Horner Architectural Photography Collection
Horner Architectural Photography Collection
Special Collections DepartmentRobert E. Kennedy Library
1 Grand Avenue
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
- Special Collections Department
- Robert E. Kennedy Library
- 1 Grand Avenue
- California Polytechnic State University
- San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
- Phone: 805/756—2305
- Fax: 805/756—5770
- Email: archives@calpoly.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/specialcollections/
- Processed by:
- Denise Fourie
- Date Completed:
- 2008
- Encoded by:
- Byte Managers and Marisa L. Ramirez, 2009
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Container List
Series 1. Photographs, circa 1920s
Scope and Content Note
A. California Adobes
Scope and Content Note
Brea: 2-story house w/enclosed porch
Buellton: interior view, sitting room
Buellton: chairs on porch
Buellton: porch w/lattice structure
Buellton: view of porch from yard
Camulos: window w/open shutter [Rancho Camulos, Piru, CA]
Camulos: water fountain [Rancho Camulos, Piru, CA]
Carmel Valley: abandoned house [Boronda Adobe, Boronda Road]
Near Corona: 1-story ranch house
Near Corona: 2-story house w/picket fence
Near Corona: interior stairs w/hay
Near Corona: exterior door w/lattice overhang
Near Corona: dilapidated porch, overhang
Near Del Rey: dilapidated building w/cupola
Near Escondido: fireplace
Jolon: door w/transom window detail
Jolon: corner view, 2-story building, cars
Near Lompoc: porch steps
Long Beach: yard view, 2-story house w/balcony
Long Beach: walkway to 2-story house
Los Alamos: porch view
Los Alamos: doorway detail
Los Angeles: house w/caving roof
Los Angeles: steps to porch and door, rock wall
Los Angeles: porch view, 2-story house
Los Angeles: side view, 1-story house
Montecito: 2-story house w/eucalyptus trees [Ortega House]
Monterey: doorway detail, address #526, street unknown
Monterey: corner house view w/stone steps and wall [502 Pierce St.]
Monterey: cottage elevation [General Sherman Headquarters, Calle Principal]
Monterey: old doorway detail [General Sherman Headquarters, Calle Principal]
Monterey: 2-story house, front porch [Larkin House, 510 Calle Principal]
Monterey: corner view, 2-story house, balcony [Larkin House, 510 Calle Principal]
Monterey: 2-story building, Olivier St. [Casa del Oro/Boston Store, 210 Olivier St.]
Monterey: double doorway [Old Whaling Station, 391 Decatur St.]
Monterey: house elevation w/full length balcony [Old Whaling Station, 391 Decatur St.]
Monterey: front doors, 2-story house w/balcony [Casa Amesti, 516 Polk St.]
Monterey: doors to side yard [Casa Amesti, 516 Polk St.]
Monterey: adobe wall connecting doorway and gate [Cooper-Molera Adobe, 510 Munras St.]
Monterey: elevation from street w/balcony [Cooper-Molera Adobe, 510 Munras St.]
Monterey: doorway detail, #508 [Cooper-Molera Adobe, 508 Munras St.]
Monterey: dilapidated house [Toy Lee Laundry]
Monterey: picket fence with house, palm tree [Stokes Adobe, Harnell St.]
Monterey: corner view, adobe side elevation and gated porch [Casa Abrego, 592 Abrego St.]
Monterey: corner view, 2-story building [Pacific House]
Monterey: two-story house, tile roof, picket fence
Monterey: abandoned adobe, door, stoop
Monterey: clapboard siding detail, geraniums
Near Monterey: interior window elevation
Near Oceanside: abandoned 1-story adobe
Near Oceanside: interior courtyard
Pasadena: Spanish style house, garden
Pico: door and window w/shutters
Near Pismo: dilapidated adobe w/stairs [Branch or Price adobe?]
Near Pomona: abandoned house
Riverside: L-shaped house
Near San Bernardino: doorway elevation w/carriage
San Diego: exterior elevation [Estudillo House, Old Town San Diego]
San Fernando Valley: 2-story adobe, remains, front view
San Fernando Valley: 2-story adobe, remains, rear view
San Fernando Valley: one room adobe
San Fernando Valley: 1-story adobe, porch view, colonnades
San Jose: porch
San Jose: adobe house on corner w/windmill
San Juan: rear view, 2-story adobe w/balcony [Castro-Breen Adobe, San Juan Bautista]
San Juan: front view, 2-story adobe w/balcony [Castro-Breen Adobe, San Juan Bautista]
San Marino: Spanish style building [El Molino Viejo]
San Miguel: 2-story adobe, "Historic La Casa de [sic] El Senior [sic] Rios" [Rios-Caledonia Adobe]
Santa Barbara: entry arch [El Cuartel, 122 E. Canon Perdido St.]
