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DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2233
title: The two-story Mission-style Fire Station Eleven at 1819 West Seventh Street, ca.1910

description: Photograph of the two-story Mission-style Fire Station Eleven at 1819 West Seventh Street, complete with bell in the bell tower, ca.1910. A horse is hitched to an engine in one bay. Four firemen are in the other bay in front of which stand two boys on the sidewalk. Utility poles and lines are visible. Legible signs include: "Truck D", "Engine No. 11", "L.A.F.D.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6346
title: Mission San Gabriel bell tower before pepper trees were cut down, ca.1890

description: Photograph of Mission San Gabriel bell tower before pepper trees were cut down, ca.1890. There are four bells in the tower but, apparently, space for six. A person in light shirt and dark pants is standing at a low wall at the base of the bell tower with his left hand on the wall. To the left of the bell tower, a sloping roof can be seen. Vines growing along the side of the building are visible reaching the top of the roof. A large tree is partial seen to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m15449
title: Spring Street looking north from Sixth Street, ca.1915

description: Photograph of Spring Street looking north from Sixth Street, ca.1915. Horse-drawn carriages and automobiles are parked along the curbs. A electric streetcars are in the middle of the street among sparse automobile traffic. Pedestrians move along the sidewalks. Most of the buildings are 5 stories or higher with businesses at street level and commercial and residential on upper floors. Legible signs include: "Factory", "529, Trunkdom Trunk Co., 529", "Trunks, bags, leather goods", "Silver Collars", "Spring step, rubber heels, [...] minutes", "urant [...] Brauer", "office",  "Security Building", "Security Trust and Savings Bank, safe deposit vaults", "streetcar "Exposition Park, University, West 39th Street", "Hibernian Building", "Fredericks", "Ralphs Grocery Co.", "516, Whorter Bros. Hardware, 516", "518, McKee's Cafe, 520", "We serve everything good to eat and drink, It's clean, that's sure, McKee's Cafe, 518-520 So. Spring St., McKee's Taxicab Service, phone F-6328, Main 2559", "Greet[...], from one that every[...], after the n", "L.A. Realty Si", "Oriental Art Association", "Call for L.A. Bre'g Co.'s 'East side' beer", "Auction, 3 days more, Our last Dec.", "Walberg Bros., tailors", "Dr. R.L. Byron, Dr. [...] Carter", "Trobeck & Johnson, merchant tailors", "woolens", "H.K. Dow", "Dr. Ray Bean, dentist", "Burlington Route", "Lissner Offices", "Watches & diamonds, great jewelrey s[...], lease expire[...], look in windows for bargains", "Great 1/2 price sale", "526", "E. Mansback", "Wines, Edward Mansback", "Wines & liquor", "Edward Mansback & C", "Burger Van & Storage Co., concrete fireproof warehouse, near Pico & Grand Ave.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m95
title: Broadway looking north from Fourth Street, ca.1904-1905

description: Photograph of Broadway looking north from Fourth Street, ca.1904-1905. Horse-drawn carriages are parked along the curbs and share the street with an electric streetcar (in the distance) and a few automobiles. Most of the buildings are 4-stories or taller. Businesses occupy the street level, residential and commercial tenants and occupy upper floors. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalks and across the street. A tall pile of construction debris litters the sidewalk at left.; Legible signs include: ..."Fourth", ..."Cummings"..., "Sanborn, Vail & Co.", ..."real estate", "Dr. W[...], dentist", ..."Bros. [...]hirts", "Homer Laughlin B'ld'g, absolutely fireproof", "Chamber of Commerce", "Brock & Teagan's, watch & jewelry repairer", "Shrader's Shoe Store", "Homoeopath[...] Pharmac"..., "404".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m139
title: Birdseye view of Broadway looking north from Eighth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1913

