San Diego Natural History Museum Collection
1974.019
Museum of Us
1350 El Prado
Balboa Park
San Diego, 92101
619-239-2001
Title:
Identifier/Call Number: 1974.019
Contributing Institution:
Museum of Us
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
(One clamshell box)
Date (inclusive): 1900-1927
Abstract: This collection is made up of 121 negatives of various sizes. The photograph locations encompass sites in San Diego, California
and Baja California, Mexico. The San Diego locations are as follows: the Mesa Grande and Pala Indian Reservations, Warner
Springs, Laguna Mountains, Pine Valley, Jacumba, Escondido, Oceanside, Imperial County, Balboa Park, and Anza-Borrego Desert
State Park. The locations in Baja California include: El Rosario, Jatay, Laguna Salada, San Felipe, San Quintín, Santo Domingo,
Santo Tomás, Sierra San Felipe, Sierra San Juarez, and Sierra San Pedro. The photographs are taken by eight different photographers
including: Clinton G. Abbott, Edward H. Davis, Guy L. Fleming, Mrs. Marjorie Lee Guest, Laurence Markham Huey, F. W. Kelsey,
W. S. Wright, and R. E. Vandruff.
Scope and Content
This collection is made up of 121 negatives of various sizes. The photograph locations encompass sites in San Diego, California
and Baja California, Mexico. The San Diego locations are as follows: the Mesa Grande and Pala Indian Reservations, Warner
Springs, Laguna Mountains, Pine Valley, Jacumba, Escondido, Oceanside, Imperial County, Balboa Park, and Anza-Borrego Desert
State Park. The locations in Baja California include: El Rosario, Jatay, Laguna Salada, San Felipe, San Quintín, Santo Domingo,
Santo Tomás, Sierra San Felipe, Sierra San Juarez, and Sierra San Pedro.
The subjects of the photographs include human figures, churches, burial sites, ruins of a few missions, houses and other structures,
as wel as natural landscapes. The photographs are taken by eight different photographers including: Clinton G. Abbott, Edward
H. Davis, Guy L. Fleming, Mrs. Marjorie Lee Guest, Laurence Markham Huey, F. W. Kelsey, W. S. Wright, and R. E. Vandruff.
The collection is made up of mostly copy negatives and prints with a few originals:
The print sizes include: 2" x 2.5", 2" x 3", 2.5" x 4", 2.5" x 4.5", 3" x 5.5", 3" x 4", 3.5" x 4.5", 3.5" x 4.75", 3.5" x
5", 3.5" x 5.5", 3.5" x 6", 4" x 5", 4.5" x 5.5", 4.5" x 6", 4.5" x 7", 5" x 7", 8" x 10".
The negative sizes include: 2" x 2.5", 2' x 3", 2.5" x 4.5", 3" x 4", 3.25" x 5.5", 3.5" x 4.5", 3.5" x 5", 3.5" x 6", 4"
x 5" 4.5" x 6.5".
Background
Clinton G. Abbott (1881-1946) was the director of the San Diego Natural History Museum from 1922 until his death.Abbott was
born to American parents in Liverpool, England. His early years were spent at schools in both North American and England.
Abbott graduated from Columbia University in 1903, and developed a strong background in natural history and ornithology while
briefly at Cornell for graduate work. Aboot's work, "The Home Life of the Osprey" was published in 1911, and by that time
he had become well-known naturalist in the United States. Abbott joined what was theen known as the San Diego Society of Natural
History in the 1920's as an educational assistant, and soon after became director, after the previous director, Howard Cleaves,
left his position.
Edward H. Davis (1862-1951) was a field collector for the Museum of the American Indian in New York. He acquired many Native
American artifacts from tribes in San Diego County, and Northern Mexico.
Guy L. Fleming was a fellow at the San Diego Society of Natural History, and along with Clinton G. Abbott, he submitted plans
in 1928 to create the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
Laurence Markham Huey (1892-1963) was a curator for the Department of Birds and Mammals at the San Diego Natural History Museum
for 38 years, from 1923-1961.
William S. Wright (1866-1933) was an amatuer entomologist who worked with the entomology collection at the San Diego Natural
History Museum, starting in 1910; he became the Curator of insects in 1922.
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P001141
04/1923
Description: Photograph, black & white. Image of the Pala Mission, showing bell tower on a large stone base, with a small chapel and other
out-buildings to the left. Three Indian children stand in the foreground. Location: Pala Indian Reservation, San Diego, California.
