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  • Overview of the Collection
  • Access
  • Administrative Information
  • Biographical Note
  • Sources consulted
  • Scope and Content
  • Related materials in the Huntington Library
  • Arrangement
  • Indexing Terms

  • Overview of the Collection

    Title: Ernest Marquez Photograph next hit Collection
    Dates (inclusive): 1860-2009
    Bulk dates: 1880s–1930s
    Collection Number: photCL 555
    Creator: Marquez, Ernest, 1924-
    Extent: Approximately 10,900 previous hit photographs next hit and negatives + ephemera, in 97 boxes.
    Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Photo Archives
    1151 Oxford Road
    San Marino, California 91108
    Phone: (626) 405-2191
    Email: reference@huntington.org
    URL: http://www.huntington.org
    Abstract: The Ernest Marquez previous hit Photograph next hit Collection contains photographic prints, negatives, previous hit photograph next hit albums and ephemera compiled by collector Ernest Marquez, focused on the development of Santa Monica and Los Angeles from 1860s to 1980s, as well as other cities throughout California. The collection notably contains many 19th-century cabinet cards and stereographs, and a rare group of negatives, ca. 1890-1908, by early Los Angeles historian and amateur photographer George W. Hazard documenting the city at the turn of the century.
    Language: English.

    Access

    Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.

    Administrative Information

    Publication Rights

    The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Ernest Marquez previous hit Photograph next hit Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

    Provenance

    Purchased from Ernest Marquez, January 2014.

    Biographical Note

    Ernest Marquez (b. 1924) is a descendant of Mexican land grantees who owned the 6,656-acre Rancho Boca de Santa Monica, comprising what is now Santa Monica Canyon and parts of Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades, California.
    He grew up in Santa Monica Canyon and attended Canyon School and Santa Monica High School, then served in the Navy during World War II. For most of his professional career, he worked as a commercial artist for aerospace companies, retiring in the 1980s. He began collecting historical previous hit photographs next hit in an effort to learn more about the history of his family and Santa Monica. His curiosity and interests soon reached beyond his own family's history, and he became a keen and well-known collector of images of Santa Monica, as well as early Los Angeles and Southern California. Over a period of 50 years, Marquez scoured flea markets, postcard shows and book fairs, and made discerning trades and purchases, amassing more than 10,000 previous hit photographs next hit depicting the history of Southern California from 1860 through the 1980s.
    Marquez also devoted time to researching and writing several books about the region's history, including: Santa Monica Beach: A Collector's Pictorial History (Angel City Press, 2004); Port of Los Angeles: An Illustrated History from 1850 to 1945, with Veronique De Turenne, (Angel City Press, 2007); and Noir Afloat: Tony Cornero and the Notorious Gambling Ships of Southern California (Angel City Press, 2011).
    In 2015, Marquez completed a personal project to create 34 decorative crosses for the graves in the small, historic Marquez Family Cemetery on San Lorenzo Street in Santa Monica Canyon. Marquez and his family care for and maintain the cemetery, which was established in the late 1840s.

    Sources consulted

    Marquez, Ernest and Veronique De Turenne. Port of Los Angeles: An Illustrated History from 1850 to 1945 (Angel City Press, 2007)
    Marquez, Ernest. Santa Monica Beach: A Collector's Pictorial History (Angel City Press, 2004)
    Newmark, Harris; edited by Maurice Harris Newmark, Marco Ross Newmark. Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913, Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark (The Knickerbocker Press, 1926)
    Johnson, Michele, ed. The Topanga Story - Expanded edition (Topanga Historical Society, 2012)

