Will H. Thrall Photographs: Finding Aid

Prints (Items 1-323)

San Gabriel Mountains

Alder Creek Area

Lester Loomis family at Loomis cabin on Alder Creek, built 1913 (2 different views, 1 enlargement)

Loomis cabin, c. 1925. Now main building of Alhambra Girl Scouts.

Tom Clark cabin, later part of Loomis Ranch buildings. Photo shows Lester Loomis family, 1913, their first summer on Alder Creek. Neg on file.

Old gold arrastra at Loomis Mine on Alder Creek

Monte Cristo mine buildings up the mountain on east side of Mill Creek. Neg on file.

Granite monuments of Mount Pacifico (2 different views)

Alder Creek Area: Snapshots

L. R. Tuttle on summit of Mount Pacifico

High point

Big pine on summit

Grove of young cedars around Sheep Springs. (2 prints. Neg on file.)

Sheep Springs Camp

Sheep Spring

Cliff on which Sierra Club climbs

Angeles Crest Highway: Snow scenes

Near Winston Spring, 1941

Near Mount Waterman chair lift, 1945

Up Mount Lukens from Angeles Crest Highway

Looking west to Angeles Crest Highway from Mount Waterman summit (snapshot)

Arroyo Seco Area

Old Pasadena Hunt Club cabin on Arroyo. Partially destroyed by flood of Mar. 2, 1938. Neg on file.

Switzer’s Camp, 1890 (these buildings destroyed in 1896 forest fire); 2 copies (enlargement better). Negative on file.

Switzer’s Camp recreation room, “The Rock Room,” 1914

“The Rock Room” in modern times

Cabin built by Rob Waterman 1897, at Maple Flats, ¾ mile above Switzer’s (Charles and Roy Quitzow in photo)

Cabin by the trail at Dawn Mine, Millard Canyon. Neg on file.

First ranger station on Arroyo Seco, Forks of Arroyo and Dark Canyon. Neg on file.

Arroyo Seco Guard Station, U. S. Forest Service. (Frank Begue in photo)

3 unidentified landscape views

Cabin at Switzer’s, c. 1906

Cottage on cliffs at Switzer’s

Arroyo Seco Area: Snapshots

Start of rock climb to summit of Strawberry Peak

About 1/3 way up

Strawberry Peak marker

Strawberry Peak from the West (double photo)

Cliffs of Strawberry Peak from Colby-Red Box Trail

Along the trail in Upper Arroyo Seco

Near Dawn Mine in Millard Canyon

On Millard Canyon Trail

Rosalind on Arroyo Seco Trail ( 4 views, 1 dupe.) Negs for c, d.

1938 flood photos: Switzerland and along Angeles Crest Highway, beginning at Dalton Flood Control Dam (snapshots)

Foothill Bridge, San Gabriel River crossing

Washout on Angeles Crest Highway

Bulldozer pushing temporary road through slide on Angeles Crest

Tree floating down flood caught this cabin.

Car after being washed ½ mile

Angeles Crest Highway at Switzerland junction

“A smooth driveway once went past these cabins at Switzerland.”

Cabins at Switzerland

Where three cabins originally stood

Marooned party hiking to town from Switzerland

After the 1938 flood

West of Rose Bowl parking lot. Neg on file.

Millard Canyon area. Negs on file.

Big Pines area and Blue Ridge Range

Big Pines County Camp

Swartout Valley Lodge. Winter scenes, 1938.

Skiing scenes, Big Pines

Tobogganing at Big Pines

Skaters at Big Pines

Skating rink at main camp

Dog teams, 1937

Snow on Mt. Baden Powell, 1933

Snow-covered Blue Ridge, 1933

Table Mountain with snow

Scene from lower Table Mountain looking across Mojave Desert

Frozen mist on pine tree (2 different views; 1 duplicate)

Horseback party on the Blue Ridge, south of Big Pines Playground

Upper Prairie Fork and Blue Ridge Range from Columbine Spring. Area terribly burned in 1953 fire.

Trails Magazine trophy, Big Pines Trail Marathon, 1938

Big Pines Marathon winners, 1934-35, 1938

Big Santa Anita Canyon

The Hermit of Big Santa Anita by the stone cabin he built in 1898 (original and enlargement). Neg on file.

Fern Lodge, built 1916. Neg on file.

Four views of canyon near Fern Lodge after 1938 flood

Roberts Camp, Feb. 1, 1923. Destroyed by flood Mar. 2, 1938 (2 different views, duplicate of 93). Neg on file for 93.

Sturtevant Camp, 1893. (Identified on verso as original Switzer’s Camp before any permanent buildings were built.) Neg on file.

Sturtevant Camp, store and dining room, built 1898. Neg on file.

Sturtevant Camp, showing log cabin built for ranger station in 1903. Also shows women playing tennis. Neg on file.

William Sturtevant at pack train corrals, near foot of Sierra Madre-Mount Wilson Trails, c. 1905

U. S. Forestry Guard Station, Sturtevant Camp, built by Louis Newcomb in 1903

U. S. Forestry Station, Sturtevant Camp, 1903. Neg on file.

Original Hoegee’s Camp (later Camp Le Roy, then Camp Ivy)

Big Santa Anita Dam. Neg: Turner 2833.

Big Tujunga area and Vasquez Canyon

Fox Creek Falls, a branch of the Big Tujunga

Grizzly Flat cabin in Vasquez Canyon

Old cabin at Hansen Lodge, built 1910. Dr. Homer Hansen’s 1st home in Big Tujunga Canyon

Hansen Lodge, Big Tujunga Canyon just below the dam. Built 1925 by Dr. Homer A. Hansen

Hoyt’s Ranch, second cabin built 1888; Silas Hoyt in doorway. (Original and enlargement). Neg on file.

Silas Hoyt Cabin built 1888 at Vasquez Canyon and the Big Tujunga (original and enlargement). Neg on file.

(a,b) Silas Hoyt cabins, 1888 and 1890. Neg on file.

Big Tujunga area and Vasquez Canyon: Snapshots

Across Big Tujunga

[Big Tujunga Narrows Bridge?]

2 views of Hoyt cabin after 1938 flood

Grizzly Flat cabin on Vasquez Canyon Trail

Log cabin, Mill Creek marble quarry, 1922 (prints and duplicate

Upper part of High Creek Falls, branch of Mill Creek (2 views)

Fox Creek Falls

Looking down canyon from trail

Looking from canyon at little falls

Browns Flat

Landscape (2 different views)

Sentinel pines on NW edge of Browns Flat

Old log cabin built by John Bradford Camp about 1898 (1 print and duplicate)

At big yellow pine (2 copies)

“Browns Flat and East” (2 different snapshots). Negs on file.

Charlton Flat-Chilao back country

Small panorama of Chilao landscape. (Photo by Arthur Carter.) Neg on file.

Junction of Chilao Canyon with East Fork of Alder Creek

Four men on hunting trip at Chilao, c. 1905

Chilao Gorge, 1939

Chilao Creek Gorge between Charlton Flat and Chilao playgrounds, 1939

Robert G. Cleland perched on cliff just east of Buckhorn Flat, c. 1902-03

On ridge overlooking Charlton Flat. Inspection trip, summer 1927

Rev. Edward Rankin on trail to Squaw Camp (print and duplicate)

Federal Forestry cabin at Squaw Camp above Sulphur Spring

Pratt cabin at Squaw Camp. Built 1919.

Outhouse, Squaw Camp

George Islip Cabin (later O’Melveny’s)

Louis Newcomb’s 1st cabin, probably rebuilt from ruins of Tiburcio Vasquez cabin

Group with guns posed outside 1st Newcomb cabin, c. 1900 (large print and small duplicate)

2nd Louis Newcomb cabin, built 1910 (2 different views)

Louis Newcomb and deer (print and duplicate)

Cabin on West Chilao Flat. Walls built 1912. Completed 1915-16.

2nd cabin on Charlton Flat, built 1908 (pelts hanging on exterior wall)

Charlton Flat Ranger Station built 1901-02

Jess Sevier and Bill Bacon at Ranger Station on Pine Flat (Charlton Flat), which they built with help of Louis Newcomb and Jack Slade in 1902

Picnic area, Charlton Flat Ranger Station, in snow (2 different views)

Barley Flats in snow, 1932

Barley Flat

Horse Flat

Head of Cooper Canyon, 1 mile from Angeles Crest

Cabin ruins and flat in Cooper Canyon

Falls of Cooper Canyon, near Buckhorn Flat

Devils Hole at head of Little Rock Creek

Falls of Devils Gulch at lower end of San Gabriel-East Fork Gulch

Down Upper Gorge of Little Rock Creek from Devils Hole

Among great granite monuments of the Devils Hole

Towering cliffs (with duplicate print)

Looking East from Devils Hole Grade

LeRoy Tuttle on thumb of Fist Rocks, East Waterman Ridge

Little falls just north of Twin Peaks trail and SW of Mt. Waterman

Hideout of Tiburcio Vasquez

Mt. Gleason Lookout Tower

Charlton Flat-Chilao back country: Snapshots

Newcomb cabin, Chilao, 1930

Chilao campground

Chilao end of Chilao Canyon Gorge. (Neg on file)

Chilao Gorge (3 views). Negs on file: 158a, c.

Looking across East Fork of Alder Creek (2 views). Neg on file: 159a.

Heavy forest near Kratka Ridge

Upper Flat in Cooper Canyon

Falls of Cooper Canyon

Triple incense cedar by trail in Cooper Canyon

Cooper Canyon. Along the trails between Upper Flat and log cabin ruin

Old Buckhorn Flat campground in 1916

Buckhorn Flat Campground

Buckhorn Canyon Trail

Buckhorn

Old camp at Cloudburst Canyon

On East Mount Waterman Ridge

Along trail just east of Mount Waterman. Neg on file.

