Overview of the Collection
Access
Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Sources consulted
Scope and Content
Related
materials in the Huntington Library
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Overview of the Collection
Title: Ernest Marquez
Photograph
Collection
Dates (inclusive): 1860-2009
Bulk dates: 1880s–1930s
Collection Number: photCL 555
Creator:
Marquez, Ernest,
1924-
Extent:
Approximately 10,900
photographs
and negatives + ephemera, in 97 boxes.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Photo Archives
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: The Ernest Marquez
Photograph
Collection contains
photographic prints, negatives,
photograph
albums and ephemera compiled by collector
Ernest Marquez, focused on the development of Santa Monica and Los Angeles from
1860s to 1980s, as well as other cities throughout California. The collection
notably contains many 19th-century cabinet cards and stereographs, and a rare group
of negatives, ca. 1890-1908, by early Los Angeles historian and amateur photographer
George W. Hazard documenting the city at the turn of the century.
Language: English.
Access
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services
Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
Administrative Information
Publication Rights
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to
quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such
activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is
one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ernest Marquez
Photograph
Collection, The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California.
Provenance
Purchased from Ernest Marquez, January 2014.
Biographical Note
Ernest Marquez (b. 1924) is a descendant of Mexican land grantees who owned the
6,656-acre Rancho Boca de Santa Monica, comprising what is now Santa Monica Canyon
and parts of Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades, California.
He grew up in Santa Monica Canyon and attended Canyon School and Santa Monica High
School, then served in the Navy during World War II. For most of his professional
career, he worked as a commercial artist for aerospace companies, retiring in the
1980s. He began collecting historical
photographs
in an effort to learn more about
the history of his family and Santa Monica. His curiosity and interests soon reached
beyond his own family's history, and he became a keen and well-known collector of
images of Santa Monica, as well as early Los Angeles and Southern California. Over a
period of 50 years, Marquez scoured flea markets, postcard shows and book fairs, and
made discerning trades and purchases, amassing more than 10,000
photographs
depicting the history of Southern California from 1860 through the 1980s.
Marquez also devoted time to researching and writing several books about the region's
history, including:
Santa Monica Beach: A Collector's Pictorial
History
(Angel City Press, 2004);
Port of Los Angeles: An
Illustrated History from 1850 to 1945,
with Veronique De Turenne, (Angel
City Press, 2007); and
Noir Afloat: Tony Cornero and the Notorious Gambling
Ships of Southern California
(Angel City Press, 2011).
In 2015, Marquez completed a personal project to create 34 decorative crosses for the
graves in the small, historic Marquez Family Cemetery on San Lorenzo Street in Santa
Monica Canyon. Marquez and his family care for and maintain the cemetery, which was
established in the late 1840s.
Sources consulted
Marquez, Ernest and Veronique De Turenne.
Port of Los Angeles: An
Illustrated History from 1850 to 1945
(Angel City Press, 2007)
Marquez, Ernest.
Santa Monica Beach: A Collector's Pictorial
History
(Angel City Press, 2004)
Newmark, Harris; edited by Maurice Harris Newmark, Marco Ross Newmark.
Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913, Containing the
Reminiscences of Harris Newmark
(The Knickerbocker Press, 1926)
Johnson, Michele, ed.
The Topanga Story - Expanded edition
(Topanga Historical Society, 2012)
Scope and Content
This is a collection primarily of negatives and photographic prints depicting the
growth of Santa Monica and Los Angeles from 1860s to 1980s. Many views are
cityscapes or street views, showing buildings, storefronts, homes and roads, and
documenting the use of railroads, trolleys, streetcars, and automobiles. There are
many card
photographs
by early professional photographers, and also a number of
snapshots made by amateurs, some in personal photo albums. The collection's scope
also includes early views of many other communities in Southern California (and a
few in other states); the beginnings of aviation in Santa Monica, including the
first Douglas Aircraft Company buildings; a photo album of residents in Topanga
Canyon, ca. 1913; automobile racing in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, 1920s; maritime
views; a photo album of U.S. troops in France during World War I; a 1949 real estate
development in Apple Valley, California, and others. Besides
photographs
, a portion
of the collection consists of scarce publications and historical ephemera, primarily
related to Santa Monica and Los Angeles, including brochures, advertising cards,
menus, event programs and other materials.