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of Broadway looking north from Eighth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1913. Automobiles are parked along the curb. A few cars and fewer horse-drawn wagons and carriages share the street with 2 streetcars. American flags fly from several buildings including the roof of the 12-story block building (Los Angeles Investment Building (later Chapman Building) and Morosco Theatre) at center. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalks. A clock (8:58) stands on the sidewalk at left. Legible signs include: banner hung across street "Pastor Russell, Temple Auditorium, Friday, June 13th, 8pm", streetcars "Pico Heights", "West 11th St.", "Pantages, unequaled vaudeville, American artists, popular matinees", "Walter P. Story Building", "Mullen & Blu[...] clothing", "644, 646, California Furniture Company", "Lyon-McKinney Smith Co.", "Morosco Theatre", "Garrick Theatre", "Broadway"..., "Model lu[...] [...]oom", "Colburn's [...] furriers", "Benham Company, Navajo rugs, art leather, woven baskets, souvenirs", "Special sale on all goods this month"..., ..."special prices"..., "Indian Room", "For rent"..., "Mirhan & Co., oriental rugs", ..."tern Outfitting Company, adjoining Pacific Electric [...], Furniture Co"..., ..."rug store", ..."avnow's", "Ca"..., "Hotel entrance", ..."814, Victor Shop, 814, talking machines, records, supplies", "Musical Record Company", "Vehicles must not [...] here and next corner", "Dr. Beebe", "Harry B. Goodman Co.", "Law office, Powers, Marioneaux & Lady", "Emma M. Carson, M.D., physician & surgeon", "Dr. F.M. Hunt, dentist", "Guy [...]ly, M.D."..., "T.H. Unland, dentist", "Devoline Institute, Dr. Francis Percival, Devoline [Oxyoline?] specialist", "San Francisco Life".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7579
title: Painting of rocky Monterey coast, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a painting of the rocky coastline of Monterey, ca.1900. Several rocks jut out of the choppy water in the foreground. Small plants cling to the rocky embankment at left. An island or part of the coast is in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3314
title: Otis Carillon at the Santa Monica Boulevard entrance to Hollywood Cemetery, ca.1903-1906

description: Photograph of the Otis Carillon (from the rear) at the Santa Monica Boulevard entrance to Hollywood Cemetery, ca.1903-1906. The mission-style stone Otis Carillon building dominates the entry. A wooden fence with stone posts surrounds the cemetery. The carillon was presented to the Cemetery by General Harrison Gray Otis in memory of his wife, Eliza A. Otis. Utility poles and lines can be seen over the houses outside the cemetery. The mountains are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3315
title: Santa Monica Boulevard entrance to Hollywood Cemetery, ca.1902-1903

description: Photograph of the Santa Monica Boulevard entrance to Hollywood Cemetery, ca.1902-1903. The mission-style stone Otis Carillon building dominates the entrance. A wooden fence surrounds the cemetery at right, a wire fence at left. A dedication engraved below a cupola on a short tower next to an open gate reads "Hollywood Cemetery, 1902", below that "Hollywood Cemetery Association [...] officers".... The carillon was presented to the Cemetery by General Otis in memory of his wife, Eliza A. Otis.  Additional information: The tower was dramatically reconfigured in 1904 to house the Eliza Otis (1833-1904) Memorial Bells commissioned by her friends. Circa 1932, the tower, covered porch and gatepost were demolished to make way for a new cemetery wall (the bells were moved to a new bell tower at a new cemetery entrance). The chapel was used as a shed to house the mechanical plant for the irrigation system for more than 60 years, until 1998. The chapel has now been rehabbed as a venue. C. C. Pierce is buried at this cemetery, now called "Hollywood Forever". He was married to Hattie Gower, the youngest of John and Mary Gower's five children (the whole family is buried at Hollywood Forever). In 1899 Mary Gower sold part of the Gower Ranch, which the family had owned since 1869 to James Lankershim (a family friend) and Issac Van Nuys to establish the cemetery.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m15452
title: Lily pond on "Lucky" Baldwin's ranch, Arcadia

description: Photograph of the lily pond on Elias J. ("Lucky") Baldwin's Rancho Santa Anita (later the Arboretum), Arcadia. At least part of the pond is surrounded by a row of field stones atop a low stone wall. A large willow tree is in the foreground. Part of a post and rail fence is visible in the distance. Additional large trees, including another willow are in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9185
title: Close-up of grapefruits and blossoms

description: Photograph of a close-up of a cluster of about 25 grapefruits and blossoms hanging from a tree in a grove, ca. 1910.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m15453
title: Portrait of Thaddeus S.C. Lowe and family, ca.1890

description: Photographic portrait of Thaddeus S.C. Lowe and family, ca.1890. The portrait is matted in an oval cutout. Approximately three or four generations appear to be represented in the group of seventeen people (five men, three boys, six women and four girls). Mount Lowe was named after Thaddeus Lowe.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m15454
title: Whale rock, near Matilija Creek, Ventura County, ca.1900-1930

