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Folder 07_82

Denver, Colorado.

Physical Description: 7 items and 1 volume

Includes: Denver and the Mountain Parks. [191-?] Denver: H. H. Tammen Co. (illustrations)

Folder 07_83

New York.

Physical Description: 4 items

Includes souvenir books:

Bartholdi: Statue of Liberty. New York: The Albertype Co., 1889. (illustrations)
New York Album. [ca. 1900?] Portland, Me.: Chisholm Brothers. (illustations)

Box 82

Other U.S., cont'd.; Foreign; Subjects (folders 07_84 - 07_99)

Folder 07_84

Niagara Falls: Niagara in Summer and Winter. [Philadelphia]: J. Murray Jordan. [ca. 1904]

Physical Description: 1 volume (chiefly photographs)

Folder 07_85

Washington D.C.

Physical Description: 1 item and 1 volume

Includes: Washington Album (ca. 1900s, illustrations)

Foreign.

Related Material

See Box 83 for oversize item: Baja Landmark: Historic Rosarito Beach Hotel. [ca. 1984]. Brochure. (Box 83, Folder 07_102)

Folder 07_86

Marsden, E. Easy Lessons in Indian History. London: Macmillan and Co. 1902

Folder 07_87

Souvenir of the Panama Canal. Panama City: I. L. Maduro Jr. (illustrations). [ca. 1914?]

Subjects.

Related Material

See Box 83 for oversize World War II item: Headline History of Second World War. Reproductions of 50 "Los Angeles Examiner" newspaper front pages, 1941-1945 (Box 83, Folder 07_101)

Folder 07_88

Astronautics.

Physical Description: 8 items and 1 volume

Includes: Space Handbook: Astronautics and its Applications. Staff Report of the Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration. United States Government Printing Office, 1959.

Folder 07_89

Aviation.

Physical Description: 3 items and 1 volume

McDonnell Douglas, 1920-1970: 50 years of service to the community, the nation and the world.

Folder 07_90

Business and products.

Physical Description: 12 items

Folder 07_91

Cards: tobacco cards (2); mourning card (1); Buffalo Bill's Wild West postcards (3).

Physical Description: 6 items

Folder 07_92

Legal and financial booklets published by banks, ca. 1920s.

Physical Description: 6 items

Titles: Women's Property Rights in California ; California Inheritance Taxes and Federal Estate Taxes ; Our Fees as Executor and Trustee ; California Tax Law on Intangible Property ; First liens in the most desirable form ; In Conference: Dr. Rayburn interviews the trust officer...

Folder 07_93

Maritime.

Physical Description: 7 items

Folder 07_94

Medical handbooks.

Physical Description: 2 items

Advice book for women (1902) and Handbook of First Aid. published by Johnson & Johnson (1903).

Folder 07_95

Minstrels.

Physical Description: 1 volume

Bones, His Gags and Stump Speeches. New York: Wehman Brothers, 1879.

Folders 07_96 - 07_97

Photographic processes.

Microphotography promotional publication: Photography in Banking with Recordak. [1930s?] and one example of "Life Motion Photograph," patented 1910-1911 by G. Felsenthal & Sons, Chicago.

3-D glasses and 3-D images printed on paper, ca. 1950s.

Folder 07_98

Politics - Presidential.

Physical Description: 6 items, 2 volumes, 1 sound recording

Includes:

U. S. Grant Album. 1886 [Ulysses S. Grant](illustrations)
Yorty, Samuel W. I Cannot Take Kennedy. [ca.1950s]
1 sound recording: extended play 33 1/3 rpm vinyl record: Presidential Profiles: John F. Kennedy "The Presidents Speak." Narrated by Art Baker. Los Angeles: Kaysons International, 1966.

Folder 07_99

Trains.

Physical Description: 3 items and 1 volume

Includes: Album of Erie Railway Scenery. (illustrations) New York: Wittemann Brothers, 1882.

Box 83

Oversize Ephemera (folders 07_100 - 07_105)

Folder 07_100

The "Monarch" Souvenir of Sunset City and Sunset Scenes Being Views of California Midwinter Fair and Famous Scenes in the Golden State. A series of pictures taken by I. W. Taber, official photographer of the Midwinter Fair.