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P001142
03/12/1927
Description: Photograph, black & white. Image of the Pala Mission, showing bell tower on a large stone base, with a small chapel and other
out-buildings to the left, and a light pole with a sign which reads "El Camino Real." People walk around the base of the bell
tower. Location: Pala Indian Reservation, San Diego, California.
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P001143
03/27/1923
Description: Photograph, black & white. Image of a Cupeño girl standing in front of a gate, in front of a wood house. There are bushes
in front of the fence, on either side of the young girl. Larger trees can be seen in the yard, and a telephone pole in the
background. Location: Pala Indian Reservation, San Diego, California.
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P001144
04/1923
Description: Photograph, black & white. Image of a Cupeño girl and two boys, standing in front of a fence and bushes. The taller boy wears
a cap. Both boys wear dungarees, and the girl wears a loose-fitting dress. Location: Pala Indian Reservation, San Diego, California.
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P001152
05/14/1927
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a group of twenty-one people standing outside in front of an arbor. The people on the right
are dressed in hats, vests, and clothing of the 1920s; they are standing next to and on top of a stone wall. The group includes
men, women, and children. Standing in foreground are two men wearing feather headresses, and eagle or condor feather bandoliers.
The man on the right is wearing a shirt, a tie, and pants which have decoration sewn up the sides; the older man in front
of him is Indian. Location: Mesa Grande Reservation in San Diego, California.
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P001155
02/27/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the San Luis Rey Mission, with a group of people in front. Location: Oceanside, California.
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P001156
02/27/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the San Luis Rey Mission, showing the bell tower with a tree framing it on the left. There
are people in front of the mission door, and one woman walking toward a car shown by one headlight in the lower right corner.
Location: Oceanside, California.
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P001158
03/14/1924
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a desert butte and nearby hills. Location: Carrizo Springs, Imperial County, california.
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P001160
03/14/1924
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the adobe ruins of the Vallecitos stage station in the southern California desert, taken
from the road. Location: Anza Borrego State Park, san Diego County, California.
Old Angel Face
P026836
05/14/1927
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of two men standing. In the background is a trellis and trees, it is out of focus. The men
wear feather headresses and eagle or condor feather bandoliers. On the far right and left are the cropped off images of two
men in suits looking on. Location: Mesa Grande Reservation, San Diego, California.
Baja California Norte, Mexico
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P001190
04/1923
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the ruins of the San Fernando Velicatá Mission, in Baja California. There are also the remains
of a low, stone wall in the foreground.
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P001194
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the ruins of an out building of El Rosario Mission, in Baja California. There is a man,
Guy Fleming, standing in front of the wall of the building.
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P001195
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the ruins of out buildings of El Rosario Mission, in Baja California. There is a man, Guy
Fleming, standing to the right of the buildings.
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P001218
03/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of an excavation into a mountainside, with wooden beams holding up the ceiling, and two wooden
hoppers just outside the entrance.
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P001220
03/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a 1920s car progressing down a dirt road on a mud flat between mountain ranges in Baja California.
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P001221
03/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of two 1920s cars progressing down a dirt road through the desert of northern Baja California,
with a mountain range behind them. The cars are passing an ocotillo plant.
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P001222
03/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of two 1920s cars progressing down a dirt road through the desert of northern Baja California.
The cars are passing an ocotillo plant, and a pitaya cactus, as well as other desert bushes.
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P001223
03/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of two 1920s cars progressing down a dirt road through the desert of northern Baja California.
The cars are passing an ocotillo plant, and other desert bushes.
El Mayor. Baja California Norte, Mexico
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P001219
03/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the Rio Hardy, with a San Diego Natural History vehicle stopped on the dirt road next to
a bend in the river. There is a fence to the left.
El Rosario, Baja California Norte, Mexico
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P001202
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of eight or ten homes and buildings in El Rosario, Baja California. In the foreground are paths,
bushes, a small ramada, and fences.
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P001203
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of seven children standing in a row next to the wall of an adobe home with a thatched roof.
There is another such home beside the first one. Only the smallest and the tallest children are wearing shoes. All but two
boys wear hats.
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P001204
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a woman standing, posing for the camera. She wears a white cotton (manta) skirt and blouse,
and a dark-colored neckerchief. She stands in front of a stand of willows.
