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Banning Family Collection of Photographs, Part I: Finding Aid
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Box List

 

Photographs

Box 1

Photographs 1-142

Box 2

Photographs 143-243

Box 3

Photographs244-345

Box 4

Photographs346-415

Box 5

Photographs 416-537

Box 6

Photographs 538-640

Box 7

Photographs 641-717

 

Scrapbook and oversize item

Box 8

Scrapbook and oversize item

 

Glass plate negatives

Box 9

Glass plate negatives, 216-232

Box 10

Glass plate negatives, 233-252

Box 11

Glass plate negatives, 671-717

 

Subject List

 

Banning Family

Box 1, Item 1

Phineas Banning, undated

Note

[Photo by Bradley and Rulofson.]
Box 3, Item 274

"Captain" William Banning, 1868

Note

[Photo by Silas Selleck, San Francisco.]
Physical Description: [Carte-de-visite.]
Box 1, Item 2

Bradley Sanatorium Benefit, ca. 1904

Note

["Captain" William Banning, Hancock Banning and others in costume.]
Box 2, Item 148-159

"Captain" William Banning, ca. 1920s, undated

Note

[Photos by Taber; Phelps, San Pedro; Stagg; Boye; Keystone.]

Note

[Portraits; with stagecoaches.]

Note

[Number 159 removed for conservation.]
Physical Description: [148: carte-de-visite.]
Box 4, Item 364-370

La Fiesta de Los Angeles, 1895

Note

[Featuring "Captain" Banning's six-in-hand.]

Note

[Photos by C.B. Waite; Schumacher.]
Box 4, Item 387-409

"Captain" Banning's carriages, ca. 1900, ca. 1902, ca. 1906, ca. 1920, 1927, ca. 1930, ca. 1940, undated

Note

[Includes views of Banning's six-in-hand on camping trips in Yosemite; images of Banning's various stagecoaches; Banning and Will Rogers on Banning's stagecoach at the Los Angeles County Fair; Banning and Tony Machado on a stagecoach on the Diamond Bar Ranch in Walnut, California; Banning and members of the Overland Stage Coach Club.]

Note

[Includes clipping from Los Angeles Times about Banning and his stagecoach and letter from G.H. Banning about copies of a photograph of Banning's stagecoach.]

Note

[Photos by Keystone; Huddleston.]

Note

[Number 391 removed for conservation.]
Box 4, Item 410

"Captain" Banning, ca. 1940

Box 7, Item 654

"Captain" Banning and P.K. Wrigley, ca. 1935

Box 3, Item 275-286

Hancock Banning, Sr., 1868, ca. 1900, 1910, 1916-1920, 1922, undated

Note

[Photos by Schumacher; Marceau, San Francisco.]

Note

[Includes photographs of Banning in Bartlett Springs; the Bartlett Springs Hotel; Bohemian Grove gathering.]
Box 1, Item 3-4

Banning family members, ca. 1910s

Box 1, Item 17-27

Banning family members, April 28, 1926

Note

[Group portraits on steps of Banning residence, Wilmington, and on stagecoach.]
Box 1, Item 113-121

Banning family members, 1893, 1895, undated

Note

[Joseph Brent Banning, Jr. and Katharine Mary Banning; Joseph Brent Banning, Sr., Joseph Brent Banning, Jr., and William Phineas Banning; Hancock Banning, Jr.; Mrs. Anne (Hancock) Banning; Hancock Banning, Sr.]

Note

[Photos by Schumacher.]
Box 2, Item 163-175

Banning family members, 1888-1890, undated

Note

[William Lowber Banning; Katharine Stewart Banning; Mrs. William Lowber Banning; Lucy and Mary Banning.]

Note

[Number 173 annotated on reverse by Phineas Banning.]

Note

[Includes views of Conejo Ranch, Ventural County.]

Note

[Photos by C. A. Zimmerman, St. Paul; Louis Thors, San Francisco; Golsh]
Physical Description: [Number 165: cyanotype.]
Box 2, Item 182-192

Banning family members and friends, 1892-1893, 1899, undated

Note

[Joseph Brent Banning, Jr.; Nita Patton; Kathryn Banning Graves; Alice Morse Banning; Mrs. William Phineas Banning; Isabelle Lockwood; Lockwood family; "Blithewood," Asheville, North Carolina--home of Isabelle Lockwood.]

