Box 1, Item 1
[View of Los Angeles]
1867
Physical Description: [Copy print. 3-3/4 x 17-1/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photographer S.A. Rendall stands at left side of image.]
Box 1, Item 2
Los Angeles in 1869. Main portion of Los Angeles taken from the site where
the Court House now stands
1905
Physical Description: [10 x 36 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photomechanical copy print by George W. Hazard in 1905.]
Box 1, Item 3
[View across downtown Los Angeles rooftops towards mountains]
undated
Physical Description: [9-1/2 x 27-3/4
inches.]
Box 1, Item 4
Los Angeles from corner of Third and Olive Streets (Bunker
Hill)
undated
Physical Description: [9-1/4 x 35-1/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by A.C. Pillsbury; photomechanical print by Panorama Publishing
Company.]
Box 1, Item 5
[Hotel Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills]
1912
Physical Description: [10 x 26-1/2
inches.]
Box 3, Item 6
Birdseye view of Universal City
November 30, 1913
Physical Description: [Copy print. 12-3/4 x 39
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Bailey and Ramsey.]
Box 3, Item 7
[Belvedere Gardens, East Los Angeles]
ca. 1920s
Physical Description: [9-1/4 x 64-1/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Pettit's Studio. View of Janss Subdivision.]
Box 3, Item 8
[View of Southern Pacific Railroad's Taylor Yard, Elysian Park in
background, Los Angeles]
undated
Physical Description: [9-1/4 x 54 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Pettit's Studio.]
Box 3, Item 9
[View of Southern Pacific Railroad's Taylor Yard, Mount Washington in
background, Los Angeles]
undated
Physical Description: [9-1/4 x 57-1/2
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Pettit's Studio.]
Box 8, Item 10
The Raymond [Hotel], East Pasadena, California
ca. 1889
Physical Description: [1 print: 17 x 54-3/4 inches; 3
prints: 6-1/2 x 8-3/4 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by William Henry Jackson. Panoramic view of the Raymond Hotel and
grounds looking towards San Gabriel Mountains. Title is written in calligraphic hand
at the base of the image and surrounded by the statement "In the beautiful San
Gabriel Valley - Eight Miles from Los Angeles." Three 6 x 8 inch prints are inserted
at the bottom of the image and are entitled: "San Gabriel Mission," "Roses at the
Raymond," and "Rose cottage."]
A copy print of the panorama is available for study.
Box 3, Item 11
Annandale Country Club
December 25, 1909
Physical Description: [9-1/4 x 53-3/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Charles Z. Bailey. Four individual photographs joined
together.]
Box 1, Item 12
[View of Mount Lowe]
ca. 1900
Physical Description: [10 x 41-3/4
inches.]
Box 1, Item 13
[View of Mount Lowe, with trail]
ca. 1900
Physical Description: [10 x 42-3/4
inches.]
Box 1, Item 14
[View of Mount Lowe Railroad tracks, showing Granite Gate and railroad
car]
ca. 1900
Physical Description: [7-1/2 x 37 inches.]
Box 1, Item 15
[View of Ye Alpine Tavern, Mount Lowe]
ca. 1900
Physical Description: [10 x 43-1/4
inches.]
Box 1, Item 16
[View of Mount Lowe Tavern]
ca. 1920s
Physical Description: [10 x 35-3/4
inches.]
Box 1, Item 17
[Road above Alpine Tavern, Mount Lowe]
ca. 1900
Physical Description: [10 x 42-3/4
inches.]
Box 2, Item 108
[View of Ascot Park grandstand, Gardena, California]
1907
Physical Description: [10 x 32-1/2 inches]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by California Panorama Company.]
Box 2, Item 109
[View of Ascot Park racetrack, Gardena, California]
1908
Physical Description: [7-3/4 x 35 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by California Panorama Company.]
Box 3, Item 122
Los Angeles
1928
Physical Description: 50 ¼ x 10 in.
Scope and Contents
[Title and date in pencil on verso]. No photographer.
View looking across downtown Los Angeles from Bunker Hill; Grand Avenue in the
left foreground and Hotel Fleur-de-Lis. Provenance unknown.
Box 3, Item 123
North from Hollywood Club
July 1929.
Physical Description: 10 x 52 ¼ in.
Scope and Contents
C. C. Pierce & Co.
Provenance unknown.
