Physical Description: 100 photographs
Related Material
There are some additional images of unidentified residences and views in Series III.
Scope and Content Note
Includes photographs depicting residences, commercial and municipal buildings, streets, and
gardens, landscaping and agriculture in and around South Pasadena, chiefly in the 1920s.
Views of the exteriors of residences include the Adobe Flores, with several people posing near the entrance, one of whom is
an African American woman (Items 1-2); the home of Mrs.
G. W. Childs on Buena Vista Street (Item 3); the building of hand weaver LuVerne S. Reid
(Item 5); and Casa de Helecho (Items 6-7), as well as some interior views of an unidentified
home (Items 21). There are also street views, often showing road work, including an image of
construction on Pacific Electric train tracks on Huntington Drive (Item 25).
Views of the exteriors of commercial and civic buildings in South Pasadena include: the
Graham and Mohr Opera House (with the Minier Gas Heater Co. storefront) at 913-917 El Centro
Street (Items 50-51); the W.S. Adamson Co. real estate office at 1019 El Centro Street (Item
51); the Home Bank building (Item 52); the Hotel Capitola (Item 53); crowds at the Rialto
Theatre (Items 54-55); the Fair Oaks Public Market and Martin & Lane car dealership
(Item 56); the Willard Garage, advertising Hupmobile service (Item 57); the South Pasadena
Garage and Daily Record building (Items 58-59); the Harry W. Weber radio store at 1009 1/2
Fair Oaks Avenue (Item 60); the Zane Drug Company and South Pasadena Public Market
storefronts in the A.C. Ong building at Fair Oaks Avenue and Mission Street (Item 61); the
Live Hardware Co. storefront in the A.R. Graham Building on Mission Street (Item 62 and Item
82); the storefront of E.A. Merritt, Jeweler, at 1524 Mission Street (Item 63); the interior
of a tailor shop (Item 64); the Mission Hotel building under construction (Item 65);
interior and exterior views of a restaurant (Items 66-67); Turner, Stevens & Berry
undertakers building (Item 68) and funeral home (Items 69-70); the South Pasadena Library,
including a photograph of a drawing of the floorplan for an addition (Items 84-86); the
Memorial Baptist Church at El Centro and Mound Street (Items 94); and the South Pasadena City
High School (Items 95-96). In addition there are photographs featuring a salt works (Items 75-76) and a few views of storefronts
in Pasadena,
including: the James H. Kindel car dealership at 1095 Colorado Street (Items 77-78); Bagnard
Hardware at 152 East Colorado Street (Item 79); and the Rust Furniture Co. (Items
80-81).
Notably, several photographs show crowds at retail establishments holding clearance or
going-out-of-business sales, including hardware stores and the Rust Furniture Company (Items
62 and 79-82). Other single images include a sign for the
Oneonta Hills subdivision (Item 24); a desert home (Item 48); two men posing in front of a
produce truck with "N. Nishimoto" on the door (Item 71); a California Transfer and Storage
truck (Item 72); a dairy and the Arroyo Verde Springs in the Arroyo Seco (Items 73 and 74); and laborers
with a wagon loaded with orange crates (Item 83). There are also a few views of orchards,
fields, and the seacoast in unidentified locations. There are two copy images of Moxhull Hall, the residence of Henry Fisher,
in Warwickshire, England (Items 182-183).
Item 39 does not exist; the number was unintentionally skipped.