Note

[Photos by Essery, St. Paul; Ingersoll, St. Paul; Lindsey's, Asheville.]
Box 2, Item 233-236

Banning family at Conejo Ranch, Ventura County, ca. 1890s

Physical Description: [Copy prints from glass plate negatives.]
Box 7, Item 641-649

Banning family members and friends on Catalina, ca. 1900, 1902, ca. 1910, undated

Box 7, Item 650-653

Banning employees, Catalina, undated

Box 7, Item 700-717

Banning and Patton family members, undated

Note

[Most images taken on Catalina.]
Box 2, Item 160-162

Miscellaneous family images, 1887, undated

Note

[Interior of "The Barn," William Banning's house at 31st and Hoover, Los Angeles; playacting a hold-up; the Barn, Wilmington.]

Note

[Photos by Golsh.]
 

Banning residences (Wilmington, Compton Ranch, Catalina)

Note

[See also section on Santa Catalina Island for views of Banning residences there.]
Box 1, Item 14-16

Banning residence, Wilmington, undated

Note

[Views of the house and grounds.]
Box 2, Item 193-225

Banning residence, Wilmington, ca. 1880, 1887-1888, 1905, 1912, 1927, undated

Physical Description: [Numbers 193-213: Copy prints from original photographs. Numbers 216-225: copy prints from glass plate negatives.]

Note

[House and grounds; family members in and around grounds and gardens.]

Note

[No numbers 214, 215.]
Box 7, Item 671-687

Banning residence, Wilmington, undated

Physical Description: [Copy prints from glass plate negatives.]
Box 4, Item 411-415

Halfway House, Compton Ranch, ca. 1920

 

Views of Wilmington and San Pedro

Box 1, Item 5

Motorcade [on Canal Avenue?], Wilmington, ca. 1920s

Note

[Santa Catalina Island Company warehouse in background.]

Note

[Photo by Keystone Photo Service.]
Box 1, Item 8

Wharf [at Wilmington? Catalina?], undated

Box 1, Item 9-13

Views of Wilmington, 1911-1912

Box 2, Item 226-232

Views of Wilmington and San Pedro, ca. 1877, ca. 1880, ca. 1885, undated

Note

[Chinese laundry; Mr. Valentine, employee of Phineas Banning, on porch of unidentifed office; Canal Street wharf; San Pedro harbor.]
Box 3, Item 280-316.1

Views of Wilmington, ca. 1865, 1875-1877, ca. 1905, ca. 1910, 1912, 1924, ca. 1930, 1944, undated

Note

[Banning industrial properties in Wilmington (quartermaster's barn, Freis and A Streets); Wilmington terminal of Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad; stores and machine shops; Canal Street; Main Street; portrait of George Joseph Smart, Banning Company accountant; first battleship through Panama Canal docked at foot of Avalon Boulevard; Episcopal Church; Mormon Island.]

Note

[Photos by Godfrey; Joseph Brent Banning.]
Box 3, Item 317-345

Views of San Pedro, 1850, ca. 1872-1878, 1895, 1899-1905, 1908, undated

Note

[Harbor; Timm's Landing; Deadman's Island and first breakwater; Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad locomotives and tug boat; Southern Pacific Railroad depot; breakwater construction.]

Note

[Photos by Godfrey; Joseph Brent Banning.]
 

Santa Catalina Island

Note

[See also section on Banning family residences for additional Banning homes.]
Box 1, Item 28-112

Views of Santa Catalina Island, 1886, 1892, 1902, 1915, 1918, undated

Note

[Includes landscapes; Indian mortar holes; mountain incline railway; views of Avalon and the harbor; Hotel Metropole; yachts; Hotel St. Catherine; steamships; 1915 fire; Banning home, El Descanso; Little Harbor; Johnson's Landing; S.S. Avalon; Joseph Brent Banning memorial; the barracks at the Isthmus; the Isthmus, with photographs of potential development sites there; construction of infrastructure at the Isthmus; Camp Eagle Nest; Middle Ranch.]

Note

[Photos by Swenson; Dewey; P.V. Reyes; Putnam and Valentine; Herve Friend; Putnam; Park and Company.]