Box 3, Item 125
[View of downtown Los Angeles].
approximately 1920.
Physical Description: 24 x 122
cm.
Scope and Contents
Southwestern University Building at left foreground; Western Pacific
Building at right foreground
Box 3, Item 128
Los Angeles.
approximately 1975.
Physical Description: 25.5 x 125.5
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Cibachrome print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by Goldbeck Panorama. View looking north over downtown Los
Angeles.
Box 9, Item 147
Beneath the Sixth Street Bridge I, Arts District, L.A. River
2014
Physical Description: 4 ambrotype plates in a single
frame; plates each 7 3/8 x 9 3/16 inches, black frame 14 x 45 in. Each plate
engraved right edge, near bottom corner of plate: "MK" and date in roman numerals,
"XIV" (i.e. 2014).
Scope and Contents
Photograph by Michael Kolster.
Four-part panoramic view of the concrete riverbed of the Los Angeles River below
the Sixth Street bridge with the photographer's vehicle and camera equipment visible
in the foreground. Transmission lines and railroad boxcars are visible in the
background. See Michael Kolster,
L.A. River (Staunton, VA: George F.
Thompson Publishing, 2019), plate 56.
Conditions Governing Access
Access to this item is restricted due to its fragility. Permission to view it must
be granted by the Curator of Photography.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright retained by Michael Kolster.
Box 1, Item 18
San Francisco waterfront prior to April 1851
undated
Physical Description: [Copy print. 9-1/2 x 32
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Building key on verso.]
Box 1, Item 19
[View of San Francisco after the fire]
1906
Physical Description: [7-3/4 x 28-1/2
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Three individual photographs joined together.]
Box 1, Item 20
[View of San Francisco after the fire]
1906
Physical Description: [7-3/4 x 38 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Four individual photographs joined together.]
Box 1, Item 21
[View of San Francisco after the fire]
1906
Physical Description: [7-3/4 x 28-1/2
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Three individual photographs joined together.]
Box 1, Item 22
[View of San Francisco after the fire]
1906
Physical Description: [9 x 37 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Four individual photographs joined together.]
Box 7, Item 23
Unburned district of San Francisco looking northeast from Lawrence Captive
Airship, 2200 feet elevation
1906
Physical Description: [15-3/4 x 44
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by George R. Lawrence Company.]
Box 7, Item 24
Birdseye view of ruins of San Francisco from Captive Airship 600 feet above
Folsom between Fifth and Sixth Streets
1906
Physical Description: [17-3/4 x 45-1/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by George R. Lawrence Company.]
Box 7, Item 25
Part of unburned district San Francisco 1500 feet above Vallejo and
Leavenworth Streets looking west
April 30, 1906
Physical Description: [17-3/4 x 49-1/2
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by George R. Lawrence Company, S.F. #5.]
Box 7, Item 26
Photograph of San Francisco in ruins from Lawrence Captive Airship 2000
feet above San Francisco Bay overlooking water front. Sunset over Golden
Gate
May 28, 1906
Physical Description: [18-1/4 x 48-3/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by George R. Lawrence Company.]
Box 7, Item 26 var.
Photograph of San Francisco in ruins from Lawrence Captive Airship 2000
feet above San Francisco Bay overlooking water front. Sunset over Golden
Gate
May 28, 1906
Physical Description: [18 x 34 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by George R. Lawrence Company.]
Box 7, Item 27
Ruins of San Francisco, Nob Hill in foreground, from Lawrence Captive
Airship 1500 feet elevation
May 29, 1906
Physical Description: [18 x 34 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by George R. Lawrence Company.]
Box 7, Item 27 var.
Ruins of San Francisco, Nob Hill in foreground, from Lawrence Captive
Airship 1500 feet elevation
May 29, 1906
Physical Description: [16-1/2 x 44-3/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by George R. Lawrence Company.]
Box 7, Item 28
San Francisco two years after from Lawrence Captive Air Ship 2000 feet over
San Francisco Bay
1908
Physical Description: [20 x 50 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by George R. Lawrence Company.]
Box 7, Item 28 var.
San Francisco two years after from Lawrence Captive Air Ship 2000 feet over
San Francisco Bay
1908
Physical Description: [20 x 50 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by George R. Lawrence Company.]
