cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6081
title: Exterior of the First Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, ca.1875

description: Photograph of the exterior of the First Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, ca.1875. The modest, one-story building, shrouded by two trees, sports a narrow steeple, three visible stained-glass windows, and bits of gingerbread trim. A hedgerow marks the lawn in front. Both another building and third tree are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1126
title: Exterior of Ferndale (Weingarth?) Gallery, Pasadena County's first photographic gallery, ca.1882

description: Photograph of the exterior of Ferndale (Weingarth?) Gallery, Pasadena County's first photographic gallery, ca.1882. Four women stand outside of the one-story building's open door, next to which several framed photographs are hung. A sign posted above reads "Ferndale Gallery". Low-growing saplings surround the building.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14548
title: Mounds of the fortifications of Marmila, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of the mounds of the fortifications of Marmila, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. Eight people are standing or sitting on the rocky mounds. At center, a man and woman can be seen wearing loose, lightly-colored clothing and straw hats. People wearing similar clothing can be seen in the background at right. In the background at left, two men wearing suits and hats can be seen sitting on large boulders. Another man in similar dress can be seen standing on a mound at right. He holds a bundle in his left hand and a box in his right hand.  In the background are the town and the mountains.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m11828
title: Four horse hack outside of the Los Angeles House hotel in Pasadena, at the disposal of United States President Benjamin Harrison, 1891

description: Photograph of a four horse hack outside of the Los Angeles House hotel in Pasadena, at the disposal of United States President Benjamin Harrison, 1891. Four horses, two black and two white, are hitched to a covered carriage decorated with leaves and flowers that stands in front of the Los Angeles House. The coachmen attends the horses' reigns. Behind, on the porch of the L.A. house, above which American flags and star-spangled ribbon are hung, spectators gather, looking out. A streetlamp and the rear of another carriage are visible to the extreme left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6181
title: Colorado Boulevard (or Street?) in Pasadena looking east, where the Santa Fe Railroad crosses, 1878

description: Photograph of Colorado Boulevard (or Street?) in Pasadena looking east, where the Santa Fe Railroad crosses, 1878. Crowds of people in horse-drawn carriages or on foot travel the busy road, which culminates in a hill in the photo's background. A sign that reads "City Meat Market." extends in from the left. A testimony on the back of the photoprint reads " Roy S. Kellog, Pres. of the Pasadena Historical Society, told my daughter...that he recalled this event personally and that this picture shows the Parade of the Grand Army of the Republic...in 1886."
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17831
title: Portrait of Eulalia Arrita de Perez, Pasadena, [s.d]

description: Photographic portrait of Eulalia Arrita de Perez, Pasadena, [s.d]. The portrait shows the bust of an elderly woman in a button-down top, over which a shawl is draped. Her hair is combed back and falls behind her ears. The crenulations in her lips suggest that she is missing teeth. Her eyes are averted.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6154
title: San Gabriel Country Club Clubhouse, ca.1904

description: Photograph of the San Gabriel Country Club Clubhouse, ca.1904. A group of eight players stand outside and to the right of the clubhouse, while two others stand on its porch. Bicycles are leaned against the side, next to which a group of children stands. Trees stand in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12332
title: Steam engine trailing its coal car on the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Rail Road, 1890

description: Photograph of a steam engine trailing its coal car on the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Rail Road, 1890. Three men adorn the locomotive, which is expelling steam at the right of the photo. The engineer peers out the window of his cabin with two men in suits behind him, one on the engine and one on the ground. The side of the coal car reads "L.A. & S.G. V. R. R.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5997
title: Panoramic view of Pasadena from Martin (Ward) Block, on Fair Oaks Avenue and Colorado Street, 1880

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Pasadena from Martin (Ward) Block, on Fair Oaks Avenue and Colorado Street, 1880. Houses with the beginnings of groves next to them can be seen stretching to the mountains, which appear in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13734
title: Portrait of Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe of Mount Lowe, Pasadena, [s.d.].