Note

[Numbers 36, 37 removed for conservation.]
Box 2, Item 237-243

The Isthmus, Santa Catalina Island, ca. 1890, undated

Physical Description: [Copy prints from glass plate negatives.]

Note

[Photos by Joseph Brent Banning.]
Box 5, Item 416-423

Ships at Avalon, 1887-ca. 1904

Note

[Photos by P.V. Reyes; Swenson.]
Box 5, Item 424-476

Views of Avalon, ca. 1885-1911

Note

[Includes view of damage done by 1905 storm.]

Note

[Photos by P.V. Reyes; Dewey, Los Angeles; E.M. Brickey.]
Box 5, Item 477-497

Avalon fire, November 1915

Box 5, Item 498-500

Arch Rock, undated

Box 5, Item 501-505

Sugar Loaf, undated

Box 5, Item 506-509

The Isthmus, ca. 1913, undated

Note

[Photos by Swenson; Joseph Brent Banning; P.V. Reyes.]
Box 5, Item 510-516a

Roads and road building, 1900-1908

Box 5, Item 517-530

El Descanso [Hancock Banning family home, Catalina Island], 1896-ca. 1920

Note

[Views of the house and grounds. Includes piece of stationery with "El Descanso/Avalon Santa Catalina Island" imprinted.]

Note

[Photos by P.V. Reyes; Ironmonger.]
Box 5, Item 531-537.1

Hotel St. Catherine, ca. 1917

Note

[Views of the hotel and blasting for the roadway.]
Box 6, Item 538-540

Golf links, ca. 1900

Note

[Photos by Swenson.]
Box 6, Item 541

Camp Wilson, undated

Box 6, Item 544-547

Incline cable car, ca. 1902-1908

Note

[Photos by P.V. Reyes.]

Note

[Numbers 542, 543, 546 missing as of April 2007.]
Box 6, Item 549-554

Middle Ranch, ca. 1890s

Box 6, Item 555-564

Serpentine rock quarry, ca. 1900-1902

Note

[Photos by Swenson.]
Box 6, Item 565-566

Serpentine stone, Cottonwood Canyon, 1907

Box 6, Item 567-572

Stage road views, ca. 1895-1896, 1899, undated

Note

[Includes views of "Captain" Banning driving his stagecoach.]

Note

[Photos by Detroit Photographic Company; Swenson; Ironmonger.]

Note

[Number 575 removed for conservation.]
Box 6, Item 573-590

Santa Catalina Island Stage Company, ca. 1900-1905

Note

[T.J. Green, proprietor and driver. Views of stagecoaches and the stage road.]

Note

[Photos by Swenson; Detroit Photographic Company; C.B. Waite.]
Box 6, Item 591

First automobile on Catalina, ca. 1902

Box 6, Item 592

Seal Rock, undated

Box 6, Item 593-603

Ships and boats, 1884, 1887, 1889, ca. 1900, undated

Note

[Photos by E.M. Brickey]
Box 6, Item 604-612.1

Glass bottom boats, ca. 1905

Note

[No print for number 612.]
Box 6, Item 613-640

Various outings on Catalina, ca. 1916, 1919

Note

[Unidentified individuals sailing, at picnics.]
Box 8, Item Scrapbook

Santa Catalina Island, 1978-1979, undated

Note

[Scrapbook containing copy prints of views of Catalina originally published by M. Rieder, including views of Avalon and Avalon Bay, El Descanso (home of Hancock Banning); various beaches and landscape scenes. The scrapbook also contains George S. Pattons, Jr.'s calling card; memo to the heirs of Mary Banning Norris in regards to the sale of Banning family property in Wilmington and a note in regards to the memo by Hancock Banning; and a press release from the Historic Lexington [Virginia] Foundation about the opening of the Jackson House.]
 

Friends of the Banning Family

Box 1, Item 122-137

Vail family members, 1889, 1891, undated

Note

[Walter Vail; Mrs. Walter Vail; Russell Vail; Walter Vail, Jr.; William Banning Vail; Mary Vail; Mahlon Vail; Margaret Vail.]