Great crag on ridge west of Mount Waterman

Great crag from the east. Neg on file.

On East Waterman Ridge overlooking Lockheed ski area. Neg on file.

East Waterman Ridge

Winiton Spring, West Waterman Ridge. Neg on file.

West Waterman Ridge

West Waterman Ridge

Mount Waterman: North Peak from South Peak, on high point. Neg on file.

On top of Mount Waterman. Neg on file.

Crystal Lake high country

Crystal Lake

Crystal Lake at near high water level (2 different views)

A glimpse of Crystal Lake in new county park

Crystal Lake Flats, 1938 (2 different views)

Looking from Castle Crags, c. 1910

Birdseye view of Crystal Lake Playground from Mt. Islip-Mt. Hawkins saddle (2 prints)

Crystal Lake, looking toward East Flat (2 views; 1 in color)

Yucca bloom, Crystal Lake Playground. 15 feet tall, 8 feet of blossom

Yellow pine, 21 feet 10 inches around, over 200 feet tall. In middle of West Flat, Crystal Lake Playground. Badly burned in 1919 fire. Died a few years later.

Outdoor theater and log cabin station in Crystal Lake Playground, 1937

Crystal Bar Ranch Boys (postcard)

Wawona Cabin in Wawona Basin, Crystal Lake Playground. Built by Occidental College in 1908. (3 different views)

Occidental students at Wawona Cabin, 1909 (2 different prints; students identified on verso)

Two women students and guide (?) at cabin, 1909

Wawona Cabin after 1938 flood (3 views; plus 1 snapshot taken before flood)

Occidental monument on Mount Islip, 1909

Cornelius Potter, owner of Little Rincon, who pastured cattle in Crystal Lake area in 1870s.

Close-up of Lily Spring Campground

Big white firs at Lily Spring, between Mt. Hawkins and Throop Peak

Two different views of fire on Mount Islip (then called Sister Elsie Peak), September 13, 1913; taken from Echo Mountain with telephoto camera

Crystal Lake high country: Snapshots

On Mount Islip trail. Neg on file.

Summit of Mount Islip

Crystal Lake Playground from Mount Islip saddle

Little Jimmy campground

Towards North Baldy from Little Jimmy

Crystal Lake

Crystal Lake at low water. Neg on file.

Old spring camp, east end of Crystal Lake Playground. Neg on file.

West Flat, Crystal Lake Park. Neg on file.

East end of Crystal Lake Park. Neg on file.

Beautiful forest of Crystal Lake Park

Monster yellow pine at Crystal Lake; burned in 1919 fire. Neg on file. (Large format print: 188.)

Deer Flat, Crystal Lake Park. Neg on file.

Looking across the meadow at site of Jack’s cabin, Crystal Lake. Neg on file.

Negley-Alexander cabin at Crystal Lake. Neg on file.

Wawona Cabin, Crystal Lake. Neg on file.

Wawona before 1938

Wawona after moved 300 feet and turned in opposite direction

Devils Punchbowl: Snapshots

West Fork of Holcomb Creek, from South end of Punch Bowl. Neg on file.

Punch Bowl looking West. Neg on file.

Neg on file.

Negs on file.

On trail, South Fork to Holcomb Canyon. Neg on file.

Looking across Holcomb Canyon to south end of Punch Bowl. Neg on file.

Neg on file.

Up Sand Canyon. Punch Bowl in background. Neg on file.

Negs on file.

Eaton Canyon Snapshots

Building Devil’s Gate Dam

Middle Eaton Canyon between the gorges. Neg on file.

Upper Falls in Eaton Canyon Gorge. Neg on file.

Boulder Flat Campground in Eaton Canyon. Neg on file.

A narrows in Upper Eaton Canyon. Neg on file.

Ed Fletcher, Thrall, Bob Bickley, W. H. Milligan on a little flat in Upper Eaton Canyon (postcard)

Thrall, Bickley, and Milligan in Eaton Canyon (postcard)

El Prieto Canyon

Owen and Jason Brown at cabin of sister (Ruth Brown Thompson), c. 1877 or 1878. Jarvis photo. Neg and copy neg on file.

Jason, John, Jr., and Owen Brown at “Brown Boys’ Cabin,” south slope of Brown Mountain. Jarvis photo. Neg and copy neg on file.

Owen and Jason Brown at their cabin. Copy neg on file.

Fish Canyon

Lower falls, 150 feet high

Upper Falls, about 30 feet high. About 4 miles by trail above 1st and biggest falls

Fish Canyon: Snapshots

Herb and Pauline Rolf and Rosalind Thrall at Lower Fish Canyon (also a duplicate)

Herb Rolf , Will Thrall, and Rosalind Thrall at lower part of big falls

Upper part of Fish Canyon Falls

Falls from high trail, 1941

Sloan’s cabin, 1941

Unidentified cabin [Sloane’s?]

Bridge at Sloane’s cabin

Lytle Creek: Snapshots

North Fork, 1914. Neg on file.

North Fork

North Fork before flood of 1938. Neg on file for 264a.

Lytle Creek

Road to Glenn Ranch. Neg on file.

Stockton Flat

Mount San Antonio (“Old Baldy”)

Mount San Antonio and Ontario Peak from valley near Upland

Miners’ cabins at the Banks Mine. Note on envelope: Copied from Land of Sunshine. Neg on file.

Three of the five cabins at Banks Mine (later called the Hocumac) on East San Antonio Divide. First cabin built early 1860s; last burned 1932

Hydraulic mining at Banks Mine, situated 3 ½ miles east of Mount San Antonio. “Copied from Land of Sunshine.” Neg on file.

Big dry washer at Banks Mine, used in 1896; said to be biggest ever used. Neg on file.

Mule team on trail to Banks cabin

On Bear Flat Narrows trail to Mount San Antonio

Ski Hill on west slope of Mount San Antonio

Sierra Club skiers nearing summit of Mount San Antonio, 10,080 feet high

William B. Dewey, proprietor of Baldy Summit Inn, with supplies for camp (photo taken at Baldy Summit Hotel, original and enlargement). Neg on file.

William Dewey, age 70 (snapshot). Neg on file.

Baldy Summit Inn, 1912; one of two permanent buildings (10,000 feet elevation). Neg on file.

Part of Baldy Summit Inn (burned Spring 1913). Neg on file.

Camp at Camp Baldy.

Spring at the mine, San Antonio-Lytle Creek Divide.

Mount San Antonio (“Old Baldy”): Snapshots

Camp Baldy Lodge, c. 1915

Along the Pinnacles, south of San Antonio Summit

Mount San Antonio from Glendora-San Gabriel Road

Mount San Antonio from Harwood Lodge (Sierra Club headquarters)

Ski mountaineers’ cabin

Views from Sierra Club ski lodge

Ruins of kitchen-dining room of Gold Ridge Lodge (original and enlargement)

Miner’s cabin (with Wilson, Smith, and Fluchey)

Near the summit

Thrall setting tablet on summit, 1920. Neg on file.

Mount Williamson and Pallett Mountain

Mount Williamson, Southern cliffs, 1950

Views, with notes on verso referring to Will Thrall Peak. Note by photographer (C. C. Vernon) points out that the peak is actually Pallett Mountain. Error is due to confusion that existed as to which summit on Pleasant View Ridge would be officially named “Will Thrall Peak.”

Snapshot of South Slope

Moss Spring on Pleasant View Ridge. (2 different views)

Mount Wilson

Mount Wilson in snow, 1906 (original and 2 duplicates). Neg on file.

Party on old Altadena-Mount Wilson Trail before it was widened for the toll road. Neg on file.

Old trading post, ¼ Way House on Sierra Madre-Mount Wilson Trail

First Half Way House (1894) on Mount Wilson Trail (later the toll road). Neg filed.

George Schneider’s Half-way house on Mt. Wilson Toll Road (1897). Neg on file.

Old toll road near summit. Shows Mount Wilson stage and Opid’s pack train. Neg on file.

Old cabin at Orchard Camp. Built by Don Benito Wilson as part of construction camp on Sierra Madre-Mount Wilson Trail, 1864 (2 views and 1 duplicate). Neg.

One of buildings of Don Benito Wilson’s construction camp. (Original and enlargement). Photo by W. D. Medill, c. 1895. Neg on file.

Mount Wilson Toll House. Neg on file.

First load of lumber for Mount Wilson Hotel, 1905

First Mount Wilson Hotel. Built 1905; burned Mar. 25, 1913. Neg on file.

Mount Wilson Hotel, 1937. Neg on file.

Buck deer at Mount Wilson Hotel

Ruins of first cabins on Mount Wilson (Strain’s Camp). Neg on file.

Remains of first cabins on Mount Wilson (Strain’s Camp), 1935

Martin’s Camp, c. 1900. On old Toll Road about a mile below summit of Mount Wilson. (Originally Pete Stein’s Camp, started 1888). Neg on file.

Investigating party from Harvard on Sierra Madre-Mount Wilson Trail in 1888. Neg on file.

Old casino at Mount Wilson used for preliminary astronomical work 1903-1904. (3¼-inch telescope first used by George Ellery Hale.)

Pack train Mount Wilson, 1904, packing material and supplies for first Carnegie development

Harvard Observatory on Signal Point, Mt. Wilson, winter of 1889-90. Neg on file.

Old Harvard Observatory 1889. Neg on file.

Carnegie Observatory on Mount Wilson. Photo shows West Fork of the San Gabriel, Barley Flat, Mount Lawler, Big Tujunga Canyon, Mount Gleason. Road is old forestry road to Barley Flats. Neg on file.

Construction of pier for 100-inch Hooker Telescope, Mount Wilson, 1912

Mount Wilson Observatory

Prints (Items 324-714)

San Gabriel Mountains

San Antonio Canyon

Warren Gale’s 2,000 angora goats which Forest Service hired to clear fire breaks of San Antonio Canyon, 1900-1910

Warren Gale’s angora goats. Print and snapshot duplicate. Neg on file.