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P001205
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the San Diego Natural History Museum camp, and people who are visiting the camp. There is
a 1920s style car in front of a white tent. Women and men stand around another car. At far right, partially in view, is a
man on horseback.
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P001206
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a woman with six children, including an infant she is holding, at the San Diego Natural
History Museum camp near El Rosario, Baja California.
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P001208
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of two side-by-side adobe houses with thatched roofs. El Rosario, Baja California.
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P001209
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a shed of two parts made of staves, with thatched roofs. There are four geese to the left,
and possibly a chicken entering a low door in the right-hand shed.
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P001210
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a wattle and daub house with thatched roof. El Rosario, Baja California.
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P001211
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a Mexican woman doing laundry in a wooden trough with legs. Two small children are with
her.
Laguna Salada, Baja California Norte, Mexico
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P001187
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a salt work: flat expanses of sea water in segragated beds for evaporation. Several small
sheds can be seen on the distant shore.
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P001188
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of two men squatting on the salt works, examining a chunk of salt that they have chopped of
with the hand axe one man is holding. Both men wear hats and eye glasses.
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P001189
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of Laguna Salada, with a low mountain range in the background.
San Felipe, Baja California Norte, Mexico
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P001215
03/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a brush house complex with a fenced area and large mesquite tree to the left. A woman stands
in the doorway, and there are two (probable) goats within a fenced area in front of the house
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P001216
03/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a brush house complex next to an irrigation canal. The house has a sheet or other cloth
hung across the doorway. There is a single log bridge across the canal.
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P001217
03/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a brush house complex with a wooden door. An old wagon is to the left of the house, and
another is in the background.
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P001228
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a Yaqui village and camp on the beach at San Felipe, Baja California. There is a large white
tent in the center, and two boats pulled up onto the beach. There is a mountain range in the distance.
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P001229
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a rocky promontory and beach at San Felipe, Baja California, looking south.
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P001230
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a bay and beach, with a rocky mountain north of it. San Felipe, Baja California, looking
north.
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P001231
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a bay, beach, and rocky promontory, with a mountain in the left distance. San Felipe, Baja
California, looking north.
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P001232
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a bay and rocky promontory, with a mountain in the left distance. San Felipe, Baja California,
looking north.
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P001236
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of five men standing in front of a ramada-style, brush house. Buckets and metal cans litter
the ground in front of them.
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P001237
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of four men standing; with three men and two small boys sitting and/or reclining on the ground
next to a large, low, rectangular cement structure. Behind them is a ramada roof, with a canvas tent beyond.
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P001238
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a ramshackle brush house. There are sand dunes in the background.
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P001240
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of three women with buckets, collecting oysters off the rocks at the edge of the Gulf of California
near San Felipe. A dog accompanies them.
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P001241
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of six men and three dogs, standing in and around a boat which is in the water. There is a
rocky promontory to the left.
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P001242
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of six men and three dogs, standing in and around a boat which is in the water. There is a
rocky promontory to the left.
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P001243
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a man and a small boy standing by many large fish on the shore. About half of a panga shows
at the left of the photo.
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P001244
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of two men with large fish on a pole between them. They are headed over a sand dune toward
a vehicle into which they will load the fish. A dog follows them down the slope. Two other vehicles are in the distance.
San Quintin, Baja California Norte, Mexico
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P001184
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of houses, cars, a man walking, a horse standing, and tall trees.
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P001185
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a school house which is two-story in the center, with a lean-to on the back, and a porch
on the front. There is a sand dune encroaching upon the porch. There is a body of water behind the building.
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P001186
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of an abandoned hotel, two-story, wooden building. There are pine trees around it. There is
a car in the distant left background.
San Vicente, Baja California Norte, Mexico
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P001172
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of two houses with thatched roofs, in San Vicente, Baja California. One house has a fenced-in
front yard. In front of the houses are both a buckboard wagon and an automobile.
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P001173
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the ruins of San Vicente Mission, Baja California, Mexico. Two rather tall sections of adobe
wall still stand.
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P001174
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the graveyard at San Vicente, Baja California, Mexico. Four graves have brightly whitewashed
structures. The rest of the graves are marked by crosses. There is an adobe wall
RESTRICTED
Photograph is restricted. Please contact SDMoM for more information.
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P001175
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the ruins of the San Vicente Mission, Baja California, Mexico. There are several sections
of wall still jutting upward. There is a mountain range in the background.