description: Photographic portrait of Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe of Mount Lowe, Pasadena, [s.d.]. The Professor's bust, shown in three-quarters profile, sports a tuxedo with a light shirt and light bowtie. The man is balding, with close-cut hair to either side of his bare forehead, and a large moustache with a small beard underneath. He is looking to the right. The portrait is framed in an oval.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1120
title: Barney Williams' store in Pasadena on the corner of Colorado Street and Fair Oaks Avenue, ca.1887

description: Photograph of Barney Williams' store in Pasadena on the corner of Colorado Street and Fair Oaks Avenue, ca.1887. A group of people stand on the porch of the two-story building while a horse-drawn carriage drives by. The building sports a clapboard veneer along with a balcony and a box window on its second floor. Several people attend a small horse in the background at right. Another building is visible in front of the mountains in the left background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1133
title: Sunny Slope Winery in Pasadena, Los Angeles, ca.1899

description: Photograph of the Sunny Slope Winery in Pasadena, Los Angeles, ca.1899. A man stands waist-deep in the vine fields with the winery behind him, whose side reads "Sunny Slope". Trees are visible to the left of the building in front of the mountains in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6091
title: Home of Colonel Banbury on Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena, March, 1894

description: Photograph of the home of Colonel Banbury on Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena, March, 1894. Several men and women stand on the porch of the small house with clapboard veneer, obscured by tree and shrub growth. The edge of another house is visible in the background at right. The house, finished in 1874, was the first house under construction in the Indiana colony in Pasadena of which Col. Banbury was a member. He had twin daughters, Jessie and Jennie, who were very popular. Each loved to play the piano, so the Colonel traded five acres of land located in the southeast corner of Colorado Street and Marengo, for a piano now known as the million dollar piano and owned by the Pasadena Historical Society. The Colonel's house would have been finished first had he not taken out time to help Mr. A.O. Bristol.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14547
title: Patrons outside the Theater of Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of patrons outside the Theater of Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. A couple of dozen people are standing in the cobbled street and on the sidewalk in front of the entrance to the two-story theater which has a balcony overlooking the street. Legible signs include: "Teatro Iturbide, [...] 1,300 Figuras, cien actos distintos, Exhibicion de moda, La Gallina Ciega! El man[...] de cuerdos, es miniatura, D. Juan tenorio, [...], 16 de Septiembre, [...], Excelsior!"...
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6012
title: Panorama of Flintridge City looking west, 1905

description: Photograph in panorama of Flintridge City looking west, 1905. A long, unpaved road makes its way down through flatland to the edge of the city in the distance, where small agricultural fields and houses can be seen. Mountains are evident in the background at right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5993
title: Panoramic view of Pasadena looking north, ca.1890

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Pasadena looking north, ca.1890. Mountains loom in the background over the closely-situated houses and buildings of the city whose crop rows are interspersed between them. The bell tower of the school at Colorado Street and Fair Oaks Avenue is visible at center about halfway from the bottom of the frame.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6142
title: Hermosa Vista Hotel on Columbia Hill in Pasadena, ca.1885

description: Photograph of the Hermosa Vista Hotel on Columbia Hill in Pasadena, ca.1885. Men an women sit and stand on the wraparound porch of the two-story hotel which sports shuttered windows, a balcony, and a clapboard veneer. Two men on horses stand in front to the left and at center, and another, tending a wagon hitched to two horses, stands at right. Steamer trunks are visible on the porch at right, near which a woman stands.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13487
title: Portrait of Pasadena's famous Banbury twins, Jessie and Jennie, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Pasadena's famous Banbury twins, Jessie and Jennie, [s.d.]. Both women can be seen clothed in decorative hats and dresses with plaid trim, and stand looking straight ahead. The sister on the left holds what appears to be a letter, while the woman at right can be seen holding a purse. The sister at right also wears a brooch and earrings, both of which her sibling lacks. The twins were the daughters of Colonel Banbury, one of the premier members of the Indiana colony in Pasadena. They were popular entertainers of the 1880's.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6192
title: Colorado Boulevard looking east from a hill where the Elk Club stands out of frame, Pasadena, ca.1885

description: Photograph of Colorado Boulevard looking east from a hill where the Elk Club stands out of frame, Pasadena, ca.1885. The western end of Colorado street stretches from a point in the foreground where a bench can be seen set underneath an orchard tree at right. Further down the road in the distance, The Los Angeles House Hotel and Williams' Store can be seen to the left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5989
title: Panoramic view of the orange groves of the first Pasadena settlers, looking west, ca.1874