First hotel, San Antonio Canyon (postcard)

Main building of Stoddard’s Camp, 1890s; Mr. Stoddard standing at right

Sanborn’s Camp at Bear Canyon Forks, just back of Camp Baldy Guard Station in the 1890s

Old Pierce Ranch, near mouth of canyon; one of first built in area (original and enlargement). GPN for 329 a.

Toll gate, San Antonio Canyon, c. 1908

Dell’s Camp (later Camp Baldy), one of first three cabins of this camp; built in 1886

Third cabin at Dell’s; probably built c. 1890 (later Johnson’s cabin)

San Antonio Canyon Mirror Lake, just over low ridge from Dell’s Camp. Positive print and neg.

Yucca garden near Camp Baldy (2 prints; 1 in color)

Probably Bradley cabin in Upper San Antonio Canyon, c. 1 ½ miles above Camp Baldy. GPN.

Kitchen and dining room at Gold Ridge Mine above San Antonio Falls, 1893

Cabin at John Allison Mine, ½ mile up Ice House Canyon; built in 1890s

Headquarters of Twin Spruce Club in Bear Canyon, c. 1906

Dagger Point Cabin, Kappa Delta Fraternity, Pomona. Built 1909, burned 1913; stood back of Ranger Station, Bear and San Antonio Canyons. (Original print and enlargement. GPN for 339a.)

Dagger Point Cabin in snow. GPN.

Henry Dalker cabin, near mouth of Ice House Canyon. GPN.

John Kelly’s cabin in 1905; Ontario Peak

The Big Spruce

San Antonio ski hut of Ski Mountaineers

Part of 800-foot drop of Vivian Creek Falls

San Antonio Falls. 1 mile above Snow Crest Camp

San Antonio Canyon: Snapshots

In envelope labeled Sand and Ice House Canyons

Looking SE across the Soledad at Sand Canyon

Great rock slide in Ice House Canyon

Ruins of dining room-kitchen of Gold Dollar Mine

Bear Canyon views

Bear Canyon “bath tubs”

Bear Canyon in winter (postcard)

Kelly’s camp in snow, March 19, 1932

Snow Crest Camp (Snapshot and 4 postcards)

Cabin in snow (postcard)

Views of San Antonio Canyon after flood of March 2, 1938

Looking across, East

Looking up what was highway from in front of Eleven Oaks to Bear Canyon Resort

Big Spruce Cabin, downstream after flood

Big Spruce Cabin upstream after flood

Looking down San Antonio Canyon from Camp Baldy, after flood

San Gabriel Canyon

Entrance to San Gabriel Canyon. “The Bad Man of the San Gabriel, John Knox Portwood, with his burro freighting team at the mouth of San Gabriel Canyon.”

Old store at Camp Rincon Resort started in 1897 by Charles E. Smith. Neg on file.

2 prints of man on horseback. On verso 372a identified as H. D. Briggs, joint owner of Camp Rincon, riding Smith’s horse. On verso 372b identified as Smith. Caption of same photo in J. W. Robinson, The San Gabriels identifies rider as Smith. Neg on file.

Wing Ling, cook at various camps and mines. (original print and enlargement). Neg on file.

Cornelius Potter, 1st settler at Lower Rincon, with his branding iron

“Stuttering McNabb” at Cornelius Potter’s cabins on Lower Rincon; washed away 1938 (Original print and enlargement). Neg on file.

Mock hold-up at 27th crossing stage near Camp Rincon on the San Gabriel. August 3, 1908. Neg on file.

Cold Brook Camp stages coming down the old North Fork Road between Cold Brook and Camp Rincon, early 1900. Neg on file.

First cabin of Creel Club, built 1890 (H. W. O’Melveny photographed on roof). Neg on file.

Creel Club cabin after addition of second story. (Mary Persinger pictured). Neg on file.

CCC camp at Cold Brook before flood of M arch 2, 1938

Main building at Cold Brook Camp in 1904. Neg on file.

Cold Brook Camp before 1938 flood (2 different views)

Cecil Graham Hill hydraulic mine, San Gabriel Canyon, c. 1880. Neg on file.

Miners’ cabins in San Gabriel Canyon during Depression, 1930s

Beautiful steel bridge on San Gabriel Canyon highway near Camp Rincon

Four people photographed with string of fish. Taken at Iron Fork, San Gabriel Canyon, 1943

Covina Outing Club cabin on Bear Creek. (Built in 1906.)

Summer days at Follows Camp (postcard)

Follows Camp, East Fork of San Gabriel, c. 1896

Original building of Follows Camp, built 1891, print and enlargement. Neg on file.

William T. Heaton at mine near Follows camp, c. 1900. Neg on file.

Sedley Peck panning gold at old William Heaton mine. Neg on file.

Old cabin at Heaton Flat Mine in 1890s. Neg on file.

Cabin at Heaton Flat Mine, with Nancy and William Heaton, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Peck, and Cornelia O’Connor (print and duplicate). Neg on file.

Mrs. Walter Peck, Sedley Peck, Mrs. Ralph Follows, unidentified woman

Original Weber’s cabin at Weber’s Camp, Coldwater Canon; destroyed in 1938 flood

A happy group at Recreation Shelter, Weber’s Camp, Coldwater Canyon, in early days. Neg on file.

Delos and “Ma” [Lillian] Colby by the old two-story log cabin at Colby Ranch. Two different views. Neg for 399a.

Two-story log cabin on Colby Ranch built in 1895. (Snapshots and enlargement. Neg on file for 400b.

Close-up view of two-story cabin. (Historic information on verso.)

Stone residence on Colby Ranch. Built 1914; burned 1928. Neg on file.

The Hermitage, home of Joe Argay, on Coldwater Canyon below Colby Ranch; burned Dec. 29, 1937. Neg on file.

Widman log cabin in Coldwater Canyon. One of first cabins in the area (3 different views)

Captain Kidder cabin, on Coldwater Canyon, between Thompson Ranch and Weber’s Camp

Triple Falls of North Fork (Christmas postcard)

Start of Triple Falls at Soldier Creek

Lower Falls on Coldbrook near Diamond Rock

Old Mountain View Cabin on East Fork; built 1878 by William Potter. Neg on file.

Giddings cabin on East Fork, just above Iron Fork; built 1897 (print and enlargement)

Gold miners at old cabin on East Fork

Victoria Silver Mill

Tooch Martin and Henry Walton at Walton’s Mine. Neg on file.

Tooch Martin and Henry Walton examine ore from mine (print and enlargement). Neg on file.

William T. (Tooch) Martin at his Bee Ranch in foothills north of Claremont (print and enlargement). Neg on file.

Trogden’s on Iron Fork; famous fishing headquarters. (2 duplicate copies, 1 dated c. 1908; 1 dated c. 1910.). Neg on file. [People identified on verso 415a.]

Trogden photo on postcard.

Trogden’s, typical mining camp. (Photo 1898)

George Trogden and his cabin on Iron Fork (also dup). Neg on file.

Frank Dawson and George Trogden at Trogden’s cabin. (Cyanotype postcard).

Charles Bander (?), J. T. Gordon (?). Oliver Justice, with mules. (Cyanotype postcard).

Original building; all that remained after flood of 1938.

The first falls on Iron Fork, 1898 (print and enlargement). Neg on file.

Opid’s Camp, 1915. Neg on file.

West Fork Ranger Station, built 1896. Oldest forestry station on the San Gabriel

Old West Fork Ranger Station., 1905. Copy neg on file.

Old Short Cut Canyon Ranger Station on West Fork, built 1900. Neg on file.

Phil Begue and his famous black mule, Jennette, 1900. Neg on file.

Phil Begue and his pack train

First cabin of Pasadena Bait Club, West Fork of San Gabriel. Built by L. J. Torrence 1891; burned in big fire of 1924.

Second cabin of Pasadena Bait Club, above Pine Canyon on San Gabriel River

“Hell-en-gone” Cabin on East Fork of San Gabriel River above Iron Fork. Dr. E. D. Bloomer in doorway. Cabin destroyed in flood of March 2, 1938. Neg on file.

Persinger house, built 1889. Located on east bank of San Gabriel, ½ mile above Flood Control Dam #1. Neg on file.

Persinger Canyon, south of Forks of San Gabriel

Jones cabin on Big Dalton Canyon, above flood control reservoir. Neg on file.

Old Man Jones and his cabin

Cabin built for foreman of Dalton Ranch

Lorenzo’s cabin built by Mark Lorenzo 1868 near spring just below main forks of the San Gabriel. Built of old mining flume lumber (print and enlargement)

Old Mountain View cabin, East Fork, built 1878. Neg on file.

Fred Maloy cabin, East Fork (print and enlargement). Neg on file.

Oliver (Old Hickory) Justice at his cabin near Iron Fork, East Fork of San Gabriels. Neg on file.

Old stone cabin on Bear Creek about 1 mile upstream from the West Fork

Cabin of Covina Outing Club at forks of Bear Creek and West Fork of Bear; cabin built 1906 (2 different views)

Great fire of 1924 on West Fork of the San Gabriel

Lower end of gorge, East Fork, 1935

Big Dalton flood control dam, June 1, 1941.

San Gabriel Canyon (snapshots)

West Fork

Lower face of Dam #2 on West Fork

First real falls on Bear Creek

Pool on the West Fork above Bear Creek. Neg on file.

Up the canyon from Morris Dam. Neg on file.

Pasadena Reservoir on the San Gabriel. Neg on file.

Ski Club members at mouth of Short Cut Canyon, at West Fork

East Fork Narrows

Diamond Rock, Coldbrook Canyon, from Coldbrook Camp. Neg on file.