description: Photograph of Whale rock (shaped like a whale), near Matilija Creek, Ventura County, California. Small trees, bushes and scrub grass grow at the foot of the rocky outcropping.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14310
title: Portrait of Cocopan, a Yuma Indian warrior

description: Photograph of of Cocopan(?), a Yuma Indian warrior. Taken in a studio. He is standing, holding bow and arrow in his left hand. He is wearing a striped shirt with scarf around his neck and button-down pants. The fake backdrop behind him is of a forest scene.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2201
title: Exterior of Lincoln High School on North Broadway in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, ca.1928

description: Photograph of an exterior view of Lincoln High School on North Broadway in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, ca.1928. The stately white school consists of three principal buildings -- a 3-story main building at the head of a long flight of steps up a landscaped embankment, another smaller 3-story building to the left, and an auditorium higher up the hill above the main building. Many palm trees grow in a cluster on the grounds as well as in a line along the street below. Mostly bare hills are visible behind. In the foreground are roofs of houses and trees across the street. Utility lines and poles line the street. Legible signs include: "Lincoln High School".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8005
title: La Brea Oil Field, ca.1910-1930

description: Photograph of a General Petroleum Company oil field, possibly the Fullerton Oil Field, in La Brea Canyon, Orange County, California, ca.1910-1930. Numerous oil derricks dot the hilly landscape devoid of all trees. Holding tanks and small utilitarian structures huddle around the base of the wells. An unpaved road is visible in the left foreground as is a utility pole.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2218
title: Skyence Over Skill, advertising Great Western balloon mail delivery, 1859

description: Photograph of a cartoon advertisement entitled "Skyence over Skill" depicting superior mail delivery via balloon (Great Western airship) versus sea (boat towed by sea creatures), 1859. Published in 1859 at about the time during which the British were building the ship "The Great Eastern" for laying the Atlantic cable. A Yankee conceived the idea of the Great Western Airline in competition with the ship. The creative cartoonist attached an emergency escape ocean sailing vessel below the balloon. "Designed, drawn on stone and published by W.T. Crane; entered according to act of Congress in the year 1859, by W.T. Crane in the Clerk's Office of the Distric Court of the Southern District of N.Y." -- printed at bottom.; Transcriptions: Ship passengers: "Ahoy there! Re Jollys, un... an... wart is thart"; "Hi declare, Usband, what's the matter 'ere?"; "Wy! hit's nuthink but some blarsted Yankee umbug a beating us!"; "Yaw! yaw!! dart ish goot, vare goot."; "Pooh! we can soon fix that, theire huff with hun... Harmstrong Gun."; "Viva la Republique."; "Haw! Aw! wot is this... wish I preceve befaw me with handle towards me?"; "Saay yeon Mr. Captin up there. I reckon I'll cum hum in that aire craft!" Ship captain: "My Hyes! but these Bloody Yankees have a beating me hat heverythink lately!" Ship: "GREAT EASTERN." Mermaid: "I wonder why my old friend Barnum... never thought of this!" 1st sea creature to 2nd: "I'm thinking, comrade, that we wont sell... after we arrive at the Zoological Gardens; Look overhead!" 2nd sea creature to Neptune: "Look out Nep! of they'll harness you next." Neptune sitting on rock: "Confound these old Land Lubbers, they have driven me from my element with their wires & screws." Passing shale: "Thy gas! Oh man, has saved many of us: may it now save thee!" Airship: "U.S.M. GREAT WESTERN, New York"; "New York & London Line throught in 48 hours."; "posutively no humbug and no gunpowder or lime taken"; United States mail and female line."; "Lowes Air Line"; "Room for one more"; "Western New York"; Terms cash only, 50,000 tons, fare $10 and nobody found (if lost)". Airship passengers: "Have a tow Johnny?"; "Give us your specie and mail bag"; Ocean: "Only one share left... enquire of C.W. Field."
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12697
title: Newspaper illustration of the Great Eastern ship entering New York Harbor, June 20, 1860