Santa Barbara: front door, porch
Santa Barbara: door, 3 windows along porch
Santa Maria: doorway with overhang [Dana Adobe, Nipomo, CA]
Near Santa Maria: L-shaped house, overgrown plants [Dana Adobe, Nipomo, CA]
Near Santa Maria: roof connection detail [Dana Adobe, Nipomo, CA]
Near Santa Maria: L-shaped house, garden gate [Dana Adobe, Nipomo, CA]
Near Santa Maria: rear house elevation, door w/overhang) [Dana Adobe, Nipomo, CA]
Near Santa Maria: interior fireplace detail [Dana Adobe, Nipomo, CA]
Near Santa Maria: house w/picket fence [part of Dana Rancho, Nipomo, CA ?]
Sonoma: 2-story house, picket fence [Ray House, aka Adler Adobe]
Sonoma: large 2-story adobe w/balcony [Blue Wing Inn]
Sonoma: 2-story adobe w/bars on windows [El Dorado Hotel]
B. England
Scope and Content Note
Great Dixter Manor [East Sussex]
Great Dixter Manor [East Sussex]
On the Thames- location unknown
Canterbury [Kent]
Rampisham [Dorset]
Untitled - exterior covered benches, shelter; location unknown
Untitled - half-timbered house, front view; location unknown
Devon [Devonshire]
Bourton-on-the-Water [Gloucestershire]
Herefordshire [Herefordshire]
Old Moreton [Cheshire]
Ipswich [Suffolk]
Untitled - half-timbered house, interior courtyard; location unknown
Ely [Cambridgeshire]
Surrey [Surrey]
Lynmouth [Devon]
Untitled - village corner, picket fence; location unknown
Untitled - decorative detail, circular bay window; location unknown
West Stow [West Suffolk]
Untitled - brick building with pond; location unknown
Untitled - decorative detail, half-timbered windows; location unknown
Untitled - brick and timber corner house; location unknown
Thurston Hall [Suffolk]
Lavenham [Suffolk]
Tewkesbury [Gloucestershire]
Tunbridge [Kent]
Untitled - decorative detail, window and floral relief pattern; location unknown
Yeovil [Somerset]
Buckland - location unknown
Chiddingstone [Kent]
Ipswich [Suffolk]
Near Broadway [Worcestershire]
Untitled - 3-story building, Fun Fair Carnival sign in window; location unknown
Untitled - country lane, house w/shingle siding; location unknown
Near Oxford [Oxfordshire]
Dunster [Somerset]
Near Sutton [Surrey]
Near Bath [Somerset]
Near Bath [Somerset]
Untitled - 3-story building, ivy-covered wall; location unknown
Rye [East Sussex]
Oxford [Oxfordshire]
Northleach [Gloucestershire]
Little Wolfeton [Dorset]
Glastonbury [Somerset]
Oxford [Oxfordshire]
Ipswich [Suffolk]
York [North Yorkshire]
Sevenoaks [Kent]
Thornbury [Gloucestershire]
Brinsap - location unknown
Lavenham [Suffolk]
Maidstone [Kent]
Kent [Kent]
Hurstmonceaux [Sussex]
Untitled - elevation showing window detail; location unknown
Untitled - decorative details, door, boot cleaner; location unknown
Harlech Castle, Wales
Untitled - decorative details, arched double doors; location unknown
Kirtling Hall [Cambridgeshire]
Northium [Sussex]
Abbots Salford [Warwickshire]
Broadway [Worcestershire]
Broadway [Worcestershire]
Upper Slaughter [Gloucestershire]
York [North Yorkshire]
Ely [Cambridgeshire]
Untitled - ached doorway with metal hinges
Untitled - chimney detail, rear elevation
Rye [East Sussex]
Rye [East Sussex]
York [North Yorkshire]
Untitled - decorative detail, drawer pull
Near Bath [Somerset]
Chiddingstone [Kent]
Surrey [Surrey]
Canterbury [Kent]
Untitled - door detail, location unknown
Wells [Somerset]
Surrey [Surrey]
Devonshire [Devon]
Near Bisham [Berkshire]
Rye [East Sussex]
Untitled - decorative detail, drawer pull, location unknown
Suffolk [Suffolk]
Untitled - wooden doorway detail, location unknown
Oxford [Oxfordshire]
NorthLeach [Gloucestershire]
Elmley Castle [Worcestershire]
Farm near York [North Yorkshire]
Ferme Cobbas - location unknown
Near Rye [East Sussex]
Untitled - 3 buildings along village sidewalk, small boy; location unknown
Suffolk [Suffolk]
Surrey [Surrey]
Untitled — thatched roof cottage; location unknown
Ewhurst [Surrey]
South Wraxall Manor [Wiltshire]
Sherborne - location unknown
Lavenham [Suffolk]
Warwick [Warwickshire]
Chiddingstone [Kent]
Broadway [Worcestershire]
Warwick [Warwickshire]
Canterbury [Kent]
Surrey [Surrey]
Rye [East Sussex]
Buckland - location unknown
Near Broadway [Worcestershire]
Chantmarle Manor [Dorset]
Lavenham [Suffolk]
Montacute Priory [Somerset]
Rye [East Sussex]
Compton Wynyates [Warwickshire]
Norfolk [Norfolk]
Penshurst [Kent]
Canterbury [Kent]
Somersetshire [Somerset]
Upper Swell [Gloucestershire]
Near Broadway [Worcestershire]
Stanton - location unknown
Corsham [Wiltshire]
Wolfeton House [Dorset]
Near Rye [East Sussex]
Sandford Orcas [Dorset]
Near Rye [East Sussex]