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of the orange groves of the first Pasadena settlers, looking west, ca.1874. Houses and stores are clustered around Colorado Boulevard and Fair Oaks Avenue in the distance at right. Mountains are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5996
title: Panoramic view of early Pasadena looking northeast from the Arroyo Seco, 1876

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of early Pasadena looking northeast from the Arroyo Seco, 1876. Young orchards full of rows of underdeveloped trees dot the hilly landscape. Bushed and other scrub vegetation grow as well. No houses are immediately evident. Mountains stand in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6083
title: The first Presbyterian (Methodist?) Church in Pasadena, 1890

description: Photograph of the first Presbyterian (Methodist?) Church in Pasadena, 1890. The church, standing at left, boasts towering spires and lavish, gothic architecture, with small trees occupying the surrounding property. A streetcar is being pulled by two horses in the foreground. Houses are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5990
title: Panoramic view of Pasadena looking north from Raymond Hill, ca.1889

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Pasadena looking north from Raymond Hill, ca.1889. Sparse houses are separated by burgeoning agricultural fields. A house with a windmill-style weathervein stands at center. Mountains are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14549
title: Convent of Capuchinas, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of the Convent of Capuchinas, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. Trees line the cobbled street along the stone building. Few people are on the street. There is a horse-drawn (or mule-drawn) wagon in the foreground. Also in the foreground (at right) is a small balcony surrounded by iron railings. Maximillian was imprisoned here.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8719
title: Mission bells at Old Town, San Diego, 1887

description: Mission bells at Old Town, San Diego. The bells that chimed for Ramona's wedding, 1887. The two bells are hung from a wooden beam structure separate from the wooden slat building behind them. A man is standing in the foreground. In the background is a wood rail fence, a low hill and an adobe building.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5847
title: Long Beach and the Long Beach Bath House from the pier, ca.1910

description: Photograph of Long Beach and the Long Beach Bath House from the pier, ca.1910. The two-story Romanesque architecture of the Bath House is pictured at right with its numerous columns, fronted by a narrow boardwalk. Beachgoers line the sand on the shore at left. Pedestrians walk the boardwalk. Guests are gathered on the balcony of the Bath House's second floor.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5892
title: Flower garden at the Los Cerritos Ranch in Long Beach, ca.1870