Santo Domingo, Baja California Norte, Mexico
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P001177
05/195
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the ruins of the Santo Domingo Mission, Baja California, Mexico, from a different angle
than that P001176 was taken. There are still several walls upright. Behind the mission are a line of trees, and a road upon
which is travelling a man in a cart pulled by a burro, with hills in the distance.
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P001178
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a wood siding ranch house with a screened porch which has a flowering plant, possibly bouganvilla,
growing over it. On the close side of the house are flowering plants and banana trees, and at the other end is a palm tree.
A woman with her head down stands in front of the house.
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P001179
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a house with adobe brick walls and wood shingle roof and a vine arched over the door. There
is a dog sleeping on the ground in front of the house. To the right are other houses, banana trees, and possibly grape vines.
In the distance is a large butte.
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P001180
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a white-washed adobe building with wood shingle roof and two doors. There is a man standing
in one doorway, watching another man fasten up a large sack. To the left of this man are other full sacks. To the right of
the building are banana trees, and to the left some very large trees (California pepper or eucalyptus).
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P001181
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a rocky butte of possibly limestone. There are two possible pine trees and some shrubs at
the base of the butte.
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P001182
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & whtie. Image of the village of Santo Domingo, Baja California. There are a number of houses, fenced-off
fields, and a large pile of hay. A dirt road curves to the left and around through the village. Mountains rise on either side
of the village in the background.
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P001183
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a road sign on a tall wood stump. The sign reads "Camino nuevo para San Quintin." There
are mesquite bushes behind the sign.
Santo Tomas, Baja California Norte, Mexico
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P001170
06/28/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the ruins of the Santo Tomás Mission, Baja California. It was an adobe church, and not much
remains of the walls--only several sections. A mountain range is in the background.
Valle la Trinidad, Baja California, Mexico
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P001252
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a pack train with hides and dried beef.
Bear Dance
P001131
07/1910
Description: Photograph, black & white. Image of two human figures standing in front of a white wall and a dark wall. Both figures hold
staffs and are dressed in fabric shirts and kilts. The figures are angled in a pose. Next to figure on right is a corner of
a window frame. The faces of these figures are covered in a mask that looks like a bear with small rounded ears and slits
for the eyes nose and mouth. Location: Mesa Grande Reservation, San Diego, California.
Bear Dance
S007866
07/1910
Description: Transparency, black & white. Image of two human figures standing in front of a white wall and a dark wall. Both figures hold
staffs and are dressed in fabric shirts and kilts. The figures are angled in a pose. Next to figure on right is a corner of
a window frame. The faces of these figures are covered in a mask that looks like a bear with small rounded ears and slits
for the eyes nose and mouth. Location: Mesa Grande Reservation, San Diego, California.
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P001169
06/28/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the ruins of the Santo Tomás Mission, Baja California. It was an adobe church, and not much
remains of the walls--only a few sections. A man's shadow is in the foreground. Location: Santo Tomás, Baja California Norte,
Mexico.
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P001176
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the ruins of the Santo Domingo Mission, Baja California, Mexico. There are still several
walls upright. Behind the mission are a few houses with thatched roofs, and a line of trees, with hills in the distance. Location:
Santo Domingo, Baja California Norte, Mexico.
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P001139
1926
Language of Material:
English
Description: Photograph, black & white. Image of the Pala Mission, showing bell tower with "sacred cactus", at right. There is a small
chapel to the left, with people standing in front of it. Location: Pala Reservation, San Diego, California.
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P001140
1926
Description: Photograph, black & white. Image of the Pala Mission, showing bell tower on a large stone base, with a partial view of a circular
fountain structure in front of the tower. There is a low stone wall between the tower and the fountain. Location: Pala Reservation
in San Diego, California.
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P001154
1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the ruins of the San Luis Rey Mission. There is an old California pepper tree in the background,
as well as a possible water tower. Location: Oceanside, San Diego, California.
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P001157
03/14/1924
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a pile of stones (a grave), once surrounded by a wood fence, in the desert. Location: Jacumba,
San Diego County, California.
RESTRICTED
Photograph is restricted. Please contact SDMoM for more information.
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P001159
03/14/1924
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the adobe ruins of the Vallecitos stage station in the southern California desert. Location:
Anza Borrego State Park, San Diego, California.