Box 7, Item 29
San Francisco two years after from Lawrence Captive Air Ship 800 feet above
4th and Mission Streets
1908
Physical Description: [20 x 50-1/2
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by George R. Lawrence Company.]
Box 7, Item 30
San Francisco two years after. Photograph from Lawrence Captive Airship
1000 feet above California and Powell Streets
May 9, 1908
Physical Description: [20 x 36 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by George R. Lawrence Company. "Supplement to Sunset Magazine."]
Box 3, Item 31
Panama Pacific International Exposition
1915
Physical Description: [8 x 47-3./4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by C.R. Nock, number 1000.]
Box 3, Item 121
San Francisco from Rincon Hill
1851; copy made 1910.
Physical Description: [Eleven photographs, each 7 x 5
1/2 inches. Frame measures 80 x 9 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Copy photo by Martin Behrman.]
[Writing on photo: "San Francisco from Rincon hill. Copyr by Martin Behrman,
1910."]
A 1910 copy of an 1851 panoramic view of San Francisco, California. The view spans
from approximately Telegraph Hill to Rincon Hill, with the center of the panorama
looking east towards San Francisco Bay, with certain buildings identified on the
image including the Pacific Iron Foundry, the Vulcan Foundry, Sutter House, St.
Mary's Hospital, and "portable houses," as well as some streets and surrounding
hills.
Box 3, Item 127
San Francisco
1975.
Physical Description: 25.5 x 129
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Cibachrome print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by Goldbeck Photo Co.
California (miscellaneous)
Box 3, Item 32
[View of Big Bear Lake]
undated
Physical Description: [12 x 69 inches.]
Box 1, Item 33
[View of Tehachapi Loop]
undated
Physical Description: [9-1/4 x 31-1/4
inches.]
Box 1, Item 34
[View of Los Gatos, California]
undated
Physical Description: [7-1/2 x 27-1/4
inches.]
Box 1, Item 35
Yosemite Falls from Oak Tree Point
1906
Physical Description: [26-1/2 x 9 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Pillsbury Picture Company, number 1023.]
Box 2, Item 106
Entering the Double-Bow Knot, Halfway to the summit of Mt. Tamalpais,
California. Above the Golden Gate on the "Crookedest Railroad in the
World,"
undated
Physical Description: [7 x 28-1/4 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[View of Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway cars with passengers posed
in front.]
Box 3, Item 114
[View of Yosemite from the valley floor
ca. 2000.]
Physical Description: [9 x 55 inches.]
Scope and Contents
Ron Klein, photographer.
Box 3, Item 116
Avenue District, Ventura, Calif.
February 8, 1927.
Physical Description: [10 x 58 inches.]
Scope and Contents
B. Isensee, Photo. [View from hills looking down across residential
developments and groves].
Box 3, Item 117
Avenue Oil Field, Ventura, California - Looking north from Shell gasoline
plant.
March 15, 1927.
Physical Description: [10 x 51 3/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
B. Isensee, Photo No. 8
Box 3, Item 118
Unidentified agricultural scene of orchards, homes, and fields with hills
in the distance, possibly in Fresno County, California
undated
Physical Description: [8 x 47 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Laval and Ninnis, Fresno.]
Box 3, Item 126
New York.
1979.
Physical Description: 25 x 138.5
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Cibachrome print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by Goldbeck Photo Co. View toward Manhattan with World Trade Center
towers at center of picture.
Box 3, Item 144
Panorama View of Niagara Falls.
1911.
Physical Description: 14 x 80
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Colored
photomechanical postcard ;
Scope and Contents
Photo by W.H. Brandel, Buffalo, NY; David Ellis, publisher.
Box 4, Item 145
[View of town and fields in upstate New York.]
Undated.
Physical Description: 32 x 150.5
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
with pen & ink markings and wash ;
Box 5, Item 146
Beal's Photographic View of New York in 1876 from the Brooklyn
Bridge.
Physical Description: Photograph: 37 x
223 cm. Mount: approx. 45 x 226 cm.
Scope and Contents
Five contiguous albumen views (approx. 37 x 45 cm. ea) sequenced together
to form a panoramic view of Manhattan as seen from Brooklyn. The mount contains
printed identifications of landmarks and buildings in Manhattan and, in the
distance, New Jersey.