Orchard at Colby Ranch

Colby Ranch building

San Gabriel Canyon (miscellaneous)

Mount Smithy, beyond Crystal Lake

Scenes with burros. Neg for 454.

Cabins

Fish and fishing rod

Landscapes

San Gabriel River Flood: Photos taken after 1921 flood

Foothill Bridge going out, San Gabriel River Crossing

“Could be the Foothill Bridge”

“Could be the Santa Fe RR Bridge”

San Gabriel River Flood: Photos taken after flood of March 2, 1938

Morris Dam, San Gabriel Canyon

San Gabriel Flood Control #1. (Original and duplicate. Note on duplicate: Flood waters being let out from Morris Dam.)

Flood Control Dam #1

Flood Control Dam #1. Looking down from crest.

Spillway at Flood Control Dam #1

San Gabriel Dam several days after flood

Coldbrook Camp under boulders

North Fork of San Gabriel. (Appears to be remains of CCC Camp at Coldbrook.)

Washed out road repair equipment, San Gabriel Canyon. (Also duplicate print.)

Wreckage of bridge at junction of West and North Forks

East half of lake in Devils Potrero after flood

West half of lake in Devils Potrero after flood

West Fork of San Gabriel River near Camp Rincon

End of travel on San Gabriel Canyon road after flood

Cabins under water. (Submerged sign reads Bath House 2.)

Scene of river, buildings

Ground strewn with debris

Landscape (after flood?)

Fisherman and catch

Construction camp above Dam #1 (2 views). Negs on file.

Spillway at Dam #1. Neg on file.

West Fork between Opid’s Camp and Valley Forge. Neg on file.

Looking up West Fork from Valley Forge Lodge. Neg on file.

Wreckage of Valley Forge main lodge. Neg on file.

Wreckage of Valley Forge Lodge store, dining room, kitchen. Neg on file.

North Fork of San Gabriel Canyon Narrows

All that’s left of Camp Bonita. Neg on file.

Eleven Oaks Camp. Neg on file.

Pacific Crest Trail: San Gabriel Range

Bouquet #4

South Portal Camp

Looking north across Fairmont Reservoir

Lownes Ranch near Fairmont Reservoir

Pool on Iron Fork at Trogden’s

Rock shapes on north wall of Little Rock

Up Little Rock Gorge from pool at foot of falls

Old adobe ruins on bank of Little Rock Creek

Divide west of Cloudburst

On the trail near Cloudburst

East along Blur Ridge; Mount San Antonio in distance

Beautiful young forest above Cedar Creek

Across head of Buckhorn Flat. Mt. Islip in distance.

Camp in Indian Canyon.

Juday’s Meadow and group of Digger pine on crest between Pine Canyon and Fairmont Reservoir

Swinnerton Campground by Little Jimmy Spring

Cedar Spirit Camp.

South face of Mount Williamson.

Breakfast time at Wrightwood

Entrance to Big Pines County Camp

Baden-Powell from Table Mountain

On East trail, Wrightwood to Blue Ridge

Great boulders of Soledad Canyon

Campground at Lily Springs.

Log cabin ruins in Cooper Canyon.

North Fork of Lytle Creek

Una Lake, near Palmdale

North slope of Mount Hawkins

Unidentified views

Lodgepole forest along Pacific Coast Trail between county playgrounds of Crystal Lake and Big Pines. (Neg on file)

Pacific Crest Trail: Desert Division: Snapshots

Joshua Forest in Cottonwood Canyon

North from Willow Springs towards Oak Canyon

Enormous rocks on divide between Mint and Soledad Canyons

Pre-Cambrian rocks of the Sierra Pelona

Unidentified landscape

Miscellaneous San Gabriel Valley photos

Don Benito Wilson home. In photo: George Patton (age 10) and Mary Patton (6). Neg on file.

San Gabriel Valley Stage: sightseeing tallyho which carried passengers from Los Angeles to hostelry (Sierra Madre Villa)

Former home of Dr. Benjamin Briggs. At upper end of Briggs Avenue, near foot of Mount Lukens, La Crescenta. GPN on file.

Mission San Gabriel

Cogswell eucalyptus, El Monte

Wistaria vine, Sierra Madre (postcard)

Home of T. S. C. Lowe on Orange Grove, c. 1900

Wilson Lake, c. 1896

Mount Lowe Circular Bridge

Day it rained snowballs in Pasadena

Pasadena City Hall (seen in background)

Southeast corner Colorado and Raymond, Pasadena, March 1906 (flooded street)

Tournament of Roses. (563, 564 show 20-mule team and borax wagon)

400 S. Garfield. Alhambra

First Old-Timers parade, U. S. W. V.

Thrall’s office in San Gabriel, corner Del Mar and Las Tunas (4 different views, 1 duplicate)

San Gabriel Golf Course

Miscellaneous Los Angeles County Views (Snapshots: 576-592)

South Fork of Big Rock in middle of summer.

Little Rock Reservoir, looking north from the road.

Little Rock Reservoir, looking north. (Duplicate of large print 575.)

Across head of Little Rock

Big Rock Creek, 1927

In Santa Susanna Hills near Chatsworth Reservoir

In mountain lilac, east side of Santa Monica Mountains

Interesting rock erosion on Santa Monica Mountains

Lake Hughes

Down old Topanga Canyon Road from near summit of divide (duplicate prints)

Looking up the gorge, Crags Country Club

Pacoima Canyon by Sand Canyon Road

Little falls along Pacoima-Sand Canyon Road

Pacoima Dam

Looking west across Pacoima from ridge between Gold Creek and Big Tujunga

Middle Canyon, off Pacoima

Little Theatre of Standing Rocks, Piute Butte

Indian wickiups at Piute Butte (Indian Museum)

Lovejoy Lake, ancient site of Piute Indian village

Miscellaneous Los Angeles County Views: Addenda

Upper Lopez Canyon

Condor Peak

On Upper San Dimas Trail

Pacoima area?

At the foot of Josephine Falls

Dedication of bench and drinking fountain at Henniger Flats, September 4, 1937. Photo by Walter Schneider.

Henniger Flats

Big Santa Anita Dam. (Neg 2833).

San Bernardino Mountains

Pinecrest, Big Beark Lake; Cucamonga Canyon, Telegraph Peak

Log entrance to Pinecrest, Sept. 1921

Big Bear Lake, 1952, showing top of old dam

Big Bear Lake

Big Blue Bird [Lodge], Big Bear Lake

“Visitor to Cucamonga Canyon” (burro)

Telegraph Peak

Mount San Gorgonio

Keller Peak Area

Keller Peak ski run

Keller Peak Hut, Arrowhead Ski Club

[Double photo.] Sierra Club Ski Hut and signpost for ski hut

Across San Gorgonio Pass at Mount San Gorgonio: 11,485 feet

Upper end of Vivian Creek Falls

Part of Vivian Creek Falls. (Neg on file)

Part of Vivian Creek Falls. Drop 1000 feet into Mill Creek

Looking across Mill Creek from near the head of Vivian Creek Falls, July 2, 1922

Swiss soldiers on skis

Edward Danner on San Gorgonio

Running Springs Park and Deep Creek Grove: Snapshots

Looking east from north end of Hunsaker Drive to lake site above Gorge. Neg on file.

Lot 1, Block 23, looking west. Neg on file.

Lot 28, block 2. Neg on file.

Nearly all Lot 5, block 1, looking north

Grove of trees comprising whole of Block 3. Neg on file.

Below the narrows, Deep Creek

Gorge on Deep Creek, NE corner of subdivision. 2 dupes

Looking straight down into Deep Creek from Lot 1, Block 1 (2 dupes)

Looking west on Deep Creek from lot 43, block 23

A beautiful pool on Deep Creek below the middle of Block 24. Neg on file.

Looking SE from Lot [10?], Block 23, across camp. Neg on file,

Lots 1 and 15, Block 25. Neg on file.

Looking from lots 4 and 5 (Block 1) south across meadow to Hotel Hill in distance. Neg on file.

Looking north across Encenia Way at lots 10 and 9. Neg on file.

Picnicking along the stream, Deep Creek. Neg on file.

High Creek above Forest Home

Horse-thief Meadows, South fork of Santa Ana River (and dup)

Lower end of Horse-thief Meadow. Sugar Loaf Mountain in distance.

Calico Village, 1938

Calico Cemetery, 1938

Montovia Peak

Unidentified landscapes

Sierra Nevada Mountains

Devils Postpile, near the headwaters of the San Joaquin River, 1948

Looking from Devils Postpile up the San Joaquin River towards its headwaters, 1947

Log cabin on banks of San Joaquin, near Devils Postpile, 1947

Old log bridge across Truckee River, a few miles below Lake Tahoe, 1947

Road through aspens, from Lake Tahoe to Hope Valley, 1947

Chapel of Our Lady, Queen of the Snows, Squaw Valley (color photo inserted in greeting card)

Redwood Highway near the Founder’s Tree, 1953

General Grant National Park: the California Tree, 1952

General Grant Tree, 1952.