    Scope and Content

    This is a collection primarily of negatives and photographic prints depicting the growth of Santa Monica and Los Angeles from 1860s to 1980s. Many views are cityscapes or street views, showing buildings, storefronts, homes and roads, and documenting the use of railroads, trolleys, streetcars, and automobiles. There are many card previous hit photographs next hit by early professional photographers, and also a number of snapshots made by amateurs, some in personal photo albums. The collection's scope also includes early views of many other communities in Southern California (and a few in other states); the beginnings of aviation in Santa Monica, including the first Douglas Aircraft Company buildings; a photo album of residents in Topanga Canyon, ca. 1913; automobile racing in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, 1920s; maritime views; a photo album of U.S. troops in France during World War I; a 1949 real estate development in Apple Valley, California, and others. Besides previous hit photographs next hit , a portion of the collection consists of scarce publications and historical ephemera, primarily related to Santa Monica and Los Angeles, including brochures, advertising cards, menus, event programs and other materials.
    Highlights of the Santa Monica images are aerial views of the buildings along the coast and pier (1920s); several views of the Arcadia Hotel (1880s); the Long Wharf and adjoining railroad and train depot; the first bath houses on the beach; the beach club culture of the 1920s and 1930s; the amusement piers of Santa Monica, Ocean Park and Venice; and the beginnings of the Douglas Aircraft Company. There is a large set of promotional previous hit photographs next hit made late 1920s-1930s by Powell Press Service depicting people enjoying Santa Monica's beaches, clubs and outdoor recreation.
    An important subset within the collection is 407 negatives made ca. 1890 - 1908 by Los Angeles historian and amateur photographer George W. Hazard (1842-1914). Hazard travelled around Los Angeles and vicinity photographing the adobes, houses, streets and storefronts that told the early history of the city. Many of Hazard's negatives have handwritten identifications, naming streets, former homeowners, ranchos, and other historical details.
    There are a large number of cabinet cards and other card-mounted prints and stereographs. There are 1,264 stereograph prints, highlighted by the works of photographic pioneers William M. Godfrey, Francis Parker, Hayward & Muzzall, and Carleton Watkins. Other formats represented are: glass and film negatives; panoramic prints; 7 previous hit photograph next hit albums, photographic postcards, 20th-century color prints and transparencies; and a small number of tintypes, cyanotypes and a set of chromolithographs.

    Alternative Form of Materials Available

    Visit the Huntington Digital Library: previous hit Photographs next hit   to view digitized items from this collection.

    Related materials in the Huntington Library

    • California's Romantic Ranchos by Verne Dyson (unpublished manuscript and previous hit photographs next hit , mssHM 26404)
    • Hazard-Dyson previous hit Photograph next hit Collection (includes previous hit photographs next hit by George W. Hazard)

    Arrangement

    The collection is arranged in the following 10 series:
    • Series 01. Photographic prints (stereographs and panoramas are in separate series)
    • Series 02. previous hit Photograph next hit albums and accompanying items
      • Vol. 1 Robert Hutton Topanga Canyon album, 1913-1921, + 5 folders of loose previous hit photographs next hit
      • Vol. 2 Robert Hutton Santa Monica High School album and scrapbook, 1917-1921.
      • Vol. 3 Theresa Sletton Topanga Canyon album, ca. 1913
      • Vol. 4 Apple Valley Ranchos previous hit photograph next hit album, 1949
      • Vol. 5 Travel album of San Diego and vicinity, ca. 1910s
      • Vol. 6 previous hit Photograph next hit album of California and travels in the West, ca. 1915 -1933
      • Vol. 7 World War I previous hit photograph next hit album: "Photographic History of the A.E.F. in France, 1917-1919" + 6 folders of photographic postcards (accompanying album)
    • Series 03. Stereographs
    • Series 04. Panoramas
    • Series 05. Glass negatives
    • Series 06. Film negatives
      • George W. Hazard negatives, ca. 1890-1908
      • Powell Press Service negatives, ca. 1930s
      • George Haley, "Los Angeles Evening Herald" negatives (bulk 1940s-50s)
      • Bob Plunkett negatives (ca. 1928–1953)
      • Other film negatives – various dates
    • Series 07. Ephemera and publications
    • Series 08. Copy prints
    • Series 09. Copy negatives
    • Series 10. Research files and original negative envelopes

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Huntington Library's Online Catalog.  