Folder Oversize 1, Item 36
Furnace Creek, Death Valley, California
1992
Physical Description: [Chromogenic print; 12 x 36
inches.]
Conditions Governing Access
photPAN 36-38 have been placed in cold storage for preservation. Arrangements for
viewing these items must be made in advance with the Curator of Photographs.
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Karen Halverson.]
Folder Oversize 1, Item 37
Hoover Dam, Arizona/Nevada Border
1995
Physical Description: [Chromogenic print; 18 x 54
inches.]
Conditions Governing Access
photPAN 36-38 have been placed in cold storage for preservation. Arrangements for
viewing these items must be made in advance with the Curator of Photographs.
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Karen Halverson. From the Colorado River series.]
Folder Oversize 1, Item 38
Thermopolis, Wyoming
1992
Physical Description: [Chromogenic print; 18 x 54
inches.]
Conditions Governing Access
photPAN 36-38 have been placed in cold storage for preservation. Arrangements for
viewing these items must be made in advance with the Curator of Photographs.
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Karen Halverson.]
Box 3, Item 39
Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, Texas
undated
Physical Description: [10 x 47-3/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Bryant Studio. Building identifications on verso; military units
identified on recto.]
Box 1, Item 40
[View of unidentified valley with farms]
undated
Physical Description: [7-1/4 x 17-1/2
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Two photographs joined together.]
Box 1, Item 41
[View of unidentified park]
undated
Physical Description: [9-1/4 x 38 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Harris Photo Company.]
Box 1, Item 42
[View of unidentified harbor]
undated
Physical Description: [5 x 37-1/4 inches.]
Box 3, Item 136
[Exterior view of Versailles and grounds].
Undated; printed later.
Physical Description: 23 x 143
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by E.O. Goldbeck.
Box 3, Item 43
Venice-Del Rey Oil Field
July 9, 1930
Physical Description: [9 x 48-3/4 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by C.C. Pierce, number 4. Accompanied by undated clipping.]
Box 3, Item 44
Newport News Shipbuilding and D.D. [Dry Dock] Co.
August 1920
Physical Description: [8 x 47-1/4 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Griffith Phot.]
Box 1, Item 45
[View of unidentified shipyard]
undated
Physical Description: [8 x 30 inches.]
Box 1, Item 46
[View of unidentified rail yard]
undated
Physical Description: [5-1/4 x 19-3/4
inches.]
Box 3, Item 124
Pepsi Cola Bottling Co., The Drink that Speaks for Itself, E. 62nd ST., Los
Angeles, Calif.
undated
Physical Description: 20.3 cm x 105
cm.
Scope and Contents
Photo by W. W. Beaudry.
Box 10, Item 47
Ouray, Colorado
ca. 1885
Physical Description: [16 x 73-1/2
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by William Henry Jackson.]
Box 3, Item 48
[View of unidentified mining town]
1909
Physical Description: [10 x 50-1/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by West Coast Art Company.]
Box 3, Item 49
Virginia City, Nevada
1914
Physical Description: [10 x 49-1/4
inches.]
Box 3, Item 50
Bisbee, Arizona
1916
Physical Description: [8 x 50 inches.]
Box 1, Item 51
[View of unidentified mining town]
undated
Physical Description: [6-1/4 x 33 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Four photographs joined together.]
Box 1, Item 52
[View of Culebra Cut, Panama Canal]
1913
Physical Description: [6-1/2 x 36-1/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Gordon Panoramic Photo Company.]
Box 1, Item 53
[View of Culebra Cut, Panama Canal]
1913
Physical Description: [6-1/2 x 36-3/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Gordon Panoramic Photo Company.]
Box 1, Item 54
Spillway, Gatun Dam [Panama Canal]
1913
Physical Description: [6-1/2 x 36-1/2
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Gordon Panoramic Photo Company.]
Box 1, Item 55
Showing enormous slide in Culebra Cut, Panama Canal, Vista de derrumbe en
el corte de Culebra
1913
Physical Description: [9 x 33 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by I.L. Maduro.]
Box 1, Item 55 var.
[View of Culebra Cut, Panama Canal]
1913
Physical Description: [8 x 36 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by I.L. Maduro.]
Box 1, Item 56
Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal, Ancon Hill in the distance
1913
Physical Description: [9 x 36 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by I.L. Maduro.]