Highlights of the Santa Monica images are aerial views of the buildings along the
coast and pier (1920s); several views of the Arcadia Hotel (1880s); the Long Wharf
and adjoining railroad and train depot; the first bath houses on the beach; the
beach club culture of the 1920s and 1930s; the amusement piers of Santa Monica,
Ocean Park and Venice; and the beginnings of the Douglas Aircraft Company. There is
a large set of promotional
photographs
made late 1920s-1930s by Powell Press Service
depicting people enjoying Santa Monica's beaches, clubs and outdoor recreation.
An important subset within the collection is 407 negatives made ca. 1890 - 1908 by
Los Angeles historian and amateur photographer George W. Hazard (1842-1914). Hazard
travelled around Los Angeles and vicinity photographing the adobes, houses, streets
and storefronts that told the early history of the city. Many of Hazard's negatives
have handwritten identifications, naming streets, former homeowners, ranchos, and
other historical details.
There are a large number of cabinet cards and other card-mounted prints and
stereographs. There are 1,264 stereograph prints, highlighted by the works of
photographic pioneers William M. Godfrey, Francis Parker, Hayward & Muzzall, and
Carleton Watkins. Other formats represented are: glass and film negatives; panoramic
prints; 7
photograph
albums, photographic postcards, 20th-century color prints and
transparencies; and a small number of tintypes, cyanotypes and a set of
chromolithographs.
Alternative Form of Materials Available
Related
materials in the Huntington Library
- California's
Romantic Ranchos by Verne Dyson (unpublished manuscript and
photographs
,
mssHM 26404)
- Hazard-Dyson
Photograph
Collection (includes
photographs
by George W. Hazard)
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in the following 10 series:
- Series 01.
Photographic prints (stereographs
and panoramas are in separate series)
- Series 02.
Photograph
albums
and accompanying
items
- Vol. 1 Robert Hutton Topanga Canyon album, 1913-1921, + 5 folders
of loose
photographs
- Vol. 2 Robert Hutton Santa Monica High School album and scrapbook,
1917-1921.
- Vol. 3 Theresa Sletton Topanga Canyon album, ca. 1913
- Vol. 4 Apple Valley Ranchos
photograph
album, 1949
- Vol. 5 Travel album of San Diego and vicinity, ca. 1910s
- Vol. 6
Photograph
album of California and travels in the West, ca.
1915 -1933
- Vol. 7 World War I
photograph
album: "Photographic History of the
A.E.F. in France, 1917-1919" + 6 folders of photographic postcards
(accompanying album)
- Series 03.
Stereographs
- Series 04.
Panoramas
- Series 05.
Glass negatives
- Series 06.
Film negatives
- George W. Hazard negatives, ca. 1890-1908
- Powell Press Service negatives, ca. 1930s
- George Haley, "Los Angeles Evening Herald" negatives (bulk
1940s-50s)
- Bob Plunkett negatives (ca. 1928–1953)
- Other film negatives – various dates
- Series 07.
Ephemera and publications
- Series 08.
Copy prints
- Series 09.
Copy negatives
- Series 10.
Research files and original negative
envelopes
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Biscailuz, Eugene W.,
1883-1969 --
Photographs
.
Bowron, Fletcher,
1887-1968 --
Photographs
.
Douglas, Donald W.
(Donald Wills), 1892-1981 -–
Photographs
.
Gage, Henry Tifft,
1852-1924 – Homes and haunts –
Photographs
.
Garfias, Manuel –
Homes and haunts –
Photographs
.
Guinn, J. M. (James
Miller), 1834-1918 --
Photographs
.
Jones, John P. (John
Percival), 1829-1912 – Homes and haunts –
Photographs
.
King, Andrew Jackson,
1833-1923 --
Photographs
.
Machado family – Homes
and haunts –
Photographs
.
Oldfield, Barney,
1878-1946 --
Photographs
.
Peralta family – Homes
and haunts –
Photographs
.
Rolph, James,
1869-1934 --
Photographs
.
Sepulveda family –
Homes and haunts –
Photographs
.
Temple, Francis Pliny
F., 1822-1880 – Homes and haunts –
Photographs
.
Workman, William,
1799-1876 – Homes and haunts –
Photographs
.
Adobe houses -- California --
Photographs
.
Airplane factories -- California –
Santa Monica --
Photographs
.
Airplanes --
Photographs
.
Airports -- California -- Los Angeles
--
Photographs
.
Airships -- United States --
Photographs
.
Amusement piers --
Photographs
.
Apartment houses -- California -- Los
Angeles --
Photographs
.
Archery --
Photographs
.
Architecture, Domestic --
Photographs
.
Automobile racing -- California --
Photographs
.
Bathing beauties --
Photographs
.
Battleships -- United States --
Photographs
.
Beaches -- California --
Photographs
.