Burney Falls, McArthur State Park, 1954 (also dup)

Looking north from U.S. Highway 50, near Myers, north to Desolation Valley

Donner Lake

Crater Lake, 1953

June Lake, looking west

Crystal Crag Lake, west of Mammoth Lakes, 1947

Highest of Mammoth Lakes, 1947

Lake Mary and Crystal Crag, Mammoth Lakes (postcard)

Great earth fault across mountain side above Mammoth Lakes

Mono Craters, near Mono Lake

Kern River above Edison Intake, 1952

Skiers

Red Mountain, Middle Peak

Unidentified landscape

Sequoia National Park

Road to Crescent Meadow, 1952

Crescent Meadow, 1952

View across the meadow to two old sequoias and two of main building group

General Sherman Tree (also a duplicate)

Yosemite National Park

El Capitan, 1954

Yosemite Falls, 1953

Bridalveil Falls, 1956

Mirror Lake

Ski House at Badger Pass

Skier on Horse Ridge

The “big hill” on Inspiration Point Run (Half Dome and Clouds Rest in background)

Joshua Tree National Monument

Behind parked cars is tunnel entrance to Hidden Valley, 1950

Shot from one of improved campgrounds near Hidden Valley

Joshua Trees

Joshua bloom on the Mohave

Keys Lake, Wonderland of Rocks

Keys Ranch, Wonderland of Rocks

Wonderland of Rocks (snapshots)

Mount San Jacinto State Park: Snapshots

Toll gate at San Jacinto Reservoir

Group at San Jacinto Peak (with dup)

On the trail just below Devils Slide

Looking north from Devils Slide

Granite pinnacles along the Devils Slide

Tahquitz Rock and Peak from the top of Devils Slide

Tahquitz Rock (2 views, 1 dup

Looking down 2500 feet into Idyllwild from top of Devils Slide

From San Jacinto Peak Trail looking over Idyllwild.

On the trail at the top of Devils Slide

Looking south from trail at top of Slide

Forests at the edge of Tahquitz Valley

Tamarack forests between Hidden Lake and Round Valley. 5-6 feet of snow.

Along the way from Tahquitz to the top ¼ mile below the summit. Neg on file.

“San Jacinto forests are hard to beat.” Neg on file.

Cornell Peak above Tamarack Valley and a mile from top

Looking down the trail from the top. Neg on file.

Looking down from summit into snow creek and the Whitewater. Neg on file.

Whitewater and San Gorgonio Creek from top of San Jacinto

Hidden Lake, Mount San Jacinto, half-covered with ice and surrounded by snow. Neg on file.

Unidentified forest scenes (2 views, 1 dup of 712; neg for 711)

Unidentified lodge (?); print and dup

Hidden Lake, near top of San Jacinto Peak (highest cliff in world; full-size print)

Prints (Items 715-1200)

Miscellaneous California views (by county)

Kern County

Looking into Cottonwood Canyon, Tehachapi Mountains

Views of Maricopa (postcards)

Part of Main St. (postcard)

Mosher Ave. from Nob Hill (postcard)

A lake of oil (postcard)

Buena [Vista] Lake (postcard)

Views with oil wells (postcards); dup of 722

Gushers. (postcards)

Woman and child [Thralls?], with gusher in background (also 2 dups). Neg on file.

Maricopa houses. Negs for 729-733.

Marin County

Muir Woods

Mendocino County

Coast at Fort Bragg (postcard to Thrall from daughter Rosalind)

Mono County

Near the summit of Dunderberg Peak, 1936

Monterey County

Point Lobos

Carmel Mission, 1952

Orange County

The Arch at Arch Beach

Bird Rocks at Laguna Beach

Prize grocery displays, H. G. Chaffee Co. [Anaheim?]. Snapshots.

Slim Cole’s cabin in Santiago Canyon

Riverside County (snapshots)

Sunrise across Salton Sea, 1921

Hiland House, showing part of 60-year-old vineyard

Rock-covered hills near Beaumont

Mr. MacDonald’s horse and a bridge north of town

Bird’s-eye view of Beaumont round house and office

Beaumont engines

Unidentified group on front porch

Twin Palms entrance to Palm Canyon, 1921 (full-size print)

San Diego County

Snapshots

First San Diego Exposition, 1915

Olive and Rosalind Thrall at Exposition

Palomar Observatory. Neg on file.

Indian village below Warner Hot Springs, 1921

Indian cemetery near Santa Ysabel, 1921. (Dup of 761)

Going up Palomar Mountain on old road from Warner’s Gap on San Luis Rey River, 1921

Looking NE through the forest at summit of Palomar Mountain near junction of road to observatory site, Cleveland Forest

Palomar Mountain Road. Old road to Pala, 1921.

From Pine Mountain Road, 1921

Along old Pine Mountain Road, 1921

Along Pine Hills road, west side of Pine Mountain

View from Pine Mountain, 1921

Down the road along Descanso Creek, 1921

Along Descanso Creek road, 1921

Looking south from Pine Hills Lodge, near Julian, 1921

One of Twin Lakes in Laguna Mountains, 1921

Laguna Mountains

Looking south across Cuyamaca Lake from Pine Mountain road, 1921

Looking at Pine Mountain across north end of Cuyamaca Lake

From Pine Mountain Road from Julian to Cuyamaca Lake, 1921

Meadow on Pine Mountain Road, Julian to Cuyamaca Lake (and dup)

Big meadow on south slope of Mount Palomar, 1921

Cuyamaca State Park

View from old road west of Pine Mountain

Bridge across Santa Ysabel Creek on Mesa Grande road

Pala Mission, 1921

On the cliffs at Point Loma

On the cliffs at Point Loma: gull in flight

Little Jimmy cave at La Jolla, looking up the coast

Little Jimmy cave at La Jolla

Warners Hot Springs

The bubbling pool at Warners Hot Springs

Road races at Corona (postcard)

Torrey Pines grade

Large prints

Looking south across Cuyamaca Lake, 1921

200-inch observatory on Mount Palomar

Administration Building, Panama-California Exposition, Balboa Park. Bertram Goodhue, architect.

San Francisco (Views of city after earthquake and fire, April 18,1906)

The fire and burned district from Holliday Heights, Knob Hill to the right (double postcard)

City Hall after the fire

The Crocker Home after the fire

Fairmont Hotel and Flood Residence after the fire

The Palace Hotel; Grand Hotel to the left

Interior of the St. Francis Hotel after the fire

Majestic Theatre after the fire

St. Catherine Cathedral after the fire

Union Square after the fire

Kearney Street after the fire

Mason Street from Market Street

Looking down Market Street from Van Ness Avenue after the fire

Ruins of a four-story block on Market Street after the fire

The fire burning on Russian Hill

Fire from Russian Hill

Burned ruins of the business district from Knob Hill

Wholesale district from the foot of Market Street after the fire

The Emporium after the fire; Call Building in the distance

Entrance to the Emporium after the fire

Ruins of Prager’s Department Store

Earthquake cracks and sunken sidewalks

Refugees near Fort Mason

Refugees’ camp, Presidio

Photocopy of original envelope: 24 views of San Francisco Ruins. For your post card album. (Photo SUB-POST Card Co., Pub., L.A.)

Santa Barbara County

Main entrance (to Mission?)

Bell tower (Mission?)

Unidentified churches

Hotel Samarkand, on hills north of Santa Barbara

Main entrance, Mission Church, Ojai

Mission Church (new), Ojai

Great Moreton Bay Fig at Santa Barbara, 1955

Siskiyou County

Caribou Lakes. (Mounted snapshot.)

Ventura County

Pinyon forest in Frazier Mountain district

Will Thrall and family: photos

Formal portrait of Thrall by Hartsook

Head and shoulders photo of Thrall

Thrall on Buckhorn Canyon Trail. Neg on file.

Thrall and giant incense cedar east of Buckhorn Flat campground, about 1916; (also snapshot duplicate)

Thrall cooking steaks in Fern Canyon, NW of Browns Flat, March 1, 1923. (With San Antonio Club.)

Thrall with friend who is cooking flapjacks over campfire

Thrall and friend by canyon stream

Thrall near Kelly’s Camp; Mount San Antonio on skyline

Thrall fastens Old Glory to L.A. County’s Top-o-the-World, Summit of Mount San Antonio. (Thrall led party of 20 to summit, Memorial Day, 1920.) (Full-size photo and small snapshot)

Thrall at little side canyon falls about 1 ½ miles above Oakville, on Arroyo Seco, c.1896 (mounted snapshot)

Thrall on summit of Mount San Antonio

Wilson, Thrall, and Smith on Mount San Antonio

Thrall after placing bronze tablet on Mount San Antonio, Memorial Day 1920

Thrall on summit of Mount San Jacinto (also dup)

Thrall (“Big Chief”) on unidentified summit

Thrall at head of Vivian Creek Falls; view across Mill creek to only Southern California glacier

Thrall sitting on giant stump

Thrall riding Dynamite in Coldwater Canyon on way to Mount San Antonio

Thrall and unidentified woman

Will and Olive Thrall above Idyllwild

Will and Olive Thrall at the Samarkand, Santa Barbara

[Rosalind?] Thrall

[Rosalind?] Thrall on hike. Copy neg on file.

[Rosalind?] Thrall?] on horseback

Olive Thrall at Pinecrest Resort, photographed on old wagon once used for logging

“Ruby at Crater Lake”

San Antonio Hiking Club

Big Spruce Cabin in Bear Canyon, headquarters of San Antonio Club. (2 prints). Neg on file.

“The cabin in the canyon,” mountain headquarters of San Antonio Club on Bear Canyon.

San Antonio Club Lodge (original Big Spruce Cabin) and the little cabin built 1923)

Members at old rock cabin, Bear Creek

Members at old miners’ cabin on San Antonio Ridge, May 29,1920

Club on San Jacinto Peak

Club nearing the summit of Mount San Gorgonio. Neg on file for 864. [Note: Members in 864a identified on 864b.]

At summit of Mount San Gorgonio, July 3, 1922

Summit of Mount San Gorgonio (11,485 feet elevation)

Top of great Ski Hill on Mount San Gorgonio (also dup print)

Club members in spruce forest on trail between Sturtevant Camp and Hoegee’s Camp, Big Santa Anita Canyon

Club members on trail to San Antonio Ski Hut, headwaters of San Antonio Canyon, Oct. 2, 1949

At Half-Way Camp on Winter Creek; first hike after ladies taken in as members

Five members of club (Thrall and 4 women) in Millard Canyon, Oct. 14, 1951

San Antonio and Roamer Clubs at old Spanish hacienda on Tapa Alta Ranch

One club member at Devils Punch Bowl

Club in unidentified landscape

Snapshots

Pack train with material for Big Spruce Cabin

Club on big cedar log across upper Bear Canyon before cabin built

Club building Mount Lowe-Bear Canyon Trail (dups of 879, 880)

Special PE car for Bear Canyon Trail dedication. (52 on trip.)

