Physical Description:
1.0 linear ft.
Scope and content
Subseries 1, Photographs and photo-albums, comprises photographs associated with the Highland Park Ebell Club.
18:1 is a small (5 x 3.75 inch) photograph album containing portraits of Ebell club namesake Adrian Ebell, his wife, and eight
others, five of them unmarried young women, possibly circa 1870 (1868 written in faint pencil on blank first page); the album
may be a memento of one of the educational tours for young ladies Adrian Ebell was known for arranging.
18:2 contains color photographs taken in 1984 of past Ebell Club members' houses in Highland Park; a portrait and obituary
of a deceased club member; and two images without a clear connection to the HP Ebell Club.
18:3 Group portraits, consists of 6 formal black and white photographic portraits of Ebell club members, circa 1950s.
18:4 Judson photographs album, 1914-1918, consists of over 200 black and white photographs primarily documenting outdoor excursions
of Louise Judson/Judson family at a wide variety of sites around Southern California. While the photographs have no clear
and definite connection to the Ebell Club, several surnames (and one complete name) of individuals identified (including the
Judsons) in photographs appear in Club rosters during the period; as well, a number of photographs depict Highland Park locations
such as the Arroyo Seco. The photographs have two notable emphases: outdoor recreation at scenic natural sites, and a focused
interest in engineered features of landscape including dams, aquaducts, mountain roads, bridges, and so on. In all, the photographs
offer a candid and wide-ranging window into auto-tourism and middle class family sociability in the period. Also included
are photographs dated January 1918 depicting soldiers marching down a main street of what may be Highland Park; also, photographs
of the Tournament of Roses Parade from 1915.
18:5 Member photographs album, 1908-1935, consists of 40 individual black and white portraits of Ebell Club officers, charter
members, and others.
Oversize folder 3 Photo of members at 25th Birthday Anniversay Breakfast, October 2, 1928.