description: Photograph of the flower garden at the Los Cerritos Ranch in Long Beach, ca.1870. The south side of the one-story residence is shown, obscured behind the plentiful foliage in the foreground, through which a man, woman and child walk. The ranch itself was built by Juan Temple in 1884.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13462
title: Portrait of Mrs. Jotham Bixby, Long Beach, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Mrs. Jotham Bixby, Long Beach, [s.d.]. The bust of Mrs. Bixby is framed by an oval. She wears a chain brooch, earrings, choker, and a dress with lace trim. Her face, in three-quarters profile, seems smooth and relatively young. Her hair is parted down the center and pulled back into a loose, decorative braid. The stamp at the right of the photo reads "[...] Rolofson, S.F." Her husband, Jotham Bixby was the founding president of the Bixby Land Company which was valued at $775,000--a considerable sum at the time, although the company by that time had also incurred $426,000 against it. Jotham remained president until the died in 1917. Photoprint reads: "Margaret Hathaway".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17782
title: Portrait of Senora Rafaela Cota Temple, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Senora Rafaela Cota Temple, [s.d.].  She can be seen in bust turned to the left in profile. She can be seen wearing a darkly-colored dress with a crisscross pattern and macramé decoration at the shoulders. She wears her hair parted in the center and pulled back behind her neck. Her face is pudgy and relatively unwrinkled. She was the wife of Don Juan Temple.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13461
title: Portrait of Jotham Bixby, President of the Bixby Land Company, Long Beach, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Jotham Bixby, President of the Bixby Land Company, Long Beach, [s.d.]. The bust of Bixby, framed by an oval, is pictured here in a dark, unbuttoned jacket, vest and crooked bowtie. He is facing left. Bixby has parted his hair to the side, and sports a short beard that extends all the way around his jawline. The stamp at the right corner of the photo reads "[...] Rolofson, S.F."
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13834
title: Portrait of Judge Robert Maclay Widney, Long Beach, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Judge Robert Maclay Widney, Long Beach, [s.d.]. The bust of Judge Widney can be seen facing right. He is visible wearing a dark suit and tie. Widney's hair, which he has combed back, is thinning, and he sports a medium-length beard and no moustache. He is pictured in three-quarters profile. "R.M. Widney" is written in cursive at the bottom of the photo. Widney was one of two brothers important to the establishment of the University of Southern California. He was a real-estate salesman before he became a judge, and later championed the introduction of streetcars, electric lights, and other civic improvements.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17783
title: Portrait of Thomas Flint, Long Beach, California, ca.1850-1930

description: Photograph of a portrait of Thomas Flint of Long Beach, California, ca.1850-1930. He has short dark hair parted on his left, combed back and to the right. His dark beard is short and is not accompanied by a moustache or side-burns. Visible from the chest up, he is wearing a bow tie, high collar, vest and jacket. The portrait is in a decorative oval cut-out.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13688
title: Portrait of Miss Harnett, a historian, Long Beach, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Miss Harnett, a historian, Long Beach, [s.d.]. The bust of Miss Harnett sports a button-decorated top with epaulets, from which the collar of a finely-dotted turtleneck shirt extends. Ms. Harnett wears a brooch on the turtleneck and a necklace around her neck. Her face seems relatively young to middle-aged, and is augmented by glasses. Her hair is up, but promises to be roughly shoulder-length.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13172
title: Students and teachers in front of the first school in Long Beach, ca.1882-1884

description: Photograph of the first school in Long Beach, California, ca.1882-1884. Nine students and their schoolmistress stand in front of a partially open tent, posing for the camera. One child, at left, stands on a chair. Lines at the top of the image suggest that editing was done due to underexposure of the building.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17784
title: Portrait of Don Juan Temple, an early owner of the Ranch Los Cerritos in Long Beach, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Don Juan Temple, an early owner of the Ranch Los Cerritos in Long Beach, [s.d.]. The bust of Temple, pictured facing forward, is dressed in a dark suit and bowtie. He is looking up slightly and has a stern expression on his face. Temple's hair is cropped closely to his head and leads down to a round face with prominent jowls.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14550
title: Group of people at door to Convent of Capuchinas, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a group of about 21 people at the sides of the door (the "Maximillian door") to the Convent of Capuchinas, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1900. Two large leafy trees shade the group. This is the door from which Maximillian, who was imprisoned at the convent, emerged immediately prior to being executed by shooting.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9607
title: Sheep dipping at Bixby Ranch in Long Beach, California, ca.1901

description: Photograph of sheep dipping at Bixby Ranch in Long Beach, California, ca.1901. Five men stand to the left of the photograph behind a wooden crate. One sits on a wooden barrel. A fifth man, at right, looks over the wall of a pen at the flock of sheep inside. The man pictured at center with the bowler hat and vest has been identified as Jotham Bixby.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6442
title: Security Bank building in Long Beach, California at night, ca.1927

description: Photograph of the Security Bank building in Long Beach, California at night, ca.1927. Lights from the widows and the roof of the eleven-story brick building. A tower of scaffolding stands attached to it at right. The bottom of the building seems to be illuminated by spotlights. The streaks made by car headlights are visible on the street below. At left, the edge of another building can be seen.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5896
title: The first house in Long Beach, ca.1880