Note

[Photos by Westervelt; Schumacher; H. Buehman, Tucson.]
Box 1, Item 138-142

Patton family members, undated

Note

[Beatrice Ayer Patton; George S. Patton, Jr.; George S. Patton, III.]

Note

[Photos by Lothrop and Cunningham, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.]
Box 3, Item 244-252

Patton family, ca. 1898, 1900, 1901, undated

Note

[Family groups at Lake Vineyard, Patton family estate in San Marino, California; Banning and Patton families on Catalina.]
Physical Description: [Copy prints from glass plate negatives.]
Box 7, Item 660-669

Patton and Ayers families, undated

Note

[George S. Patton, Sr.; Beatrice Banning Ayer Patton; Frederick Ayer; George S. Patton, Jr.; cadet barracks, Virginia Military Institute; Nita Patton; Mrs. Ayers (?).]

Note

[Photos by Hemenway; Steckel.]
Box 7, Item 688-699

Patton family at Lake Vineyard, San Marino, California, 1897, undated

Physical Description: [Copy prints from glass plate negatives.]
Box 2, Item 147

Lake Vineyard [Patton Family estate, San Marino, California] interior, undated

Box 3, Item 253-271

Lake Vineyard [Patton family estate, San Marino, California] and Patton family, ca. 1888, ca. 1894, 1900, ca. 1920, undated

Note

[Photos by L.J. Mitchell.]

Note

[Includes portraits of Susan Glassell Patton (Mrs. William Demoyne Wills) and William Demoyne Wills.]

Note

[No numbers 269, 272-273.]
Box 7, Item 655-658

Lake Vineyard [Patton family estate, San Marino, California], San Marino, undated

Note

[Views of the grounds and haying.]

Note

[No number 659.]
Box 7, Item 670

Howard Huntington and family, ca. 1910

 

Miscellaneous Individuals

Box 1, Item 6

Unidentified group of men standing by Banning stagecoach and automobile, ca. 1920s

Note

[Photo by Keystone Photo Service.]
Box 1, Item 7

Miss Christine Mueller christening the Catalina steamer Avalon in the shipyard of her father William Mueller, shipbuilder to William Banning, undated

Box 2, Item 143-146.1

Miscellaneous portraits, 1886, 1896, undated

Note

[Dora Jane Flood; William G. Halstead; Sacramento Relief Committee; unidentified baby.]

Note

[Photo by Marceau, San Francisco.]

Note

[Number 146.1 rehoused in Box 8.]
Box 4, Item 373-386.

Miscellaneous people, ca. 1892, 1909, ca. 1915, undated

Note

[Includes photograph of the Mount Lowe incline railway cable car with Thaddeus Lowe, George S. Patton Sr., and George S. Patton, Jr.; George Lathrop; Sidney Wailes; Adelaide Brown; Mrs. Randolph Huntington Miner; Robert Ingraham; Fritz Demuler (?); N.W. Bell; Hobart Glassell Brown; Bill McCay.]
 

Miscellaneous

Box 2, Item 176-181

Ships and boats, undated

Note

[The Companero, William Banning's yacht; sinking ships; steamship New York; sailing ships in Boston harbor; ship being built.]

Note

[Photos by Scott; William B. Holmes, New York; G.O. Ayer, Boston.]
Physical Description: [Number 181: stereograph.]
Box 4, Item 346-350

Views of Long Beach, ca. 1880, 1887, ca. 1925, undated

Note

[Long Beach Hotel; Wilmington-Long Beach Rapid Transit railroad car; Long Beach harbor.]

Note

[Photos by Joseph Brent Banning.]
Box 4, Item 351-363

Ships, 1884, ca. 1890, ca. 1900, undated

Note

[Photos by J.H. Easton; Joseph Brent Banning.]
Box 4, Item 371

Unidentified train in unidentified location, undated

Box 4, Item 372

Teams unloading wheat at the Southern Pacific Milling Company warehouse, Paso Robles, October 24, 1895

Collection Contents
Box List
Photographs
Scrapbook and oversize item
Glass plate negatives
Subject List
Banning Family
Banning residences (Wilmington, Compton Ranch, Catalina)
Views of Wilmington and San Pedro
Santa Catalina Island
Friends of the Banning Family
Miscellaneous Individuals
Miscellaneous
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