Near Reigate [Surrey]
Hereford [Herefordshire]
Surrey [Surrey]
Rye [East Sussex]
No title- door detail; location unknown
Near Stratford on Avon [Warwickshire]
Broadway [Worcestershire]
Somersetshire [Somerset]
Norfolk [Norfolk]
Broadway [Worcestershire]
Surrey [Surrey]
No title - gate; location unknown
Stratford-on-Avon [Warwickshire]
Yeovil [Somerset]
Oxford [Oxfordshire]
Montacute Priory [Somerset]
Rye [East Sussex]
No title - masonry and timber house; location unknown
Oxford [Oxfordshire]
Bisham Abbey [Berkshire]
Stanton - location unknown
Farm near Bourton-on-the-Water [Gloucestershire]
Herefordshire [Herefordshire]
Thurston Hall [Suffolk]
Surrey [Surrey]
York [North Yorkshire]
No title - full view, masonry and timber house; location unknown
Broadway [Worcestershire]
Broadway [Worcestershire]
Lavenham [Suffolk]
Laycock [West Yorkshire]
Colchester [Essex]
Surrey [Surrey]
Waltham [Leicestershire]
C. France
Scope and Content Note
France - stone houses along bridge over canal
France - stone turret, pine trees
France - double doorway entrance to two-story stone building, inset figures in alcoves
France - doorway with bas relief in arch; poster on building reads: Grande Usine
Tours - stone buildings, geese in courtyard
Luynes - village buildings, woman with basket
Southern France - ivy-covered brick façade, doorway
Southern France - staired-walkway leading to tower
Southern France - sunny staircase to brick building; dog, baby on steps
Untitled - quay along Nice harbor with boats
Southern France - wooden cart behind iron gates
Southern France - women, children on street beneath tower building
Southern France - village lane, cart with firewood
Southern France - women, children in alley with wooden crates
Southern France - roofline, walled city
Southern France - stone house w/gate opening into courtyard, dogs
Southern France - tile-roofed house on steep dirt lane
Southern France - multi-story house w/corn husks drying on wall
Southern France - courtyard w/grapevine, staircase
Southern France - façade w/iron balconies, "American and English"
Southern France - steep, narrow alley w/wooden window shutters
Southern France - exterior curved stucco staircase to upper story
Southern France - women in front of house, laundry on balcony
Southern France - alley in shadow, w/dogs, toddler
Southern France - water pump
Southern France - girls w/hats in house driveway
Southern France - rear view buildings, church bell tower
Southern France - wooden gate, stone buildings
Southern France - three-story stucco/rock building
D. Italy
Scope and Content Note
Italy - men in arched alley
Italy - multi-story, tile-roofed house on hillside
Italy - brick and stone two-story building
Italy - stone banister, exterior steps
Italy - multi-story building with wrought iron balconies
Italy - stone steps, entrance to garden
Italy - corner view, multi-story building with café, Pensione Fedele
Italy - multi-story building, Rifornimento; church bell tower in background
Italy - girl in arched, outdoor cabana
Italy - decorative detail, metal door pull
Italy - exterior stair case to multi-story building, with laundry drying
Italy - cobblestone street leading to church with cupola
Italy - vine-covered 2nd story terrace
Italy - vine-covered 2nd story terrace, close view
Untitled - arched stone bridge over river with village
Rome - decorative detail, stone Ionic capital
Rome - stone steps, urn in outdoor garden
Florence - iron-gated entrance to courtyard
Florence - entrance to arched alley, man on bike
Florence - decorative detail, iron grillwork on windows
Florence - street lamp, alley corner
Florence - arched courtyard with potted plants
Florence - decorative detail, two metal doors
Florence - decorative detail, building façade with window grillwork, heraldic emblem
Florence - street scene with pedestrians
Florence - decorative detail, iron grillwork on window, pediment
Florence - fountain in niche
Florence - staircase with font in foreground
Florence - courtyard garden with Italian cypresses
Florence - decorative detail, doorway with quoins
Florence - corner building view, women pedestrians with dog
E. Switzerland
Scope and Content Note
Swiss - rear view church spire; view down street past Kaffee-Halle Pension
Geneva - mural over doorway to Harbt Ernst Butzberger
Swiss - arched entrances to building: Caisse d' epargne
Swiss - view of stenciled roof eaves; sign on balcony reads Elektrizitatswerk- Murten-Lampen-Verkauf
Swiss - front view down alley to Kaffee-Halle Pension
Swiss - front view of clock tower in plaza