Physical Description: 8 portfolios

Published weekly by H. S. Crocker Co., 1894. (8 portfolios of halftone photomechanical prints: nos. 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15.)

Folder 07_101

World War II - Headline History of Second World War.

Physical Description: 1 volume

Reproductions of 50 "Los Angeles Examiner" newspaper front pages, 1941-1945.

Folder 07_102

Baja Landmark: Historic Rosarito Beach Hotel ca. 1984

Physical Description: 1 item

Folder 07_103

World War I - Santa Monica's Part in the World War, 1918.

Issued by the "Los Angeles Examiner," 48 p. Includes numerous photographs and names of residents who fought in the war.

Folder 07_104

Street map of Santa Monica, 1932, by Oliver F. Peasnall.

Published by Santa Monica-Ocean Park Chamber of Commerce.

Folder 07_104

Promotional poster for Santa Monica, highlighting Pacific Electric Railroad. ca. 1920s

Physical Description: 2 copies

Folder 07_105

San Diego.

Physical Description: Clippings and 1 volume

Scope and Content Note

Includes:

Clippings related to San Diego, 1886 and 1898.
San Diego, the Birthplace of California. [A volume of] Kingdom of the Sun. The art magazine de luxe for the library table de luxe, containing over one hundred camera catches flashed from the big out-of-doors of Southern California. Oro Grande, California: Lillian D. Gregory, ca. 1915. (Over 100 halftone photographs)

Series 08. Copy prints

Physical Description: 1,388 photographs in 6 boxes; 8 x 10 inches and smaller.

Scope and Content Note

These are late 20th century copies of historical photographs primarily from 1870s – 1930s. The source of the original photograph is unknown in most cases. Some prints have writing or stamps on the backs. Some of these images are also in negative form in "Series 09. Copy negatives," but many are not.

Box 84

Copy prints - Los Angeles (folders 08_01 - 08_10)

Folders 08_01 – 08_05

Los Angeles – General.

Physical Description: 126 items

Folder 08_06

Los Angeles – Chinatown.

Physical Description: 16 items

Folder 08_07

Los Angeles – Angel's Flight.

Physical Description: 6 items

Folder 08_08

Los Angeles – Streetcars and Cable Railway.

Physical Description: 6 items

Folder 08_09

Los Angeles – Plaza and Plaza Church; Pico House.

Physical Description: 22 items

Folder 08_10

Los Angeles – Olvera Street; Casa de Adobe. ca. 1920s

Physical Description: 20 items

Box 85

Copy prints - Los Angeles County: Beverly Hills - Inglewood (folders 08_11 - 08_22)

Folders 08_11 – 08_13

Beverly Hills.

Physical Description: 70 items

Folder 08_14

Catalina Island.

Physical Description: 18 items

Folder 08_15

Dana Point and Doheny State Park.

Physical Description: 9 items

Folder 08_16

Hermosa Beach.

Physical Description: 6 items

Folders 08_17 – 08_20

Hollywood; Hollywood Bowl; Cahuenga Pass; Hollywood Freeway.

Physical Description: 105 items

Folder 08_21

Inglewood - Aerial views. 1964-1968

Physical Description: 29 items

Folder 08_22

Inglewood, including portraits of Daniel and Grace Freeman.

Physical Description: 32 items

Box 86

Copy prints - Los Angeles County: Long Beach - San Fernando Valley (folders 08_23 - 08_34)

Folders 08_23 – 08_24

Long Beach, including earthquake destruction. 1933

Physical Description: 39 items

Folder 08_25

Malibu.

Physical Description: 21 items

Folder 08_26

Manhattan Beach.

Physical Description: 7 items

Folder 08_27

Pacific Palisades.

Physical Description: 17 items

Folder 08_28

Palos Verdes.

Physical Description: 14 items

Folder 08_29

Pasadena; San Gabriel Mountains and Mt. Lowe Railway.

Physical Description: 7 items

Folder 08_30

Playa del Rey; La Ballona.

Physical Description: 15 items

Folders 08_31 – 08_32

Redondo Beach.

Physical Description: 54 items

Folder 08_33

San Fernando Valley – General.

Physical Description: 18 items

Folder 08_34

San Fernando Valley – Burbank; Calabasas; Canoga Park.