description: Photograph of the first house in Long Beach, ca.1880. The back of the shack, made almost entirely of planks, can be seen along with the back yard in which a sofa sits underneath a climbing rosebush. Laundry has been hung out to dry at left. A picket fence extends from the house out of the frame at right, in front of which debris is evident. Later, this would become the sight of the Security Bank Building.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5801
title: Southern Pacific Railroad Depot and Ocean View Hotel at Long Beach, California, ca.1890

description: Photograph of the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot and Ocean View Hotel at Long Beach, California, ca.1890. Several people stand along the tracks to either side, watching the train come in. The depot behind them sports two main stories, a balcony, and a tower that extends two more, open at the top. Another building is visible in the right background. Telephone poles are evident. The caption below the photo reads "Southern Pacific at Long Beach--About 1890". Alternative location: Union Pacific Train on Ocean Front (L.A. Terminal).
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5882
title: Methodist Episcopal Chautaugua Tabernacle Church in Long Beach, ca.1910

description: Photograph of the Methodist Episcopal Chautaugua Tabernacle Church in Long Beach, ca.1910. The plank face of the building is partially obscured by trees at right, under which a hitching post for horses can be seen. A tall, sloped roof is partially visible from behind the foliage. On the side of the building a placard is secured, whose only legible word reads "Service".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5859
title: A lot full of carriages and their horses in Long Beach, California, ca.1905

description: Photograph of a lot full of carriages and their horses in Long Beach, California, ca.1905. Horse-drawn carriages and their horses dominate the scene north of the pier, unattended by their drivers. Beyond them, in the distance and to the right, the silhouettes of beachgoers can be seen on the sand. Picture file card reads "Weekend at the beach--'free parking'".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5913
title: Pine Avenue from Ocean Avenue, Long Beach, California, ca.1900

description: Photograph of Pine Avenue from Ocean Avenue, Long Beach, California, ca.1900. The wide, unpaved street is lined on either side by one- and two-story storefronts. A horse and carriage are parked in the distance along the left sidewalk, behind which a sign reads "Excelsior Bakery".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5834
title: Crowds of people at the opening of a new pier in Long Beach, November 12, 1904

description: Photograph of crowds of people at the opening of a new pier in Long Beach, November 12, 1904. People stand shoulder to shoulder on the roof of a building at left, which takes up roughly three-quarters of the image. They are mostly police officers and other uniformed men, although civilians are also in attendance. To the right, beyond the edge of the roof, still more crowds can be seen on the ground below. American flags are displayed in various places throughout. What appear to be tenement buildings are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5830
title: Pleasure Worthan Pavillion in Long Beach, ca.1895

description: Photograph of the Pleasure Worthan Pavillion in Long Beach, ca.1895. The pier, on which roughly a dozen people are strolling, stretches from out of the frame at left towards the shore. A second pier, on which crowds of people can be seen gathering in the distance, extends from it to the right. The beach can be seen in the background to the left, as well as still more groups of people in front of the buildings of Long Beach on the horizon. Water extends underneath the pier in the rest of the photo.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5848
title: The beach at Long Beach looking out from the pier, California, 1890

description: Photograph of the beach at Long Beach looking out from the pier, California, 1890. A crowd of people sit and stand closely packed on the tarp-covered third tier of the pier at right, while two others stand on the left corner of the second tier. Below, the beach is visible, with beachgoers stretch along the sand, many sporting parasols. A small shack from which a tall mast-like pole extends is partially visible in the extreme center foreground. Houses from the city can be seen on the hill in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14552
title: Monument at place of execution of Maximillian, Miramon and Mejia, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the monument at place of execution of Maximillian, Miramon and Mejia (two of Maximillian's aides), Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1900. Eleven people and a sheep are at the three stone markers. A horse-drawn wagon is visible at the bottom of the rise at the top of which is the monument. In the background the town is visible. Maximillian ruled with Carlotta at Curenavaca in the 19th century.