century. Photographers and publishers represented in the collection include Charles Z.
Bailey; Bailey and Ramsey; Bryant Studio; Bunnell Photo Shop; California Panorama
Company; Bell Clements; Fay Foto Service; R. J. Gallagher; George. R. Lawrence Company;
J.D. Givens; Gordon Panoramic Photo Company; Griffith Photo; Harris Photographic
Company; Karen Halverson; George W. Hazard; L. M. Hermance; Hiller; Hughes Photos; B.
Isensee; William Henry Jackson; I. L. Maduro; Mayhart Studio; C. R. Nock; Panorama
Publishing Company; Pettit's Studio; Photo News Service; C. C. Pierce; A.C. Pillsbury;
Pillsbury Picture Company; Prince Photo; G. H. Rice; H.H. Rideout; Sanford and Black
Photo News Service; Thompson; O.A. Tunnell; H.A. Varble; Miles F. Weaver; and West Coast
Art Company.
Identification: photPAN
Language of Material: English
This finding aid brings together information about the Huntington’s panoramic
photographs. These images have been collected by or donated to the Huntington over the
course of many years.
The Huntington Library's Collection of Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1995, contains 117
panoramas that depict a wide variety of subjects and provide an important resource for
the visual history of the United States, with a particular emphasis on California and
the American West. Subjects include landscapes, group portraits, and miscellaneous
views. The landscapes include views of Los Angeles and vicinity (including central Los
Angeles, Hollywood, East Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Mount Lowe); views of San Francisco
(including balloon views of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire created by the
George R. Lawrence Company); miscellaneous landscapes (including Yosemite Falls;
Tehachapi Loop; Los Gatos, California; Camp Bowie, Texas; Big Bear Lake in the San
Bernardino Mountains; Furnace Creek in Death Valley; Hoover Dam; Thermopolis, Wyoming;
and unidentified views); views of industry (including the Newport News shipyard and the
Venice-Del Rey oil fields); desert and mining towns (including Virginia City, Nevada;
Bisbee, Arizona; and Ouray, Colorado); the Panama Canal; and Norris Dam (Tennessee). The
group portraits include clubs; employees; school children; professional organizations;
military personnel; pageant and play participants (including two portraits of casts of
the Mission Play); birthday parties; and miscellaneous groups. The miscellaneous views
include views of the Ascot Park Racetrack in Gardena, California; a revival held by
Aimee Semple McPherson in Balboa Park (San Diego); opening ceremonies of the 1932 Los
Angeles Olympics; and the raising of the U.S.S. Battleship Maine in Havana Harbor.
The collection also contains photographs by some of the better known photographers and
photographic firms of the first part of the twentieth century. Photographers and
publishers represented in the collection include Charles Z. Bailey; Bailey and Ramsey;
Bryant Studio; Bunnell Photo Shop; California Panorama Company; Bell Clements; Fay Foto
Service; R.J. Gallagher; George. R. Lawrence Company; J.D. Givens; Gordon Panoramic
Photo Company; Griffith Photo; Harris Photographic Company; Karen Halverson; George W.
Hazard; L. M. Hermance; Hiller; Hughes Photos; B. Isensee; William Henry Jackson; I.L.
Maduro; Mayhart Studio; C.R. Nock; Panorama Publishing Company; Pettit's Studio; Photo
News Service; C.C. Pierce; A.C. Pillsbury; Pillsbury Picture Company; Prince Photo; G.H.
Rice; H.H. Rideout; Sanford and Black Photo News Service; Thompson; O.A. Tunnell; H.A.
Varble; Miles F. Weaver; and West Coast Art Company.
Titles in brackets are supplied; otherwise all titles come from the photographs
themselves.
The collection is arranged broadly by subject as follows: landscape; group portraits;
and miscellaneous. It is further subdivided by subject within each broad category.
See also:
Finding aid for
Title:
Collection of California and Southern
California Panoramic Negatives,
Huntington Library
Photo Archives.
photCL 410,
Title:
Photographs: Raising of the U.S.S. Maine in
Havana Harbor, Cuba,
1912, Huntington Library
Photo Archives.
Identifier/Call Number: photCL 107,
Title:
Henry E. Huntington Gardens and
Residence Panoramas, 1910s-1920s,
Huntington
Library Photo Archives.
This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Bailey, Charles Z.
Clements, Bell.
Gallagher, R. J., photographer.
Givens, J. D. (James David), b.
1893.
Halverson, Karen, 1941-
Hazard, George Washington,
1842-1914.
Hermance, L. M.
Jackson, William Henry,
1843-1942.
Maduro, I. L.
McPherson, Aimee Semple,
1890-1944--Photographs.
Nock, C. R.
Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.),
1861-1946.
Pillsbury, Arthur C. (Arthur
Clarence).
Rendall, S. A.--Photographs.
Rice, G. H.
Tunnell, O. A.
Varble, H. A.
Weaver, M. F. (Miles F.),
1879-1932.
Alaska Yukon Club--Photographs.
Ancon Hospital (Ancon, Ancon,
Panama)--Photographs.
Ascot Park (Gardena,
Calif.)--Photographs.
Bailey and Ramsey.
Bryant Studio.
Bunnell Photo Shop.
California Panorama Company.
Drama League of
America--Photographs.
Fay Foto Service (Boston,
Mass.).
Gamut Club (Los Angeles,
Calif.)--Photographs.
Geo. R. Lawrence Co.
Gordon Panoramic Photo Company.
Grand Army of the Republic. John F.