Physical Description: 22 items

Box 87

Copy prints - Los Angeles County: San Fernando Valley (cont'd.) - Westwood (folders 08_35 - 08_46)

Folder 08_35

San Fernando Valley – Chatsworth; Encino; Girard.

Physical Description: 19 items

Folder 08_36

San Fernando Valley – North Hollywood; San Fernando.

Physical Description: 15 items

Folder 08_37

San Fernando Valley – Van Nuys; Universal City.

Physical Description: 12 items

Folders 08_38 – 08_42

Santa Monica.

Physical Description: 133 items

Folder 08_43

Topanga Canyon.

Physical Description: 16 items

Folder 08_44

Venice.

Physical Description: 17 items

Folders 08_45 – 08_46

Westwood and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus.

Physical Description: 33 items

Copies of photographs by Adelbert Bartlett and Bob Plunkett.

Related Material

For the original negatives in collection, see Series 06.

Box 88

Copy prints - Other California, California Missions, Aviation, Maritime (folders 08_47 - 08_58)

Folder 08_47

Orange County – Hermosa Beach; Huntington Beach.

Physical Description: 6 items

Folder 08_48

Orange County – Laguna Beach.

Physical Description: 9 items

Folders 08_49 – 08_50

Orange County – Newport Beach; Balboa.

Physical Description: 66 items

Folder 08_51

Orange County – Sunset Beach.

Physical Description: 2 items

Folder 08_52

Riverside County – Lake Elsinore; Murrieta Hot Springs.

Physical Description: 6 items

Folder 08_53

Other Southern California – Camp Kearny; Del Mar train depot; San Luis Obispo; Summerland.

Physical Description: 10 items

Folder 08_54

California Missions – San Antonio de Padua; San Fernando.

Physical Description: 22 items

Folder 08_55

California Missions – San Juan Capistrano.

Physical Description: 11 items

Folder 08_56

Aviation.

Physical Description: 51 items

Folders 08_57 – 08_58

Maritime.

Physical Description: 65 items

Box 89

Copy prints - Trains, Mining, Lighthouses, Portraits, Movie stars (folders 08_59 - 08_66)

Folder 08_59

Trains.

Physical Description: 11 items

Folder 08_60

Mining.

Physical Description: 7 items

Folder 08_61

Lighthouses.

Physical Description: 7 items

Folder 08_62

Senator John P. Jones - portraits.

Physical Description: 5 items

Folders 08_63 – 08_66

Movie star head shots and film production stills. bulk 1940s-1950s

Physical Description: 186 items

Series 09. Copy negatives

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Physical Description: Approximately 980 negatives in 4 boxes ; chiefly 4 x 5 inches and smaller.

Access Information

RESTRICTED. Available with curator approval. Extended retrieval and delivery time required.

Scope and Content Note

These are late 20th century copies of historical photographs primarily from 1870s – 1930s. The source of the original photograph is unknown in most cases. The majority of these negatives were made by Ernest Marquez by re-photographing another photograph. The negatives are in sleeves as received, some with minimal identifications in Marquez's writing. Some of these images are also in print form in "Series 08. Copy prints," but many are not.

A selection of these negatives have been digitized and can be viewed in the Huntington Digital Library.

Box 90

Los Angeles; Beverly Hills; Catalina Island; Century City; Culver City; Hermosa Beach; Hollywood; Huntington Beach; Long Beach; Malibu; Mount Lowe; Pacific Palisades; Playa del Rey; Redondo Beach; San Fernando Valley; San Pedro; Los Angeles Harbor.

Physical Description: Approximately 400 items

Box 91

Santa Monica

Physical Description: Approximately 400 items

Box 92

Santa Monica Canyon; Topanga Canyon; Venice; Pacific Electric streetcars; San Diego; San Francisco; Truckee, Ca.; Redwoods and lumbering; California Missions; Maritime; People: Arcadia Bandini de Baker; Jose Maria Bandini; Juan Baptiste Bandini; Luis M. Enriquez.

Physical Description: Approximately 150 items

Box 93

Beverly Hills; Catalina Island (panoramas); San Fernando Mission (panorama); Los Angeles Aqueduct opening, 1913 (panorama); Los Angeles; Malibu; Pacific Palisades; "San Fernando Valley" Pacific Electric streetcar; San Pedro/Los Angeles Harbor; Santa Monica; Venice; Balboa Beach beauty contest.