On trail from Mount Lowe Tavern to Big Spruce Cabin

Three members by Big Spruce, Bear Canyon

Members on steps of little old schoolhouse at Oak Grove

Members on cliffs of Upper Eaton Canyon (2 different views)

On Switzer Camp-Hoegee Camp Trail (also 2 dups)

Club hikers in snow on trail from Oak Grove to Mount Palomar Summit

Before the hike at Modjeska’s home. San Antonio Club and ladies. (Also a dup)

San Antonio Club at Sierra Club cabin in Big Santa Anita Canyon

Members at Big Santa Anita Dam

[In envelope marked Miscellaneous South Side: Big Santa Anita to San Dimas]

Pine Mountain Lookout

Looking NE from Pine Mountain town

Looking down Devil Gulch at Iron Mountain

Rattlesnake Peak. Iron Mountain and San Antonio in distance.

[In envelope marked Miscellaneous: South side, West of Big Santa Anita]

Indian Ben Camp, Pacoima

Tom Luca Camp

Camp at forks of Devil Canyon, 3 ½ miles from Camp Chilao. Feb. 24,1938.

La Cienega Camp, on Trail Canyon off Big Tujunga Trail to Mt. Gleason

Yerba Buena Camp

Camp #15, Coldwater and Tujunga

Taylor Camp in Elizabeth Lake Canyon. 9 stoves, 12 tables.

Oak Spring Camp off from Gold Creek

First camp below Sturtevant’s Camp on Big Santa Anita. Club on day prize trail picture was taken.

Up the fire break on visit to Strawberry Peak.

Up Bear Canyon from Club Lookout. Mt. Lowe, Markham, Mt. Disappointment in distance.

Tunnel on Soledad Canyon Road

Mount Gleason

On road from Castaic Canyon to Elizabeth Lake Canyon

View to North from above Fremont Pass

“Up Mt. Lukens is hard going.”

Looking from trail as it drops to canyon bottom above the reservoir. Josephine Falls on cliff in distance.

At camp on desert north of Mojave, 1938. (2 different views)

Five men and boy on unidentified trail

Hikers in deep snow

Hikers resting in unidentified location

Club on hump of Devils Backbone

“We follow down the edge of a fold into Sand Canyon.”

Devils Punchbowl, Sand Canyon

Two club members in Devils Punchbowl

[In envelope marked San Jacinto Peak]

First view of Strawberry Valley. Tahquitz Peak in background.

Tahquitz Valley, a campground near San Jacinto Peak, where we camped for 2 nights (also 2 dups). Neg on file.

Round Valley, 2 ½ miles from summit. Two guides stopped here.

¼ mile from summit (May 29, 1921) Party in 15 feet of snow. (Also dup)

On summit (May 29, 1921) after toughest climb in history of peak.

May 30, 1921. Breaking camp for return to Idylwild.

Just home from San Jacinto trip, May 30, 1921.

Photos of camp members; no information on verso. (Neg on file for 930.)

Mount San Gorgonio, July 2-4, 1922. Snapshots

Our parking place at end of Mill Creek Trail to Blue Jay Camp on Vivian Creek started here, July 2, 1922

Falls at Big Falls Creek branch of Mill Creek above Forest Home, July 2, 1922

Across Mill Creek at only glacier in Southern California, from Vivian Creek Trail, July 2, 1922

Look across Mill Creek at the snow, from Vivian Creek Trail July 2, 1922

We stop for a rest on Mt. San Gorgonio Trail, July 3, 1922

First snow on Mill Creek-Mt. San Gorgonio Trail, July 3, 1922

Looking at last water in Round Valley, on way to Mt. San Gorgonio, July 3, 1922

“The buckthorn was sure thick and sharp,” July 3,1922

We have crossed the big snowfield and nearing the summit of Mt. San Gorgonio, July 3, 1922

A look toward the valley, with our feet in snow, July 3, 1922

Mt. San Gorgonio Trail. Looking down from lower end of Buckhorn Flat, July 3, [1922]. (Date given on verso as July 3, 1923.)

Near summit of Mt. San Gorgonio south slope, July 3, 1922

Mt. San Gorgonio 1 mile below summit, July 3, 1922

Club on summit, Mt. San Gorgonio, July 3, 1922. (Also poor duplicate)

Vivian Creek meets Mill Creek, July 4, 1922

Mill Creek Cascades below the big falls, July 4, 1922

San Antonio Club at Blue Jay Camp, July 4, 1922

San Diego County trips. Snapshots

“Our camp on Laguna Mountains, 1921.” (4 different views); neg for 951)

Little old schoolhouse at Oak Grove where we slept on the floor on club hike to Mt. Palomar summit. Neg on file.

View from our camp on Palomar Mountain 1921.

San Antonio Club on summit of Mount Palomar. Neg on file.

Club outside Mission San Juan Capistrano

Club at Three Arches Bay

Thrall on cliff at Three Arches Bay

Club on summit of Mount Lukens (snow all the way)

Club on Mount San Antonio, second trip

San Antonio Canyon Road

Club by stone cabin in Fish Canyon

“Hiking in Cleghorn Canyon, San Bernardino Mountains”

Club on the cliffs of Cucamonga Canyon Gorge (also dup)

Bouquet Canyon above Camp #1

Going up the Smith Mountain Trail from North Fork road

Fraser Mountain Lookout

Chu-chu-pate Campground on Fraser Mountain (2 different views)

Campground at Atmore Meadow

Atmore Meadow

Herkey Creek Campground, Pines to Palms Highway (2 different views)

Shake Canyon Camp (upper)

Three of the seven cabins in Maple Canyon

Winter Creek Campground: 2 stoves, 3 tables, toilets)

Lower Little Rock Campground (Little Sycamores): 6 stoves and tables

County Campground #47 near mouth of Big Rock Canyon: 4 stoves, 1 table

Artesian Springs Campground in Sierra Pelona

The Big Oak of the Sierra Pelona (2 different views)

Old rocks of the Sierra Pelona. End view, from the East

Unidentified members of San Antonio Hiking Club in unidentified locations

Orange County trips. Snapshots:

“Loading the burros for the start:

Group on horseback

Group on fallen-tree bridge

Group by stream

Group hiking on trail

Members in rocky landscapes. Neg for 990.

Members at summit (?)

Group sitting on ground and eating

Group lined up for food

Campground

Campground?

Landscape

13 members posing (also dup)

One to three members posing

Young boy posing

Photos of Trails Magazine covers

Summer 1934 (and dupe)

Autumn 1934 (and dup)

Winter 1935

Winter 1936

Autumn 1937 (Snow sports number)

“Geiselman and Dietz Photos”

Program for Institution and first installation of officers, Alhambra Bethel. Order of Job’s Daughters. (Snapshots of three young women on cover)

Christmas cards with photos of Geiselmans

Photos of mother, father, daughter

Large group around table while Mr. Geiselman, as chef, cuts a decorated cake

Miscellaneous subjects

A nest of lady bugs

Mountain lions (Photos from Gus Wassendorf)

Yuccas. (1026-1029 photos by Cornelius Smith; 1030: postcard and dup)

Eucalyptus trees, Pomona. (Postcard)

Unidentified tree

Avenue of palms

Cactus (opuntia)

The Big Oak of the Sierra Pelona

Engelmann Oak

Logs and branches

Small photo of clipper

“Lurline” by Golden Gate Bridge

Fuschia (?) flowers

Tapo Alta Coquina Mine (2000 feet above sea lelel)

East across the head of Bear Trap

Indian rock, 1955

Snow pictures (possibly used in Trails Magazine)

Snowy landscape

Ice skaters

Tobogganers

Skiers

Skiers resting by tents

Skiers outside lodge

Montage: Toboggan, ice skaters, skier

Out-of-state photos

Arizona: Kaibab Forest (postcard)

Maine: Monument to the victims of the “Maine,” off Cuba.

New Mexico: Inscription Rock

Utah: Cedar Breaks

Oregon: Volcanic rocks along the Oregon coast.

Canadian Rockies: Mount Miles

Oversize

Pre-Cambrian Rocks of the Sierra Pelona

Lou Newcomb’s cabin at Chilao, c. 1900 and cabin built in 1910. [For information see 135 verso.]

Old hideout of Tiburcio Vasquez

Upper Coldwater Canyon from near the Smith Mine

Near the head of Fish Fork

Lower Fish Canyon Falls (150 feet high)

South Fork of Big Rock in middle of summer

Big Tujunga Canyon, north of Colbys at Camp #15

Lower end of San Gabriel Narrows before road work began

After road grade partly finished. Looking north from San Gabriel Gorge

After road grade partly finished. Looking east across lower end of San Gabriel Narrows.

Looking east across lower end of San Gabriel Narrows, East Fork of San Gabriel River

In the Narrows. Looking north up San Gabriel Gorge

Dome of Palomar Observatory

Looking up Prairie Fork near guard station and Lupine Campground. Blue Ridge in background.

Oil Wells

Midway Oil fields. On verso: information on town of Maricopa

Maricopa (panorama: 2 postcards)

Lakeview #1, Maricopa (gusher estimated production 1,000,000 barrels)

Lakeview #1, Maricopa, after gushing for 14 days at rate of 40,000 barrels a day.