Scope and Contents
[Copy negative on file.]
Box 1, Item 57
Ancon Hospital with Ancon Hill in the Background, Panama
1913
Physical Description: [9 x 36 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by I.L. Maduro.]
Box 1, Item 58
[View of Culebra Cut, Panama Canal]
1913
Physical Description: [8 x 35-3/4 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Copy negative on file.]
Box 1, Item 59
[View of Pedro Miguel Locks construction, Panama Canal]
1913
Physical Description: [8 x 35-3/4 inches.]
Box 2, Item 60
Norris Dam looking south. Clinch River at Cove Creek, Tennessee
February 16, 1934
Physical Description: [10 x 38-1/2
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Bell Clements.]
Box 2, Item 60 var.
Norris Dam looking south. Clinch River at Cove Creek, Tennessee
February 16, 1934
Physical Description: [10 x 39-1/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Bell Clements.]
Box 2, Item 61
Norris Dam looking west. Clinch River at Cove Creek, Tennessee
February 16, 1934
Physical Description: [10 x 39 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Bell Clements.]
Box 2, Item 62
Norris Dam
June 20, 1934
Physical Description: [10 x 37 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Bell Clements, number 34.]
Box 2, Item 63
Norris Dam looking west
June 20, 1934
Physical Description: [10 x 36-3/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Bell Clements, number 31.]
Box 2, Item 64
Norris Dam under construction, Anderson County, Tennessee
November 5, 1934
Physical Description: [10 x 39 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Bell Clements, number 71. Building and feature identifications
inscribed by photographer.]
Box 2, Item 65
Norris Dam at night under construction
1934
Physical Description: [7 x 11 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Bell Clements, number 128-F.]
Box 2, Item 66
Norris Dam under construction (looking south)
March 18, 1935
Physical Description: [10 x 36-1/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Bell Clements, number 104.]
Group Portraits and Events
Box 2, Item 67
Pasadena [California] G.A.R. [Grand Army of the Republic]
undated
Physical Description: [8 x 25-1/4 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Thompson, number 1053.]
Box 3, Item 68
N.S.G.W. [Native Sons of the Golden West] Barbecue at Santa Anita,
California, "Lucky" Baldwin's Ranch
April 23, 1914
Physical Description: [8 x 58-3/4 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Charles Z. Bailey.]
Box 2, Item 69
[Group portrait commemorating placement of marker for first gold discovery
in California]
March 9, 1930
Physical Description: [8 x 36 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Hughes Photos. Inscribed on recto: "On March 9, 1930, Ramona
Parlor 109 of N.S.G.W. together with La Mesa Club and Kiwanis Club of Newhall and
Saugus, placed a temporary tablet over a mound of Boulders which mark the spot where
Gold was first discovered in California by Francisco Lopez on March 9th, 1842, in
Placeritos Canyon on the property now owned by Mr. F.E. Walker."]
Box 2, Item 70
Alaska Yukon Club Picnic at Sycamore Grove [Los Angeles]
June 22, 1930
Physical Description: [8 x 35-1/2 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Thompson, number 2115. Hand-colored. Two individuals identified:
"Christine Rolke and only son who was killed in the 2nd w.w."]
Box 3, Item 71
Drama League of America, Pasadena, California
1924
Physical Description: [8 x 46-1/2 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Photo News Service.]
Box 2, Item 72
Gamut Club Twenty-fifth Birthday Anniversary
April 3, 1929
Physical Description: [10 x 18-1/2
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Weaver, number 8051.]
Box 2, Item 73
[Gamut Club gathering, May 19-20]
1935
Physical Description: [9-3/4 x 19-3/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Weaver, number 2279.]
Box 2, Item 74
20th Anniversary Luncheon, Women's City Club. Los Angeles,
California
May 18, 1931
Physical Description: [10 x 20 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Weaver, number 9889.]
Box 2, Item 75
Biennial Convention of the Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity, Boston,
Massachusetts, August 19-23
1930
Physical Description: [8 x 30-1/2 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Fay Foto, Boston.]
Box 3, Item 119
7th Annual Rosicrucian Convention, July 1935, San Jose, Calif.
Physical Description: [8 x 43-3/4 inches.]
Scope and Contents
Steiner, photographer. [Group portrait].