    Subjects

    Biscailuz, Eugene W., 1883-1969 -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Bowron, Fletcher, 1887-1968 -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Douglas, Donald W. (Donald Wills), 1892-1981 -– previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Gage, Henry Tifft, 1852-1924 – Homes and haunts – previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Garfias, Manuel – Homes and haunts – previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Guinn, J. M. (James Miller), 1834-1918 -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Jones, John P. (John Percival), 1829-1912 – Homes and haunts – previous hit Photographs next hit .
    King, Andrew Jackson, 1833-1923 -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Machado family – Homes and haunts – previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Oldfield, Barney, 1878-1946 -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Peralta family – Homes and haunts – previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Rolph, James, 1869-1934 -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Sepulveda family – Homes and haunts – previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Temple, Francis Pliny F., 1822-1880 – Homes and haunts – previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Workman, William, 1799-1876 – Homes and haunts – previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Adobe houses -- California -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Airplane factories -- California – Santa Monica -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Airplanes -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Airports -- California -- Los Angeles -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Airships -- United States -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Amusement piers -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Apartment houses -- California -- Los Angeles -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Archery -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Architecture, Domestic -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Automobile racing -- California -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Bathing beauties -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Battleships -- United States -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Beaches -- California -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Beauty contests—California -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Bernheimer Gardens (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Bernheimer Gardens (Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Boats and boating -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Brewing industry – California -- Los Angeles -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Cemeteries -- California -- Los Angeles -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Cemeteries -- California -- Santa Monica Canyon (Los Angeles County) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Chinese -- California -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Chinese Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Criminals -- California -- Los Angeles.
    Douglas Aircraft Company -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument (Los Angeles, Calif.)-- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Estudillo House (San Diego, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Fire stations -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Funeral rites and ceremonies -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Girl Scouts of the United States of America -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Golf courses -- California -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Los Angeles evening herald and express -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Los Angeles International Airport -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    High school students -- California -- Los Angeles -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Horsemanship -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Hotels -- California -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Housing development -- United States -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    La Fiesta de Los Angeles -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Leisure -- California, Southern -- History.
    Los Angeles Railway -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Los Angeles Transit Lines -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Oil fields -- California -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Santa Barbara Mission -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Missions, Spanish -- California -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Motion pictures -- Setting and scenery -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Mount Lowe Railway -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (Mission : Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Olympic Games (10th : 1932 : Los Angeles, Calif.)-- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Pacific Electric Railway Company -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Parades -- California -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Parks -- California -- Los Angeles -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Piers -- California -- Santa Monica -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Pioneers -- California, Southern.
    Plaza Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Railroads -- Buildings and structures -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Railroad stations -- California -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Raymond Hotel (Pasadena, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Recreation – Southern California -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Real estate development -- California – San Bernardino County -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Ruins -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Schools -- California -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Schoolchildren -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Shipwrecks -- California -- Honda, Point -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Soldiers' homes -- California -- Santa Monica -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
    Theaters -- California -- Los Angeles -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Tourism -- California, Southern -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    University of California, Los Angeles -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Van Nuys Airport -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Water-supply -- California -- Los Angeles -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Agoura Hills (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Alhambra (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Apple Valley (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Arcadia (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Arrowhead Springs (Calif.)
    Artesia (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Azusa (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Bel Air (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Beverly Hills (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Brentwood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Culver City (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Glendale (Calif.)-- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Hermosa Beach (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Hollister Ranch (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Inglewood (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Laguna Beach (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Long Beach (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Los Angeles (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Los Angeles County (Calif.) -- History -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Malibu (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Marina del Rey (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Monterey (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Newhall (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Olvera Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Oxnard (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Pasadena (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Piru, Lake (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Rancho Cañón de Santa Ana (Calif.) - previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Rancho La Ballona -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Rancho La Puente -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Rancho Palos Verdes (Calif.)-- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Rancho San Antonio (Calif.)-- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Rancho San Pascual (Calif.)-- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Redlands (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Redondo Beach (Calif.)-- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Riverside County (Calif.)-- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    San Bernardino County (Calif.)-- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    San Diego (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    San Diego County (Calif.)-- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    San Gabriel (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    San Fernando (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    San Fernando Valley (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    San Francisco (Calif.)-- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)-- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Santa Barbara (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Santa Catalina Island (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Santa Monica (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Santa Monica Canyon (Los Angeles County, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    South Pasadena (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Topanga (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Ventura (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Ventura County (Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Wilmington (Los Angeles, Calif.)-- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Wilson, Mount (Calif. : Mountain) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
    United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- previous hit Photographs next hit .