description: Photograph of a newspaper illustration of the Great Eastern, for many years the largest ship afloat, entering New York harbor on June 20, 1860. Also included is a cross-section diagram of the ship along the keel. The ship was outfitted with huge steam-driven paddle wheels as well as a full complement of sails. The ship is surrounded by dozens of small row boats, sail boats, and steam boats. Reads, "The Great Eastern now in the Harbor of New York".; Visible portion of the newspaper clipping reads: "'Great Eastern' Steamship' It was in the year 1854 that Mr. Isambard K. Brunel communicated to Mr. J. Scott Russell his plan for the construction of a monster ship for the Indian trade. The naval scheme met his approval. He thought well of it, and declared that he was ready to second the views of the eminent engineer in whose brain the scheme had been matured. Nor was his confidence misplaced. Of all living British engineers, Isambard Kingdom Brunel had the best claim to respect. He was the son of a French engineer, who, having left his country... ...illness prevented his accompanying the great ship down the Thames, he was duly made aware of her success; whether he ever heard of the explosion, and, if yes, whether he was properly acquainted with the evidence it supplied of the real strength of the ship we know not. On 16th September, at his residence, his overwrought brain avenged itself upon his body, and he died of paralysis. Only a year or two since he escaped a singular and inglorious death. He was playing with the child of a friend, and to amuse it was throwing sovereigns into his mouth, and pretending to make them disappear with the conjuror's cry of Presto. He threw one sovereign into his mouth with such force that it entered the gullet, and stuck there, edgewise, wholly closing the passage. Friends who were called were unable to remove it; and had the doctor, who was sent for, been delayed a few minutes later, the great engineer would have been a corpse when he arrived."
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1722
title: Street view of Dr. Tolhurst's large apartment house located at 726-730 South Figueroa Street near Seventh Street, Los Angeles, between 1903-1907

description: Photograph of the front street view of Dr. Tolhurst's large apartment house located at 726-730 South Figueroa Street near Seventh Street, Los Angeles, between 1903 and 1907. The 3-story structure sports 3 square towers with tile roofs. Square brick pillars support the front of the house, framing 3 walk-up porches. Two large trees grow from square gaps in the sidewalk in front. Smaller houses are visible at either side of the flats. Electric lines run overhead. The street is unpaved. According to the 1906 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, the Tolhurst apartment building had six apartments -- 726, 726-1/2, 728, 728-1/2, 730, and 730-1/2.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12322
title: Five workmen standing around the rotary drill system in action, Brayer Field, ca.1910

description: Photograph of five workmen standing around the rotary drill system in action, Brayer Field, ca.1910. The apparatus is located in a corrugated metal drilling shack with wood floor. Large articulated chains transfer the engine's power ninety degrees to the drill. Three men in stained work clothes watch the drill from the left while another man in work clothes and a man in a suit watch from the right. Daylight shines on the thick chain from the cracks in the ceiling and back wall. This is not in California.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m20210
title: Three Shasta daises in a narrow glass vase, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of three Shasta daises in a narrow glass vase, [s.d.]. Two daisies are shown against a neutral background, facing at roughtly right angles to each other, the middlemost hanging down. The shadow of the vase is visible to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1723
title: Two Shasta daises in a narrow glass vase, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of two Shasta daises in a narrow glass vase, [s.d.]. Two daisies are shown against a neutral background, facing at roughtly right angles to each other. The shadow of the vase is visible to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m15455
title: Date palm (Australia Palm) heavy with huge clusters of fruit near Indio in Riverside County, ca.1920

description: Photograph of a date palm (Australia Palm) heavy with huge clusters of fruit (300 pounds of dates), near Indio in Riverside County, ca.1920. The squat tree is growing in a raised mound of dirt at center. Other non-palm trees are visible in a thick growth in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13387
title: Close-up of a large cultivated mushroom

description: Photograph of a close-up of a specimen of a large cultivated mushroom. Looking up into the crown from the base of the stem. A ruler in the image shows the diameter of the crown to be about 7 inches. On a neutral background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m15456
title: Close-up of a large cultivated mushroom

description: Photograph of a close-up of a specimen of a large cultivated mushroom. Looking up into the crown from the base of the stem. A man's hand is holding the mushroom by its stem. Comparison with the man's hand shows the mushroom to have a crown measuring about 7 inches in diameter. On a neutral background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6111
title: Exterior view of the residence of Professor Thaddeus(?) S.C. Lowe, Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, ca.1889-1895