Godfrey Post (Pasadena, Calif.)--Photographs.
Griffith Phot.
Harris Photographic Company.
Hollywood Hotel (Hollywood, Los Angeles,
Calif.)--Photographs.
Hughes Photos.
Keystone Cirkut Foto Company
Maine
(Battleship)--Photographs.
Mayhart Studio.
Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel,
Calif.)--Photographs.
Mount Lowe
Railway--Photographs.
Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad
Co.--Photographs.
Native Sons of the Golden
West--Photographs.
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
Company--Photographs.
Olympic Games (10th : 1932 : Los Angeles,
Calif.)--Photographs.
Pacific Electric Railway
Company--Employees--Photographs.
Panorama Publishing Company.
Pasadena (Calif.). Police
Dept.--Photographs.
Pettit's Studio.
Phi Sigma Kappa--Photographs.
Photo News Service.
Pillsbury Picture Company.
Prince Photo.
Raymond Hotel (Pasadena,
Calif.)--Photographs.
H.H. Rideout (Firm : Washington,
D.C.).
Sanford and Black Photo News
Service.
Southern Pacific Railroad
Company.
Universal City
Studios--Photographs.
Universal Film Manufacturing
Company--Employees--Photographs.
West Coast Art Co.
Women's City Club of Los
Angeles--Photographs.
Balboa Park (San Diego,
Calif.)--Photographs.
Belvedere Gardens (Los Angeles,
Calif.)--Photographs.
Big Bear Lake
(Calif.)--Photographs.
Bisbee (Ariz.)--Photographs.
Camp Bowie (Fort Worth,
Tex.)--Photographs.
Death Valley (Calif. and
Nev.)--Photographs.
Gaillard Cut
(Panama)--Photographs.
Gatun Dam
(Panama)--Photographs.
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and
Nev.)--Photographs.
Los Gatos
(Calif.)--Photographs.
Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County,
Calif.)--Photographs.
Miraflores Locks
(Panama)--Photographs.
Norris Dam
(Tenn.)--Photographs.
Ouray (Colo.)--Photographs.
Panama Canal
(Panama)--Photographs.
San Francisco--Photographs.
Thermopolis
(Wyo.)--Photographs.
Virginia City
(Nev.)--Photographs.
Yosemite National Park
(Calif.)--Photographs.
Beauty contests--California--Ocean
Park--Photographs.
Beauty contests--California--Redondo
Beach--Photographs.
Birthday
parties--California--Photographs.
Business districts--California--Los
Angeles--Photographs.
Canals--Panama--Design and
construction--Photographs.
Clubs--California--Los
Angeles--Photographs.
Congresses and conventions--Lowe, Mount (Los
Angeles County, Calif.)--Photographs.
Country
clubs--California--Pasadena--Photographs.
Dairy
farms--California--Photographs.
Dam
construction--Tennessee--Photographs.
Delegations--California--1912--Photographs.
Harbors--Photographs.
High school students--California--Los
Angeles--Photographs.
Historic sites--California--Los Angeles
County--Photographs.
Hotels--Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County,
Calif.)--Photographs.
Junior high school
students--California--Pasadena--Photographs.
Meetings--California--Los
Angeles--Photographs.
Meetings--Ulster County
(N.Y.)--Photographs.
Meetings--Washington
(D.C.)--Photographs.
Mining camps--Photographs.
Nurses--Texas--Photographs.
Oil wells--California--Venice (Los Angeles,
Calif.)--Photographs.
Pageants--California--San
Gabriel--Photographs.
Parks--Photographs.
Picnicking--California--Photographs.
Railroad yards--California--Los
Angeles--Photographs.
Railroads--Track--California--Tehachapi
Mountains--Photographs.
Real estate development--California--Los
Angeles--Photographs.
San Francisco Earthquake, Calif.,
1906--Photographs.
School children--California--Eagle Rock (Los
Angeles, Calif.)--Photographs.
School
children--California--Pasadena--Photographs.
Schools--California--Eagle Rock (Los
Angeles, Calif.)--Photographs.
Schools--California--Pasadena--Photographs.
Schools--California--Santa
Monica--Photographs.
Shipyards--Photographs.
Soldiers--California--Photographs.
Valleys--Photographs.
Panoramas.
Portraits.
Access is granted to qualified researchers and by appointment.
All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted in writing to the
Curator of Photographs. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Huntington
as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of
the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
photPAN, Collection of Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1995.
Acquired from James B. Barnes, August 1, 1947; Mark A. Chapman, November 11, 1949;
Collector's Council, January 2003; Dawson's, April 6, 1979 and September 10, 1979; Ben
Field, March 9, 1956; Mrs. Grace M. Grafton, 1996; Barbara Greer, January 1987; Hardy,
1946; Ernest and Elsie Heatherington, 2007; Jack Kemble, July 1987; Robert Tyler Lee;
Michael Harrison McCandless, 2002?; McLaughlin, July 13, 1946; James B. McNair, May 5,
1956; Peter Palmquist; H.E. Roberts; Herman Smith, May 7, 1974; Charles Staufenberg,
2008; Paul Taylor, September 5, 1991; Marifrances Trivelli, September 13, 2001; Julia A.
Vinock.
The photographs were flattened and encapsulated by the Huntington Library Preservation
Department between 1988 and 2005.
Physical Characteristics or Technical Requirements
Arrangements for viewing panoramas must be made with the Curator of Photographs.
A copy print of William Henry Jackson's Raymond Hotel panorama is available for
study.