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P001251
06/1923
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of Nascho drying wild tabacco at Valladares Creek, Sierra San Pedro Martir.
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P001253
07/1924
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a settlement at El Rayo, Sierra Juarez.
Untitled P001254
07/1924
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a sheep flock near Rancho El Rayo.
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P001255
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a shepard with sheep near Rancho El Rayo.
Baja California Norte, Mexico
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P001165
06/1924
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a ranch on the shore of the Pacific Ocean below Tijuana. It includes a wood shingle house,
a well-fenced-in garden, and a water tank on wooden stilts. Agave plants scatter the hillside in the foreground. In the background
is a dirt road curving around the hill beyond the ranch. There is a sand beach and, in the distance, a point juts out into
the ocean. The location is Baja California Norte, Mexico.
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P001166
02/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a camp on the shore of the Pacific Ocean below Tijuana. It includes two white canvas tents,
several barrels, and several wooden fish traps. There is a single boat pulled up in front of the tents, and a man standing
in front of the closest tent, talking to someone inside. the location is Baja California Norte, Mexico.
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P001167
02/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a settlement in a canyon in Baja California. There are two buildings of adobe and/or stone
bricks, with thatched roofs. In the foreground is a stone circle with a tire in the center and a stick. There is also an empty
stone circle to the left. Between the tire circle and the house a small boy plays with a wheel. A dirt road comes in from
the right. The location is Jatay, Baja California Norte, Mexico.
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P001171
04/1923
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of two houses with thatched roofs, in San Vicente, Baja California. There are stick fences
around the houses. A man walks by one fence at the left of the photo.
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P001191
04/1923
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the ruins of El Rosario Mission, in Baja California. The ruins are to the left of an adobe
chapel which is still standing. The location is Baja California Norte, Mexico.
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P001192
04/1923
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the ruins of El Rosario Mission, in Baja California. There is a crossed pole with two bells
hanging from it. This view is from a different angle than the view in P001193. The location is Baja California Norte, Mexico.
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P001193
04/1923
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the ruins of El Rosario Mission, in Baja California. There is a crossed pole with two bells
hanging from it. This view is from a different angle than the view in P001192. the location is Baja California Norte, Mexico.
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P027122
04/1923
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of the ruins of the San Fernando Velicatá Mission, in Baja California. There are also the remains
of a low, stone wall in the foreground.
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P027123
04/1923
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of five men sitting on a bench, and one man standing next to a white-washed building in El
Rosario, Baja California. To the left of the building is a wooden slat structure, possibly a grave enclosure.
El Rosario, Baja California Norte, Mexico
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P001196
04/1923
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a Mexican house east of El Rosario, in Baja California. There are two adobe buildings with
thatched roofs next to each other. To the right of the house, four women are standing in front of a fence.
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P001197
04/1923
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a Mexican house east of El Rosario, in Baja California. There are two adobe buildings with
thatched roofs next to each other. To the right of the house, four women are standing in front of a fence.
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P001198
04/1923
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of houses in a row, in El Rosario, Baja California. In the foreground there is a boy on a donkey,
pulling a barrel.
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P001199
04/1923
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a white-washed building in El Rosario, Baja California. To the left of the building are
wooden slat structures, possibly grave enclosures. A group of men stand and sit next to the building. A loaded pickup truck
is to the left.
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P001200
04/1923
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of five men sitting on a bench, two men standing, and one leaning against a door frame, of
a white-washed building in El Rosario, Baja California. To the left of the building is a wooden slat structure, possibly a
grave enclosure.
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P001207
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of ten women and children, lined up beside a car at the San Diego Natural History Museum camp
near El Rosario, Baja California.
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P001212
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a Mexican man and his deer, on horseback, posing on a trail among willows.
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P001213
05/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a Mexican family consisting of two adults and eleven children. They stand in front of a
line of bushes, probably willow.
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P001214
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of two Mexican boys posing on a trail among willows. One boy is much taller than the other
one, and wears a floppy hat. The smaller boy wears a cap.
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P0027123
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of five men sitting on a bench, and one man standing next to a white-washed building in El
Rosario, Baja California. To the left of the building is a wooden slat structure, possibly a grave enclosure.
San Felipe, Baja California Norte, Mexico
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P001233
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a desert scene, with creosote bushes in the foreground, and a mountain in the background.
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P001234
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a desert scene, showing a stand of pitaya (garambullo) cactus. It is also called "Old Man"
cactus.