Beauty contests—California --
Photographs
.
Bernheimer Gardens (Hollywood, Los
Angeles, Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Bernheimer Gardens (Pacific Palisades,
Los Angeles, Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Boats and boating --
Photographs
.
Brewing industry – California -- Los
Angeles --
Photographs
.
Cemeteries -- California -- Los Angeles
--
Photographs
.
Cemeteries -- California -- Santa
Monica Canyon (Los Angeles County) --
Photographs
.
Chinese -- California --
Photographs
.
Chinese Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
--
Photographs
.
Criminals -- California -- Los Angeles.
Douglas Aircraft Company --
Photographs
.
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical
Monument (Los Angeles, Calif.)--
Photographs
.
Estudillo House (San Diego, Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Fire stations --
Photographs
.
Funeral rites and ceremonies --
Photographs
.
Girl Scouts of the United States of
America --
Photographs
.
Golf courses -- California --
Photographs
.
Los Angeles evening herald and express
--
Photographs
.
Los Angeles International Airport --
Photographs
.
High school students -- California --
Los Angeles --
Photographs
.
Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles, Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Horsemanship --
Photographs
.
Hotels -- California --
Photographs
.
Housing development -- United States --
Photographs
.
La Fiesta de Los Angeles --
Photographs
.
Leisure -- California, Southern --
History.
Los Angeles Railway --
Photographs
.
Los Angeles Transit Lines --
Photographs
.
Oil fields -- California --
Photographs
.
Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San
Gabriel, Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Santa Barbara Mission --
Photographs
.
Missions, Spanish -- California --
Photographs
.
Motion pictures -- Setting and scenery
--
Photographs
.
Motion picture industry -- California
-- Los Angeles --
Photographs
.
Mount Lowe Railway --
Photographs
.
Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (Mission :
Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Olympic Games (10th : 1932 : Los
Angeles, Calif.)--
Photographs
.
Pacific Electric Railway Company --
Photographs
.
Parades -- California --
Photographs
.
Parks -- California -- Los Angeles --
Photographs
.
Piers -- California -- Santa Monica --
Photographs
.
Pioneers -- California, Southern.
Plaza Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Railroads -- Buildings and structures
--
Photographs
.
Railroad stations -- California --
Photographs
.
Raymond Hotel (Pasadena, Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Recreation – Southern California --
Photographs
.
Real estate development -- California –
San Bernardino County --
Photographs
.
Ruins --
Photographs
.
Schools -- California --
Photographs
.
Schoolchildren --
Photographs
.
Shipwrecks -- California -- Honda,
Point --
Photographs
.
Soldiers' homes -- California -- Santa
Monica --
Photographs
.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
Theaters -- California -- Los Angeles
--
Photographs
.
Tourism -- California, Southern --
Photographs
.
United States. Army. American
Expeditionary Forces --
Photographs
.
University of California, Los Angeles
--
Photographs
.
Van Nuys Airport --
Photographs
.
Water-supply -- California -- Los
Angeles --
Photographs
.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns --
France --
Photographs
.
Agoura Hills (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Alhambra (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Apple Valley (Calif.)
--
Photographs
.
Arcadia (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Arrowhead Springs
(Calif.)
Artesia (Calif.) --
Buildings, structures, etc. --
Photographs
.
Azusa (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Bel Air (Los Angeles,
Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
--
Photographs
.
Brentwood (Los
Angeles, Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Chinatown (Los
Angeles, Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Culver City (Calif.)
--
Photographs
.
Glendale
(Calif.)--
Photographs
.
Hermosa Beach (Calif.)
--
Photographs
.
Hollister Ranch
(Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Hollywood (Los
Angeles, Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Inglewood (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Laguna Beach (Calif.)
--
Photographs
.
Long Beach (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Los Angeles (Calif.)
--
Photographs
.
Los Angeles County
(Calif.) -- History --
Photographs
.
Lowe, Mount (Los
Angeles County, Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Malibu (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Marina del Rey
(Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Monterey (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Newhall (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Olvera Street (Los
Angeles, Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Oxnard (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Pacific Palisades (Los
Angeles, Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Pasadena (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Piru, Lake (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Rancho Cañón de Santa
Ana (Calif.) -
Photographs
.
Rancho La Ballona --
Photographs
.
Rancho La Puente --
Photographs
.
Rancho Palos Verdes
(Calif.)--
Photographs
.
Rancho San Antonio
(Calif.)--
Photographs
.
Rancho San Pascual
(Calif.)--
Photographs
.
Redlands (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Redondo Beach
(Calif.)--
Photographs
.
Riverside County
(Calif.)--
Photographs
.