Magazine covers

Rail Magazine, Winter 1937

Trails Magazine covers

Spring 1935 (North Fork of Lytle Creek)

Summer 1936 (San Gabriel Canyon Number)

Autumn 1936

Spring 1938 (smoke cloud over Mt.Lukens, September 13, 1913)

Summer 1938

Winter 1938

Spring 1939, Mount Lowe number (shows Thrall)

Autumn 1938 (snow sports issue) [Filed out of order because of size]

Forest Service poster of fire (artist James Montgomery Flagg. “Your Forests—Your Fault—Your Loss!”

Old Baldy mantled with snow. (LAT Photogravure Section)

Hikers in snow. Print accepted for Morgan Photo Exhibition (sponsored by Morgan Camera Shop, Hollywood)

Landscape with forest in foreground, snowy mountain in background.

Snapshots in envelope labeled “Vacation 1921”:

Hikers

Landscape (mounted snapshot)

Snapshots in envelope labeled “Coast pictures, 1921”

Woodcraft Rangers exhibit (postcards)

Unidentified Thrall photos (No negatives)

Large prints

Man on horseback

Group posed outside Craftsman building

Woman in Spanish costume playing guitar

Mountain landscape with palms

Seaside cliffs

Woodland stream

Woodland stream and cabin

Scene with mountains, trees

Campground? Mountains in background.

Forest scene

2 cars on road flanked by trees. Snow-topped mountain in background

Mountain scene

Snapshots

Mountain scenes

Outdoor fireplace

Highway scenes (?)

Falls

Cabins

Ornate entryway

Bridge

Landscapes with trees

Trees reflected in water. Mountains in background

Mountain scenery

Man on hilltop. Pennant flying

Woman gazing at mountain scenery

Horseback riders among trees

Horseback rider, 2 pack mules

Woman standing between 2 men in uniform

Geode

Buildings

Residences.

Golf course?

Oversize prints (Items 1059-1089)

Glass negatives (matched with prints)

Glass negatives (not matched with prints)

Film negatives (for items 3-930)

Miscellaneous 35 mm negatives

Seashore, with island in background

Belltower

Commercial scene?

Commercial scene?

Young girl reading

Unprinted film negatives (Items 1201-1608)

Unprinted negatives. Subjects identified by Thrall

Arroyo Seco—Strawberry Peak (1225: en route aboard P.E. car)

Bear Canyon (1252: Big Spruce cabin in Bear Canyon)

Frank Begue and his trail crew (goats)

Big Pines Trail Marathon, 1938 trophy

California Building Balboa Park

Carmel Mission 1952

Chilao Gorge

Crystal Lake Park

Devils Backbone (on East side of Mount San Antonio. Photo by Don Alexander

Devils Punchbowl

Eaton Canyon

Echo Mountain railroad car

Flood of 1938

Frazier Mountain

Guffy Camp

High Sierra Trip, Aug.4-15, 1947

Joshua trees

Liberty Loan window display

Maricopa

Millard Canyon

Mount Lowe

Mount Pacifico

Mount Palomar

Mount San Antonio: cabin at Banks Mine

Mount Waterman

Northern trip, 1952: “Big Trees”

Ojai Mission Church

Palm Canyon

Rancho Tapo Alto. (“second best”)

Ranger force, 1905

San Antonio Canyon: toll gate

San Antonio Hiking Club

San Gabriel City (“about Country Club Crest”)

San Gorgonio snow scene

Sierra Club ski hut

Skier

Will H. Thrall

Thrall residence, S. Vernon, Pasadena

Rosalind Thrall in S. Vernon home

Thrall home on Rosemont Avenue, Pasadena

Thrall outside their home on Rosemont Avenue, Pasadena

Rosalind Thrall outside home on Rosemont Avenue

Will Thrall and birthday cake at Big Spruce cabin. (Photocolor. Photo by Margaret Doyle)

“Thrall and Balmer in Fern Canyon. From Ken’s slides”

“Trees: Big Eucalyptus”

“Trees: Mammoth Coulter Pines at Lily Spring”

“Scene of the capture of Vasquez”

Unprinted film negatives (Items 1609-2079)

Unprinted Negatives. Trips between two points

Balboa to Laguna Beach

Banning to Idyllwild

Barton Flat to Mt. San Gorgonio

Buckhorn Flats to Islip Saddle

Cottonwod Canyon to Bouquet Canyon

Dana Point to San Diego

Iyllwild to Tahquist Valley

Malibu Lake to Castro Peak Tower

Mount Islip Saddle to head of Lytle Creek

Mount Lukens, Mount Josephine to Chilao

Pacoima and West to Santa Susana Pass

San Gabriel Canyon to Crystal Lake and [Bechota?] Canyon

Santa Susana Pass to Lake Elsinore; Rancho Tapa Alta

Soledad and Indian Canyons to Mount Gleason and Tick Canyon Divide

Tahquitz Valley to Mt. San Jacinto

Three Points to Cloudburst Pass and Buckhorn

West San Bernardino Mountains to Running Springs Park

Unprinted negatives. Multiple subjects grouped together by Thrall

Apartment roofs and Arroyo Seco before the floods (1902-1905)

Big Santa Anita, Little Santa Anita, Winter Creek

BigTujunga, Colby Ranch

Bouquet Canyon, Sierra Pelona

Brown’s Flat and San Dimas Canyon

Buckhorn Flat, Buckhorn Canyon, Little Rock

Charlton Flat, Chilao and area, Loomis Ranch

Cooper Canyon, Winston Peak

Cuyamaca Lake, Laguna Mountains, La Posta, Mesa Grande

Unprinted film negatives (Items 2080-2574)

Unprinted negatives. Multiple subjects grouped together by Thrall

Devils Hole and head of Little Rock Creek

Fish Canyon, Roberts Canyon, Monrovia Canyon

Glen Ivy, Cucamonga Canyon

Glenn Ranch, Lower Lytle Creek, San Sevaine Flats

Horse Flat, Mount Hillyer

Ice House, Kelly’s Camp

Laguna Beach, Arch Beach, Three Arches Bay

Laguna Beach, South Laguna

Malibu Mountains

Mill Creek and San Gorgonio

Mount Lowe, Mount Wilson, Barley Flat

Mount Pacifico and bear trap

Mount San Antonio Canyon and Peak

Mount San Antonio Peak, 1925

Northern California trip, 1952

Northern California trip, 1953

Northern California trip, 1954

Pines to Palms Highway, Warner’s Hot Springs, Pine Hills, Julian

Pot Holes, Elizabeth Lake Canyon, Ventura County, Sawmill Mountains, Aqueduct

Prairie Fork, Fish Fork

Red Rock Canyon, north side

Running Springs Park and Big Bear Lake

San Francisco Fair. (3 negatives on a strip: 2429 a,b,c; 2430 a,b,c; 2431 a,b,c; 2432 a,b,c).

San Gabriel Gorge. Primitive area and destruction caused by road building

Squaw Camp, Sulphur Spring

Trail Canyon, Falls Creek, Fox Creek

Twin Peaks Trail, Twin Peaks

Upper Lytle Creek, Coldwater Canyon, Stockton Flat

Vasquez Rocks, Big Boulders of the Soledad. [Note by Thrall: “See old history negatives.”]

Vasquez Rocks, Escondido Canyon, Chatsworth, Fremont Pass

West Fork, Devil Canyon, Bear Creek

Wonderland of Rocks, 29 Palms, East desert areas

Unprinted film negatives (Items 2575-3090)

From envelope with notation “250 historical photographs” [only 13 negatives in the envelope.] Subheadings: Chilao, Charleton Flat, Squaw Camp, Loomis Ranch, Buckhorn.

Explanatory note by Thrall.

[Scenes of Chilao, Charlton Flat, Squaw Camp, Loomis Ranch, Buckhorn]

Miscellaneous unprinted negatives

USCGA patrol of Midwinter Regatta, Feb. 21-23, 1948

USPS cruise aboard Interlude to Isthmus. Films at Clark’s and San Pedro

W. B. Masland’s visit, and others

[? Arthur Carter ?]

Mrs. Hawkins

Residences: San Gabriel and local [3 envelopes]

400 S. Garfield. Alhambra Hospital

Real estate films

Mission films

Supervisors crossing the river

Two deer browsing

Ely films

Films prior to 1915.

Ely films

Exposures with Dolly F 3.5 lens. [In envelope numbered by Thrall D201- D219]

Exposures with Vollender F 3.5 lens. [In envelope numbered by Thrall D220-D235]

Exposures with Dolly F 3.5 lens, 1934. [In envelope numbered by Thrall D236-D251]

Exposures with Dolly F 3.5 lens: Jack Doody, 1929. [In envelope numbered by Thrall D252-D265]

“Licorice and Chocolate” 1934. [In envelope numbered by Thrall D266-D279]

Betty and W. M; Lucille painting; various ship photos. [In envelope numbered by Thrall D280-294]

Shipboard photos. [In envelope numbered by Thrall D295-D309]

San Diego Exposition, etc. 3.5 Dolly camera. [In envelope numbered by Thrall D310-D319)

Shipyard. (Dolly camera). [In envelope numbered by Thrall D320-D330]

[Catalina] Photos with #2 folding Hawkeye, single lens. [In envelope numbered by Thrall H401-H423]

Unidentified. Exposure with #1 Pocket Camera, July 1933. [In envelope numbered by Thrall P101-P132]

Photos by photographers other than Thrall

Charles Bander negatives,1903-1907. Subjects: Cabins and mules. (1 neg damaged).

Jack Bundy negatives, photos of various people.

Wawona cabin, from photo by Cornelius Smith

Robert Turner negatives:

Big Spruce cabin

Feb 2, 1927. Monrovia Peak. (Print for 2833, Big Santa Anita Dam)

Mount San Antonio and Camp Baldy

Devils Punchbowl

Pacific Northwest negatives. (Owner unknown).

Negatives numbered by Thrall. Mostly unidentified

[Thrall numbers 1672-1681].

[Thrall 1682]. Sign reads “Welcome to Nevada.”