Box 3, Item 137
Club Dinner tendered Gov. G.N. Gillet by Union League Club.
Sat., Nov. 13
[19]09.
Physical Description: 30 x 50
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by R.J. Waters & Co. Group portrait of men seated at long tables
in a banquet room.
Box 3, Item 138
Dinner, Commonwealth Club, Ladies Night, St. Francis.
Oct. 13
[19]09.
Physical Description: 30 x 50
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by R.J. Waters & Co. Group portrait of men and women seated at
long tables in the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco banquet room.
Box 3, Item 139
Annual Banquet, The New Yorkers, St. Francis Hotel.
Nov. 23
[19]09.
Physical Description: 29 x 49
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by R.J. Waters & Co. Group portrait of men seated at tables in
the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco banquet room.
Box 3, Item 140
Eleventh Annual Banquet, New Yorkers, St. Francis Hotel.
Nov. 26
[19]10.
Physical Description: 29 x 49
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by R.J. Waters & Co. Group portrait of men seated at tables in
the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco.
Box 3, Item 141
The Good Time Banquet, Downtown Men's Association, St. Francis
Hotel.
Mar. 3 [19]10.
Physical Description: 28.5 x 49
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by R.J. Waters & Co. Group portrait of men, including Chinese
men, seated at tables in the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, banquet room with a
large American flag and bunting in the background.
Box 2, Item 76
Fontana Land Company Picnic
undated
Physical Description: [4 x 35-1/4 inches.]
Box 2, Item 77
View of Hermosa Dairy Ranch and staff
June 1931
Physical Description: [10 x 35-3/4 inches]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by C.Z. Bailey and R.J. Gallagher. "B.G. #6."]
Box 2, Item 78
Pasadena Police [Pasadena, California]
May 30, 1931
Physical Description: [7-1/2 x 32 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Hiller.]
Box 2, Item 79
Pasadena Police [Pasadena, California]
1927
Physical Description: [10 x 34-1/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Hiller.]
Box 2, Item 80
[Pasadena, California, Police Department?]
1927
Physical Description: [8 x 23-3/4 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Hiller]
Box 3, Item 81
Employees of Universal Film Manufacturing Company at Universal City,
California
November 30, 1913
Physical Description: [13 x 37-3/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Bailey and Ramsey.]
Box 2, Item 82
Pacific Electric Railway Company. Los Angeles Freight Station Office
Personnel
October 10, 1947
Physical Description: [7-3/4 x 16 inches.]
Box 2, Item 83
Pacific Electric Railway Company. Los Angeles Freight Station Warehouse
Personnel
October 10, 1947
Physical Description: [7-1/2 x 19 inches.]
Box 3, Item 115
Third Annual Pacific Coast Pest Control Conference. For the Advancement of
Knowledge Among All Pest Control Operators of the Western United States. February
22, 23, 24, 1940. University of California.
February 22, 23, 24, 1940.
Physical Description: [8 x 30 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Group portrait in front of unidentified building.]
Box 3, Item 120
Los Angeles Fire Department Preparedness Parade, Los Angeles
June 14, 1916.
Physical Description: [8 x 43 1/2 inches.]
Scope and Contents
A detailed panoramic view of the commencement of the Los Angeles Fire
Department Preparedness Parade at the corner of Los Angeles and 11th Street as noted
in a street sign visible near the top left corner of the photograph. At the center
of the photograph is the Van Vleet Supply Station selling gas for 18 cents a gallon.
Several residences are clearly shown along with people sitting on the porches. A
number of automobiles, a horse drawn ice cream vendor wagon and the A and F Spring
Company are shown along Los Angeles Street. [Photo by M.P. Weaver and Lloyd Photo
Co., Los Angeles.]
Box 2, Item 84
Los Angeles High School Summer Class 1926. The Largest Class Ever Graduated
from any High School in the West--Shrine Auditorium
1926
Physical Description: [8 x 20 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Weaver.]
Box 2, Item 85
[Los Angeles High School students]
ca. 1898
Physical Description: [8-1/4 x 39 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Students dressed for performance or pageant.]
Box 2, Item 86
Lincoln Junior High School, Santa Monica, California
May 21, 1924
Physical Description: [8 x 36-1/2 inches.]