San Bernardino County
(Calif.)--
Photographs
.
San Diego (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
San Diego County
(Calif.)--
Photographs
.
San Gabriel (Calif.)
--
Photographs
.
San Fernando (Calif.)
--
Photographs
.
San Fernando Valley
(Calif.) --
Photographs
.
San Francisco
(Calif.)--
Photographs
.
San Pedro (Los
Angeles, Calif.)--
Photographs
.
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
--
Photographs
.
Santa Catalina Island
(Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Santa Monica (Calif.)
--
Photographs
.
Santa Monica Canyon
(Los Angeles County, Calif.) --
Photographs
.
South Pasadena
(Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Topanga (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Venice (Los Angeles,
Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Ventura (Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Ventura County
(Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Westwood (Los Angeles,
Calif.) --
Photographs
.
Wilmington (Los
Angeles, Calif.)--
Photographs
.
Wilson, Mount (Calif.
: Mountain) --
Photographs
.
United States --
History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans --
Photographs
.
Forms/Genres
Photographs
.
Negatives.
Postcards.
Chromolithographs.
Tintypes.
Cyanotypes.
Panoramic
photographs
.
Stereographs.
Photograph
albums.
Ephemera.
Contributors
Allen, D. C. (Darwin C.),
photographer.
Bailey, Chas. Z. (Charles Z.),
photographer.
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966, photographer
Bierstadt, Charles, 1819-1903.,
photographer.
Blanchard, James B., photographer.
Bonine, Elias A., 1843-1916,
photographer.
Bonine, R. (Robert K.), photographer.
Brewster, John Calvin, photographer.
Brigandi, Philip, 1873-1945,
photographer.
Clarke, William M., photographer.
Davis, James M., photographer.
Ellis, Lemuel S., approximately
1842-1902, photographer.
Fletcher, W. H. (William H.),
photographer.
Frese, Adolf, photographer.
Godfrey, W. M. (William Mollock),
1825-1900, photographer.
Haley, George W., 1879-1963, photographer
Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay),
1853-1921, photographer.
Hazard, George Washington, 1842-1914,
photographer.
Hazeltine, M. M. (Martin Mason),
1827-1903, photographer.
Houseworth, Thomas, 1829-1915,
photographer.
Jackson, B. D., 1850 or 1851-1937,
photographer.
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942,
photographer.
Johnson, C. W. J. (Charles Wallace
Jacob), 1833-1903, photographer.
Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West),
1827-1909, photographer.
Morrison, E. G., -1888, photographer.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904,
photographer.
Parker, F. (Francis), photographer.
Parker, Joseph C. (Joseph
Chamberland), 1834-1910, photographer.
Payne, H. T., approximately 1845-,
photographer.
Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.),
1861-1946, photographer.
Pierce, Edward W., photographer.
Plunkett, Bob, photographer
Putnam, J. R., photographer.
Rea, William J., photographer.
Reilly, John James, 1838-1894,
photographer.
Rieder, M., photographer.
Rile, H. F., 1860-1949, photographer.
Schumacher, Frank G., 1861-
photographer.
Stanton, T. E. (Thomas E.),
photographer.
Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West),
1830-1912, photographer.
Tuttle, W. N., photographer.
Tyler, O. E., active 1883-1884,
photographer.
Varela, A. C. (Alexander C.),
1839-1915, photographer.
Waite, C. B. (Charles Betts),
1861-1927, photographer.
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916,
photographer.
Weaver, M. F. (Miles F.), 1879-1932,
photographer.
Wesner, H. B., photographer.
Westervelt, James D., 1844-,
photographer.
Withey, Henry F., architect.
California Art Foto Company,
photographer.
Charles Beseler Co., photographer.
Continent Stereoscopic Company,
photographer.
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm),
photographer.
Ellis & Son (Los Angeles,
Calif.), photographer.
F. H. Rogers & Co., photographer.
Garden City Photo Co., photographer.
Graham Photo Co. (Los Angeles,
Calif.), photographer.
Griffith & Griffith,
photographer.
H. C. White Co., photographer.
Hayward & Muzzall, photographer.
Jarvis (Firm : Pasadena, Calif.),
photographer.
Kelley & Chadwick, photographer.
Keystone View Company, photographer.
Payne, Stanton & Co., 1881-1886,
photographer.
Powell Press Service, photographer.
Putnam & Valentine, photographer.
Spence Air Photos (Firm),
photographer.
Strohmeyer & Wyman, photographer.
Underwood & Underwood,
photographer.
Universal Photo Art Co.,
photographer.
Webster & Albee, photographer.