[Thrall numbers 1682-1691].

[Thrall 1682] shows sign reading Bridalveil Falls.

[Thrall 1692-1701].

[Thrall 1702-1709, 1711-1712].

[Thrall 1713-1722].

[Thrall 1723-1732].

[Thrall 1733-1742].

[Thrall 1743-1752].

[Thrall 1753-1762].

[Thrall 1763-1772].

[Thrall 1773-1782].

[Thrall 1783-1789, 1851-1853]

[Thrall 1854-1863].

[Thrall 1864-1867,1870-1875].

[Thrall 1876, 1885-1889, 1891, 1894-1896].

[Thrall 1897, 1898, 1901-1908].

[Thrall 1909-1920].

[Thrall 1921, 1923-1931].

[Thrall 1932-1941].

[Thrall 1942-1946, 1961-1962].

[Thrall 1963-1966, 1971, 1972, 1977, 1983, 1987].

[Thrall 1966] San Francisco, 1931.

[Thrall 1971] San Francisco fish markets, 1931.

[Thrall 1972] Fisherman’s Cove, San Francisco 1931.

[Thrall 1977, 1978] White Angel Jungle.

Unprinted film negatives (Items 3091-3510)

Negatives numbered by Thrall. Mostly unidentified

[Thrall 1988, 1990-1992, 1995, 2001-2002].

[Thrall 1995] San Pedro, 1932.

[Thrall 2001] Ship off Rocky Point, 1932.

[Thrall 2002] Redondo, 1932.

[Thrall 2006, 2015-2018, 2035, 2036, 2047-2048, 2052].

[Thrall 2053, 2054, 2072, 2088, 2092, 2093, 2096-2096, 2101].

[Thrall 2102-2106, 2110, 2114].

[Thrall 2115, 2116, 2120-2127].

[Thrall 2132, 2135-2141].

[Thrall 2142-2145, 2155, 2156, 2158, 2159, 2161, 2162].

[Thrall 2163-2166, 2168-2172, 2174]. Boating scenes.

[Thrall 2175, 2176, 2180-2187]. Boating and railroad scenes.

[Thrall 2188-2190, 2194-2195, 2200-2201].

[Thrall 2202-2204, 2206-2211, 2301].

[Thrall 2302-2311]. No numbers written on negs.

[Thrall 2312-2313, 2315-2316, 2332-2326]. No numbers on negs.

[Thrall 2327-2336]. No numbers on negs.

[Thrall 2337-2346]. No numbers on negs.

[Thrall 2347-2356]. No numbers on negs.

[Thrall 2357-2366].

[Thrall 2381-2387, 2394-2396].

[Thrall 2397, 2400-2408].

[Thrall 2409-2412, 2414-2419].

[Thrall 2456-2459, 2613, 2618, 2628-2629, 2668-2669].

[Thrall 2670-2673, 2708-2713].

[Thrall 2721-2726, 2758-2761].

[Thrall 2762-2764, 2772-2773, 2777-2781].

[Thrall 2782-2784, 2819-2825].

Thrall 2826, 2833-2835, 2844-2850].

[Thrall 2855-2858] (2851-2854 damaged negs.)

[Thrall 2859-2865].

[2876. Eastin’s Rogue Haven]

[ 2877. Glen Anderton car]

[ 2878. Blue Ox (Trees of Mystery)]

[2879. South Park motel, Eureka]

[2880-2881. Corona mast]

[ 2882. Art Christensen boat]

[2883. Castle Rock—ship ashore]

[2884. Lucille on ship]

[2885. Billy Eastin]

[2886-2887. Dixie and pups]

[2888. Southern Pacific boxcar]

[2889. Waldport bridge]

[2890-2891. Pups]

[2892. Well drilling rig]

[2893. Well driller]

[2894-2896. Flood, Eastin’s]

[2897. Flood:laundry building,1956.]

[2898-2899. Flood debris]

[2900-2901. Flood, Rogue River]

[2902-2904. Eastin cabins]

[2905-2906. Lucille in Ford]

[ 2907. Hoist wreck]

[ 2908. Southern Pacific diesel]

[2958-2959. Billy Eastin party]

[2960-2964. Boat “Leilani”]

[2972-2973. Billy’s Christmas train, 1956]

[2474-2978. Model trains]

[2980. Lucille]

[2981, 2983. Bill]

[3013-3015. Installing new gas tank at Elk-Trail School]

[3016-3019. 8th grade field trip to Crescent City]

[3020-3022. Elk-Trail Bible School pot luck lunch]

[Thrall 3039, 3045-3053]

[Thrall 3054-3063]

[Thrall 3064-3073]

[Thrall 3077-3080, 3135-3138, 3204-3205]

Miscellaneous unprinted negatives

(In envelope with note: Greek George cabin, Kings Road and Fountain, Hollywood.)

Unidentified cabins

Unidentified buildings

Unidentified people

Seaside views

USCGA Trip to Isthmus?

Airplane on ground

Automobiles

Boats

Bridge

Flock of chickens

Herd of goats

Farm scene

Wagon with barrels; group of spectators

Mules carrying boards up hillside

Miscellaneous 35 mm negatives

Seashore, with island in background

Belltower

Commercial scene?

Commercial scene?

Young girl reading

35 mm Kodacolor film strips

Outdoor scenes. (Unnumbered neg, followed by #1, 2, 3)

Outdoor scene (4); buildings (5-6): boats (7)

House interiors (13-15)

House interiors (16-18)

Crowd by sea. (19)

Larger glass and film negatives

Film negatives

Glass negatives

Mr. Warfield? (Scrap of paper in envelope reads “Warfield.”)

Photo of two miniature portraits of unidentified man. (Pictures photographed in opposite directions.)

Unidentified man holding a book

35mm positive black-and-white slides

Views of West and Southwest, including Los Angeles and Pasadena

Thrall on Barley Flat

Early Ranger force

Begue and Jenette

Silas Hoyt and boys

Silas Hoyt and cabin

Delos Colby and Ma

The old Colby cabin

Colby’s 2-story log

Colby’s rock house

Joe Argay’s Hermitage

Monte Cristo Mine

Hunt Club and cabin

Dark Canyon Ranger Station

First Switzer Camp

Moving piano, Switzer’s

Switzer’s rock house

Big Spruce Cabin

Twin Spruce Cabin

Dawn Mine Cabin

Brown Brothers’ cabin

Brown Brothers and sister

Browns and cabin on ridge

Hunters at Newcomb’s

Early head of Incline

Incline construction

Incline construction

First Incline power house

Early Echo Mountain

Mount Lowe Incline

Incline, opening day

Rubio Pavilion

Rubio Pavilion

Rubio Canyon

Rubio Pavilion (back)

Work camp, Echo Mountain

[Missing]

Echo Mountain House

The White City

Searchlight

Circular Bridge

Circular Bridge, White City

Granite Gate

Squirrel Spring cabin

Party on Mount Lowe

Alpine Tavern

Alpine Tavern in snow

Smoke cloud from Echo

Smoke cloud from Echo

Toll House, Altadena

Party on Mount Wilson Trail

Snider’s original cabin

Snider’s Half Way House

Martin’s Camp

[Missing]

Mount Wilson pack train

Pack train and stage

[Missing]

Mount Wilson Trail: Quarter Way House

[Missing]

Half Way House, Orchard Camp

Horseback party on Mount Wilson Trail

Harvard Observatory in summer

Harvard Observatory in winter

Strain’s Camp, Mount Wilson

First cabin, Mount Wilson

Original Mount Wilson Hotel

Mount Wilson in snow

Pack train on Mount Wilson

Mount Wilson Observatory—building the 100-inch

Mount Wilson Observatory towers

1924 fire from Mount Wilson

1924 fire from Mount Wilson

1924 fire from Mount Wilson

Bill Sturtevant at burro stables

The first Sturtevant Camp

Sturtevant’s tennis court

Main building at Sturtevant’s

Sturtevant’s old ranger station

Fern Lodge

The Hermit of Big Santa Anita

John Knox Portwood and his burro team 103. Creel Club cabin

Fireplace of Creel Club cabin

Creel Club

Persinger cabin

Lorenzo’s cabin at the Forks Spring

Cornelius Potter’s Little Rincon

Cornelius Potter with branding iron

Staged holdup at the 23rd crossing

Camp Rincon’s store and post office

Wing Ling, the Rincon cook

Rincon’s manager on his horse

Harry Walton and Tooch Martin

Walton and Martin at the Walton Mine

Original Pasadena Bait Club cabin

Stone cabin on Bear Creek.

Covina Outing Club on Bear Creek

Cold Brook Stage on North Fork

Main building, Cold Brook Camp

Wawona Basin

Wawona cabin

Occidental College students at Wawona

Occidental College students at Wawona

Crystal Lake, 1914

Crystal Lake, from Castle Crag

Pete Goodell at Mount Islip Monument

William Potter cabin on East Fork

Follows Camp, East Fork

Ralph Follows and the store

The Follows Stage

Old Bill Heaton at his mine

Bill Heaton’s old cabin

Bill Heaton’s old cabin

Bill Heaton’s old cabin

Sedley Peck washing gold

Oliver Justice and cabin

The Justice cabin

Trogden cabin at Iron Fork

Trogden cabin at later date

Trogden cabin at later date

Trogden cabin as it looked in 1935

At the Falls of Iron Fork

The Giddings cabin on East Fork

Hell-n-gone cabin

Tom Vincent cabin near head of Vincent Gulch

Capt. Kidder cabin on Coldwater Canyon

Original Weber cabin on Coldwater

Recreation room at Weber’s Camp

A mile above Weber’s

Albums volumes 1, 3, 4

Snapshot Album

Correspondence; Notes; Miscellaneous

Ephemera

Empty album bindings

3A Kodak Autographic No. A-122 folding pocket camera