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P001235
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a desert scene, showing a close-up of a stand of pitaya (garambullo) cactus. It is also
called "Old Man" cactus.
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P001245
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Portrait of at least six boats on, and next to, the shore, with one or two men in each one. A group
of brush houses are on the beach in the background. The closest boat is named "Luchadora."
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P001246
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Portrait of two men with large fish on a long oar between them. They are headed across a beach. A
third man is going the opposite direction just behind the end of the oar.
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P001247
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of men beaching a dugout canoe at San Felipe.
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04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of fishermen cleaning their catch on the beach at San Felipe.
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P001249
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of fishermen cleaning their catch on the beach at San Felipe.
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P001250
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of truck drivers loading their trucks with fish at San Felipe.
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P001161
05/15/1901
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of an Indian cemetery in the distance. Some graves are covered with stones, some with dirt,
and some have wooden fences around them. There are a couple of cross headstones. Location: Baja California Norte, Mexico.
RESTRICTED
Photograph is restricted. Please contact SDMoM for more information.
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P001162
1901
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a sheep shearing session in a wooden corral-like structure. Many men are bent over, shearing;
others stand and watch. More sheep are in the lower left corner. Location: Baja California Norte, Mexico.
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P001163
1901
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of two thatched houses, and a horse-drawn cart with two people in it. Location: Baja California
Norte, Mexico.
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P001164
1901
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a man kneeling, holding something on the end of a pole over the fire to cook it. Another
man stands behind, watching. There is a large clump of prickley pear cactus to the right. Behind the men is a pole rack with
pans hanging on it. Location: Baja California, Norte, Mexico.
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P001145
1912
Description: Photograph, black & white. Image of a group of Cupeño people standing and sitting in a grotto of boulders surrounded by vegetation.
There are three women and one child. All of the women wear long dresses and head scarves. They were probably washing clothes
in water among the boulders, as there are items of clothing hanging on the tree and on bushes. Location: Warner Springs, San
Diego, California.
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P001146
1900
Description: Glass Plate Negative, black & white. Image of two Indian houses made of split logs, in a mountain meadow setting, with pine
and other trees in the background. There is a granary on top of the first house, and possibly a decayed one on top of the
second house. Location: Laguna Mountains, San Diego, California.
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P001150
1914
Description: Image of two huge granite boulders which lean together to form a shelter. Location: Pine Valley, San Diego, California.
California Building
P001264
11/30/1914
Description: Negative, black & white. Facade of the California Building, Balboa Park, San Diego, California.
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P001168
06/28/1925
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a settlement in a canyon in Baja California. There are two buildings of adobe and/or stone
bricks, with thatched roofs. In the foreground is a low dirt mound with a depression in the center. What may be hearts of
agave are laying on the ground next to the mound. Between the two houses what appears to be a still is set up, and a couple
of people are attending it. A dirt road comes in from the right. Location: Jatay, Baja California, Norte, Mexico.
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P001147
06/1926
Description: Photograph, black & white. Image of a large expanse of bedrock with a mortar hole in the center. There are several small rocks
sitting on the boulder. Location: Laguna Mountains, San Diego, California.
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P001148
Description: Photograph, black & white. Image of a large expanse of bedrock with a mortar hole in the center. Location: Laguna Mountains,
San Diego, California
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P001149
06/1926
Description: Photograph, black & white. Image of a close-up of the branches of a piñon pine tree. Location: Laguna Mountains of San Diego,
California.
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P001153
11/18/1927
Description: Negative, black & white. Image taken from an automobile of a pile of granite boulders along side the highway to Escondido,
California.
San Felipe, Baja California Norte, Mexico P001224
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P001224
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a village or camp on the northwestern shore of the Gulf of California. There is a boat grounded
in the foreground. In the distance is a village of small houses, huts, and tents. Many small boats are anchored in the bay,
and more are pulled up on the beach.
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P001225
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of small houses and ramadas on the northwestern shore of the Gulf of California at San Felipe.
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P001226
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of several small houses and ramadas on the northwestern shore of the Gulf of California at
San Felipe. In the distance is a mountain range.
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P001227
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a Yaqui man doing laundry, using a washboard, while two more Yaqui men stand by. A woman
can be seen at far left.
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P001239
04/1926
Description: Negative, black & white. Image of a large shell midden, with a rocky mountain slope beyond it.