Physical Description: 34 items ; 8 x 10 inches.

Series 10. Research files and original negative envelopes

Physical Description: 3 boxes

Box 94

Research files.

Ernest Marquez's research files consist mostly of newspaper clippings and photocopies of articles, maps, and promotional material. Folders 10_12 – 10_18 contain Marquez's notes on specific photographs in this collection.

Folders 10_01 - 10_04

Los Angeles (4 folders)

Includes copies of late 19th-century cable car route maps and city maps.

Folder 10_05

Inglewood.

Folder 10_06

Playa del Rey and first families of La Ballona Valley.

Folder 10_07

San Fernando Valley.

Folders 10_08 - 10_09

Santa Monica (2 folders).

Folder 10_10

Topanga Canyon.

Folder 10_11

Ventura.

Folders 10_12 - 10_13

Notes on photographs in collection: Los Angeles and vicinity (2 folders).

Folder 10_14

Notes on photographs in collection: Other Southern California areas.

Folders 10_15 - 10_18

Notes on photographs in collection: Santa Monica (4 folders).

Original negative envelopes.

Some (not all) glass and film negatives were received in envelopes with handwritten or typed information. Any identifying information was transcribed to the new sleeves when the negatives were re-housed. The original envelopes were retained, and are arranged below by item number.

Box 95

Original envelopes: Folders 10_19 - 10_30

Folders 10_19 – 10_22

Original envelopes: Glass negatives.

Envelopes for some negatives in this range: (05_01) – (05_187)

Folder 10_23

Original envelopes: George Hazard, photographer.

No envelopes; only part of an original cardboard negative box with handwriting: "G. W. Hazard. The Malibu. Lettered."

Folders 10_24 – 10_27

Original envelopes: Powell Press Service, photographer.

Envelopes for some negatives in this range: (06_458) – (06_1513). Also, a 1933 press release that accompanied (06_1472) – (06_1477).

Folder 10_28

Original envelopes: George Haley, photographer.

Envelopes for some negatives in this range: (06_1517) – (06_1600).

Folders 10_28 – 10_30

Original envelopes: Bob Plunkett, photographer.

Envelopes for some negatives in this range: (06_1619) – (06_2438).

Box 96

Original envelopes: Folders 10_31 - 10_32

Folders 10_31 – 10_32

Original envelopes: Miscellaneous film negatives.

Envelopes for some negatives in this range: (06_2443) – (06_2724).

Folder 10_33

Original storage box: "Stereographic Library" box by Keystone View Co. Late 19th century.

Box has "Keystone View Co." printed on spine. (This box held stereographs (1930s) by Philip Brigandi when received.)

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Collection Contents

Series 01. Photographic prints

Los Angeles

Los Angeles County: Cities and communities

Other Southern California

Central and Northern California

California Missions

Other United States

Foreign

Portraits. Arranged by photographer; most sitters unidentified.

Portraits. Arranged by sitter

Sports

Aviation

Maritime

Trains

Miscellaneous

Series 02. Photograph Albums

Robert Hutton photograph albums (Vol. 1 and Vol. 2)

Theresa Sletton Topanga Canyon album.

Apple Valley Ranchos album.

Travel album of San Diego and vicinity.

Photograph album of California and travels in the West

World War I photograph album: "Photographic History of the A.E.F. in France, 1917-1919."

World War I photographic postcards

Series 03. Stereographs.

Stereographs by identified photographers

Stereographs by unidentified photographers

Series 04. Panoramas

Los Angeles County

Other Southern California

Central and Northern California

Other

Series 05. Glass negatives

Artesia, Ca. - First National Bank building

Santa Monica and Venice

Other California

Miscellaneous

Glass negatives by George Haley, "Los Angeles Evening Herald" newspaper photographer, ca. 1922-1932

Series 06. Film negatives

George W. Hazard negatives of Los Angeles and vicinity.

Powell Press Service negatives of Santa Monica and vicinity.

George Haley film negatives.

Bob Plunkett film negatives.

Other film negatives

Series 07. Ephemera and publications

Series 08. Copy prints

Series 09. Copy negatives

Series 10. Research files and original negative envelopes

Research files.

Original negative envelopes.