Box 2, Item 87
McKinley Grade School, Pasadena, [California]
June 10, 1924
Physical Description: [8 x 39 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by H.A. Varble, Eagle Rock. List of thirty identified students on
verso made September 1, 1935.]
Box 2, Item 88
McKinley Junior High School, Pasadena, [California]
January 29, 1927
Physical Description: [8 x 24-3/4 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by H.A. Varble, Eagle Rock. Student signatures on verso.]
Box 2, Item 89
Eagle Rock Central School, [Los Angeles]
undated
Physical Description: [8 x 40-3/4 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by H.A. Varble, Eagle Rock.]
Box 3, Item 143
Spring Class 1963, Balboa High School, San Francisco.
[1963?]
Physical Description: 20 x 77
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by Group portrait of Class of 1963 at Balboa High School with many
notes on the back to "Margie" from classmates.
Professional Organizations
Box 2, Item 90
California Special Train of delegates to Republican Convention,
Chicago
1912
Physical Description: [10 x 35-1/2
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Prince Photo. Banner in photo reads: "Let the People
Rule/California for Roosevelt by 76,000/1912." Hand written identifications on
recto.]
Box 2, Item 91
American Association of Traveling Passenger Agents Convention at Mount
Lowe
September 23, 1926
Physical Description: [8 x 28-1/2 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Inscribed on photograph: "Guests of the Pacific Electric Railway operating
1100 miles of standard rail lines in territory tributary to Los Angeles." Principal
officers of the Association and employees of Pacific Electric (including D.W.
Pontius) identified.]
Box 3, Item 92
Second Annual Meeting, Police Officers Association of Los Angeles
County
January 9, 1932
Physical Description: [8 x 42-1/2 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Weaver.]
Box 3, Item 93
Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting, National Association of Commercial
Organization Secretaries, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, October 21, 1941
1941
Physical Description: [10 x 49 inches.]
Box 2, Item 94
Twenty-first Meeting of the National Council of Congregational Churches of
the United States, Washington, D.C., October 20th-28th, 1925
1925
Physical Description: [8 x 39-1/2 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Rideout, Washington, D.C.]
Box 2, Item 95
Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, Mohonk Lake, Ulster
County, New York
1911
Physical Description: [8 x 40 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by L.M. Hermance. List of attendees affixed to verso.]
Box 3, Item 142
[Group portrait of the delegates of the 26th Convention, International
Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Cleveland, Ohio.]
[June, 1947].
Physical Description: 23 x 43
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by Miller Ertier Studios. Delegates are posing outside in front of a
banner on some steps. Title derived from the banner hanging in the background.
Box 2, Item 96
[Army Bivouac near San Diego]
undated
Physical Description: [8 x 34-1/2 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by O.A. Tunnell, San Diego.]
Box 2, Item 97
"Battery C" 144th Field Artillery
1919
Physical Description: [8 x 36-1/4 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Inscribed on photograph: "Capt. George C. Montgomery, commanding. Returned
from Service in France January 1919." Photo by J.D. Givens, San Francisco.]
Box 3, Item 98
U.S. Army and Red Cross Nurses on field duty at Base Hospital, Camp Bowie,
Texas
January 1918
Physical Description: [8 x 47-1/2 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Mayhart.]
Box 3, Item 113
52nd Balloon Co., Arcadia, California
ca. 1918.
Physical Description: [8 x 53 inches.]
Scope and Contents
Group portrait of the 52nd Balloon Company in Arcadia, California,
depicting: 1st Lt. Henry L. Hale, Comdg. Lt. W.J. Van Valkenburg, 2nd Lt., ca. 1918.
Also pictured: Sgt. Staufenberg, Balloon Comdr.; Sgt. Hallgren,; Sgt. Brizendine;
Sgt. Munzer; Sgt. Hannig; Sgt. Major; Sgt. Britt, 1st Sgt.; Sgt. Lander; Sgt. Perry,
Sgt. Gregory; Sgt. Weston. The United States Army operated a balloon training school
in Arcadia, California, during World War I.
International War Photo Service of San Antonio, Texas, photographer.
Box 3, Item 129
Pennsylvania Division ̶ Less Artillery ̶ On the Border, 1st Pennsylvania
Cavalry, Foreground. Camp Stewart, El Paso, Tex.
1916.
Physical Description: 20.5 cm x 122
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by J.U. Medley & I. Shulman, El Paso, Texas.