    Forms/Genres

    previous hit Photographs next hit .
    Negatives.
    Postcards.
    Chromolithographs.
    Tintypes.
    Cyanotypes.
    Panoramic previous hit photographs next hit .
    Stereographs.
    previous hit Photograph next hit albums.
    Ephemera.

    Contributors

    Allen, D. C. (Darwin C.), photographer.
    Bailey, Chas. Z. (Charles Z.), photographer.
    Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966, photographer
    Bierstadt, Charles, 1819-1903., photographer.
    Blanchard, James B., photographer.
    Bonine, Elias A., 1843-1916, photographer.
    Bonine, R. (Robert K.), photographer.
    Brewster, John Calvin, photographer.
    Brigandi, Philip, 1873-1945, photographer.
    Clarke, William M., photographer.
    Davis, James M., photographer.
    Ellis, Lemuel S., approximately 1842-1902, photographer.
    Fletcher, W. H. (William H.), photographer.
    Frese, Adolf, photographer.
    Godfrey, W. M. (William Mollock), 1825-1900, photographer.
    Haley, George W., 1879-1963, photographer
    Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921, photographer.
    Hazard, George Washington, 1842-1914, photographer.
    Hazeltine, M. M. (Martin Mason), 1827-1903, photographer.
    Houseworth, Thomas, 1829-1915, photographer.
    Jackson, B. D., 1850 or 1851-1937, photographer.
    Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942, photographer.
    Johnson, C. W. J. (Charles Wallace Jacob), 1833-1903, photographer.
    Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909, photographer.
    Morrison, E. G., -1888, photographer.
    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904, photographer.
    Parker, F. (Francis), photographer.
    Parker, Joseph C. (Joseph Chamberland), 1834-1910, photographer.
    Payne, H. T., approximately 1845-, photographer.
    Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946, photographer.
    Pierce, Edward W., photographer.
    Plunkett, Bob, photographer
    Putnam, J. R., photographer.
    Rea, William J., photographer.
    Reilly, John James, 1838-1894, photographer.
    Rieder, M., photographer.
    Rile, H. F., 1860-1949, photographer.
    Schumacher, Frank G., 1861- photographer.
    Stanton, T. E. (Thomas E.), photographer.
    Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912, photographer.
    Tuttle, W. N., photographer.
    Tyler, O. E., active 1883-1884, photographer.
    Varela, A. C. (Alexander C.), 1839-1915, photographer.
    Waite, C. B. (Charles Betts), 1861-1927, photographer.
    Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916, photographer.
    Weaver, M. F. (Miles F.), 1879-1932, photographer.
    Wesner, H. B., photographer.
    Westervelt, James D., 1844-, photographer.
    Withey, Henry F., architect.
    California Art Foto Company, photographer.
    Charles Beseler Co., photographer.
    Continent Stereoscopic Company, photographer.
    E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm), photographer.
    Ellis & Son (Los Angeles, Calif.), photographer.
    F. H. Rogers & Co., photographer.
    Garden City Photo Co., photographer.
    Graham Photo Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.), photographer.
    Griffith & Griffith, photographer.
    H. C. White Co., photographer.
    Hayward & Muzzall, photographer.
    Jarvis (Firm : Pasadena, Calif.), photographer.
    Kelley & Chadwick, photographer.
    Keystone View Company, photographer.
    Payne, Stanton & Co., 1881-1886, photographer.
    Powell Press Service, photographer.
    Putnam & Valentine, photographer.
    Spence Air Photos (Firm), photographer.
    Strohmeyer & Wyman, photographer.
    Underwood & Underwood, photographer.
    Universal Photo Art Co., photographer.
    Webster & Albee, photographer.