description: Photograph of exterior of the residence of Professor Thaddeus(?) S.C. Lowe, Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, ca.1889-1895. The large three-story house has a five-story turret and wrap-around covered porch on the first floor. The manicured lawn is planted with trees and other plants at pleasing intervals. A low stone retaining wall raises the level of the yard beyond the driveway. In the foreground is a masonry cornerstone(?) tower perhaps ten feet high.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9071
title: Interior of a beet sugar factory showing filter presses

description: Photograph of the interior of a sugar beet processing plant, Ventura County, showing beet sugar filter presses where the saccharin syrup is freed of all foreign matter. Five workers stand near 8 large horizontal screw presses. Pipes run overhead and feed into large vats at left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9068
title: Interior of a beet sugar factory showing carbonators

description: Photograph of the inside of a sugar beet processing plant showing 2 large beet sugar carbonators. Pressure guages stick out of the top of each one. A bay of control wheels is visible on a large pipe at right. Other pipes run overhead.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m10178
title: California State Exposition Building, Exposition Park, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of the California State Exposition Building (later the Space Museum of the California Museum of Science and Industry), Exposition Park, Los Angeles, [s.d.]. Two large trees stand in the grassy lawn in the foreground. The style of the long 1-story building is remniscent of Greek revival.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m15457
title: Automobile driving north on the Ocean Road from Santa Monica, ca.1910

description: Photograph of a lone automobile driving north on the unpaved Ocean Road from Santa Monica, ca.1910. The automobile can be seen at center along the dirt road. Two large tire tracks can be seen imprinted in the dirt. Jagged rocks sit on the small, sandy beach at right. The Pacific coastline is further at right. Grassy bluffs rise at left. Looking south.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8922
title: Ruin of the Estudillo Adobe, San Diego, 1897

description: Photograph of the ruin of the Estudillo adobe, "Ramona's wedding place", Old Town, San Diego, showing the patio area, 1897. The remnant of a sign painted on one wall, "Houses for rent, Lots for rent", is still visible. A wooden building is visible in the background at extreme right. Ramona was made famous in the novel of the same name by Helen Hunt Jackson.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1597
title: William Garland residence at Eighth Street and Westlake Avenue, ca.1880-1910

description: Photograph of the William Garland residence at Eighth Street and Westlake Avenue, ca.1880-1910. The ornate two-story house has a round tower at left and a steep gable at left. Three chimneys are visible above the roof. A balcony runs around most of the front of the house over a porch supported with arches. Trees and plants cluster in the grassy lawn behind a low stone wall. A broad walk with two landings lead up to the front. A stone at the curb line reads "Garland".; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9066
title: Interior of a beet sugar factory showing centrifuges

description: Photograph of beet sugar centrifuges "throwing out syrup" (separating sugar from syrup), inside a sugar beet processing plant, ca. 1900. Four large centrifuges are lined up on a raise wooden platform. Buckets and wooden paddles sit on stools in front. Overhead runs a long cast iron vat labelled "From American Tool Machine Co., Boston, Mass."
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1596
title: John Parkinson residence, St. Paul Street & 6th Street, ca.1910

description: Photograph of John Parkinson residence, St. Paul Street & 6th Street, ca.1910. The rectangular house with flat roof and jutting eaves sits atop a rise. A long set of stairs lead up to the house from the sidewalk. A garage or carriage house sits to the left. Trees run across the the top of the rise adjacent to the 2-story house. A gated drive curves up the rise between the garage and the stairs.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12359
title: Taft oil well blow-out in Kern County, ca. 1920

description: Photograph of a Taft oil well blow-out in Kern County, ca. 1920. The well was owned by Standard Oil (10-36. 31-23). The blow-out consisted of 20,000 barrels of oil. At least 6 other derricks are visible in the hilly distance behind the oil gushing upward out of the derrick. Pipes lay in a pile at left adjacent to one of the oil rig shacks.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m15458
title: The Sierra Madre Canyon and Mountains, ca.1895

description: Photograph of the Sierra Madre Canyon and Mountains, ca.1895. Three people (1 woman, 2 men) cross a narrow rocky creek as it winds down through the forested slope.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7972
title: Chinese doctor with long finger nails (an aristocrat), ca.1920

description: Photograph of a Chinese doctor with extremely long fingernails on his left hand sitting next to a table. He is wearing a black skull cap, a skirt and a dark smock. Taken in a studio. "A Chinese Hand much Admired" -- label. Compares to CHS-135.