Box 3, Item 130
General Hodges Reviewing 16th Division, Camp Devens, Mass.
June, 1918.
Physical Description: 24 x 111.5
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by G. W. Lovell with Falk Photo Co., Boston.
Box 3, Item 131
104th Motor Supply Train, Capt. R.B. Myers, Commanding, Camp McClellan,
Ala.
February 27th,
1918.
Physical Description: 30.2 x 147
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by Richards Film Service, Inc., Montgomery, Alabama.
Box 3, Item 99
Redondo Beach Day, Monday, July 11, 1921, B.P.O. Elks' Grand Lodge
Reunion
1921
Physical Description: [8 x 40 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Miles F. Weaver. View of a group of beauty contestants on stage
in front of the Redondo Pavilion surrounded by a large crowd of bystanders. Two
Pacific Electric red cars are visible in the background.]
Box 3, Item 100
Redondo Beach Fashion Show and Bathing Beauty Parade
1924
Physical Description: [10 x 62-1/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Weaver, number 3255-1.]
Box 6, Item 101
Entrants chosen for "Miss Los Angeles" at Ocean Park, California
Pageant
1926
Physical Description: [10 x 42 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Weaver, number 5260-3.]
Box 3, Item 102
[Cast of John Steven McGroarty's Mission Play, standing in front of the San
Gabriel Mission, San Gabriel, California]
ca. 1924
Physical Description: [8 x 40-3/4 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Sanford and Black Photo News Service. The names of actors Patia
Powers [sic], Tyrone Powers [sic], R.D. McLean, and Frank Staples are written on the
verso.]
Box 3, Item 103
Mission Play, San Gabriel, With the Players
undated
Physical Description: [9-3/4 x 47 inches
(approx.).]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Keystone Cirkut Foto Company.]
Box 2, Item 104
John Greenleaf Whittier Birthday Banquet, the Ambassador [Hotel], Los
Angeles
December 17, 1923
Physical Description: [10 x 20-1/2
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Weaver, number 2652.]
Box 2, Item 105
Mother's 89th Birthday, Hollywood, California
May 16, 1930
Physical Description: [10 x 20 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by Weaver.]
Box 2, Item 107
[Group of unidentified men]
undated
Physical Description: [7-1/4 x 28-3/4
inches.]
Box 2, Item 107 copy 2
[Group of unidentified men]
undated
Physical Description: [7-1/4 x 28-3/4
inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Includes handwritten identifications on attached pieces of paper.]
Box 2, Item 110
Healing Service at Balboa Park. [Aimee Semple] McPherson
Revival
ca. 1920s
Physical Description: [8 x 33-1/2 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Bunnell Photo Shop, San Diego. Title and two versos from the Bible
(Matthew 15:30-31) printed on recto.]
Box 3, Item 111
Opening ceremonies at Memorial Coliseum, Tenth Olympic Games, Los
Angeles
1932
Physical Description: [10 x 48-3/4 inches.]
Box 2, Item 112
U.S. Battleship Maine
June 22, 1911
Physical Description: [10 x 32 inches.]
Scope and Contents
[Photo by G.H. Rice. View of the Maine in the cofferdam constructed in Havana
Harbor.]
Box 3, Item 132
Start of Gulf to Pacific Coast Flight, Ellington Field.
Jan. 20, 1919.
Physical Description: 20 x 99.5
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by H. Jago.
Box 3, Item 133
[U.S. Navy Dirigible, "Los Angeles," in a field outside a
hanger].
approximately 1925.
Physical Description: 20.5 x 85
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by R.S. Clements.
Box 3, Item 134
[Panorama composed of individual scenes of the Graf Zeppelin dirigible in
Lakehurst, New Jersey.
approximately
192-?
Physical Description: 20 x 112.5
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by H. Metz. Includes Graf Zeppelin in Hanger; Graf Zeppelin, Radio
Room; Graf Zeppelin Damaged Fin; Graf Zeppelin Sleeping Berth; Graf Zeppelin Passenger
Cabin]
Box 3, Item 135
U.S.S. Maine afloat in cofferdam.
Physical Description: 25.5 x 140.5
cm.
Physical Description: genreform: Gelatin silver print
;
Scope and Contents
Photo by Harris Bros. Co., Havana. #9980 inscribed in emulsion on print
