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DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12355
title: Drawing by Henry Chapman Ford showing an external view of the Mission San Fernando Rey de España, ca.1883

description: Photograph of a drawing by Henry Chapman Ford showing an external view of the Mission San Fernando Rey de España, ca.1883. The mission buildings are shown in disrepair arranged in a line across the horizon. The tallest adobe stands to the left, two-stories high. A progression of smaller buildings link it with the longest building which ends the line at t he far right, also an adobe and two-stories high. A well is pictured in the right foreground while mountains are visible in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12433
title: Drawing by Henry Chapman Ford depicting and exterior view of the Mission San Fernando Rey de España's church, ca.1891

description: Photograph of a drawing by Henry Chapman Ford depicting and exterior view of the Mission San Fernando Rey de España's church, ca.1891. The two-story adobe stands at center with a multi-leveled roof covered in terracotta tiles, and featuring an arched, brick-decorated doorway. A cross extends from the top of the main roof. A smaller shack and the remains of a wall are pictured to the left along with some palm trees, while a portico extends out from the right side of the church. Mountains are visible in the left hand background. Chapman's signature is pictured underneath the image.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12583
title: Sketch by Henry Chapman Ford depicting an exterior view of the Pala Mission in San Diego County, July 4, 1880

description: Photograph of a sketch by Henry Chapman Ford depicting and exterior view of the Pala Mission in San Diego County, July 4, 1880. A woman and child's silhouettes can be seen in front of the bell tower, which stands in the courtyard, apart from the main buildings, which are pictured to the right, one having lost its roof. A tent and a shack are visible in the left distance, along with a covered wagon and some livestock. Mountains can be seen in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17955
title: Sketch by Henry Chapman Ford depicting the exterior of the Mission Santa Margarita Asistencia, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a sketch by Henry Chapman Ford depicting the exterior of the Mission Santa Margarita Asistencia, [s.d.]. A long adobe building with multiple doors is depicted standing to the right of partially visible mountains. The drawing appears to indicate that the roof of the building is collapsing, terracotta tiles still intact only on the right side. The door to the far left is arched, while the others are rectangular.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12590
title: Sketch by Henry Chapman Ford depicting the exterior of the Mission Santa Margarita Asistencia, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a sketch by Henry Chapman Ford depicting the exterior of the Mission Santa Margarita Asistencia, ca.1900. Two buildings stand at the center of the frame; to the left, a near-cubic adobe with a thatched roof is pictured with trees to its own left, a long, roofless adobe extend to its right. Mountains are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14621
title: General view of Mission Asistencia of San Antonio at Pala, California, showing the main front and bell tower, ca.1903

description: Photograph of a general view of Mission Asistencia of San Antonio at Pala showing the main front and the bell tower, ca.1903. The tile roof has fallen in at left. The stucco is completely gone from the adobe walls. Utility lines stretch across the top of the image. Mountains are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1703
title: Drawing depicting William Wolfskill's Pasadena orange and lemon grove and residence, between Alameda and San Pedro Streets, Los Angeles, ca.1882

description: Photograph of a drawing depicting William Wolfskill's Pasadena orange and lemon grove and residence, between Alameda and San Pedro Streets, Los Angeles, ca.1882. The lithograph shows a railroad depot at bottom, from which a train is departing. Behind this, a horse-drawn wagon has parked in order to load on crates of fruit taken from the orchard of trees that fills the rest of the image. A second horse-drawn wagon makes its way along a set of railroad tracks in the very front.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13817
title: Painted portrait by Meissoneir of Leland Stanford, former California Governor, ca.1890

description: Photograph of a painted portrait by Meissoneir of Leland Stanford, former California Governor, ca.1890. Governor Stanford, who later founded Stanford University after the death of his son, is pictured here dressed in a suit and vest, seated in his study. He looks directly at the viewer, his beard white and his hair salt-and-pepper. He wears a ring on his left pinky finger and his legs are crossed. Papers and books clutter the desks and tables behind him. A can leans by his side against the desk. The Meissonier whose signature appears to the bottom right is likely the French painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, who lived from 1815 to 1891. Photoprint reads "The man who backed the first experiments in motion pictures. Palo Alto Cal. A painting of the late Leland Stanford, California capitalist and public benefactor, who backed the early experiments of Edward Muybridge from 1872 to 1878 in the making of motion pictures. Muybridge worked out a series of 28 cameras which clicked successively and made the first motion pictures of a horse trotting, walking, and running".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13759
title: Portrait of Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer of early action photography, 1872-1878

description: Photographic portrait of Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer of early action photography, 1872-1878. The portrait, taken fifteen years after Muybridge had successfully taken the famous photographic action series of Leland Stanford's horse, depicts the artist seated in a chair with his hands folded in his lap. He wears a suit and gazes to the left. His long white hair and beard are in disarray, his intense eyes set deep into his head and veiled in shadow. He tilts his head to the side, making him look partially infirm or deranged. A note on the picture file card reads: "(Griffin?)".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m10801
title: Photographic apparatus constructed by experimental photographer Eadwaerd Muybridge, Palo Alto, ca.1872-1878

description: Photograph of the apparatus constructed by experimental photographer Eadwaerd Muybridge in order to capture former California Governor Leland Stanford's horse while in motion, Palo Alto, ca.1872-1878. Two men at left attend to a track situated next to a long wall, while others attend to subsequent tracks and a shed inscribed with the numbers 1 through 24 to the right. A box supported by carpenter's benches stands in the right foreground. Trees are visible in the background.; "The components required during the process included twelve cameras, equipped with 'fast' stereo lenses and an electrically-controlled mechanism to operate the cameras' special shutters. Wires laid underground along the track at 21-inch intervals released the shutter of each camera as the wheels of the sulky made contact. The twelve pictures -- taken in about half a second -- were the result of Muybridge's long work designing and assembling the equipment used (in conjunction with a group of scientists & engineers) and formulating the vital chemical recipe to develop clear photographs of fast movement." -- from the California Museum of Photography homepage, http://photo.ucr.edu/photographers/muybridge/default.html.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m10800
title: Camera machine used by Eadweard Muybridge during his experiments in action photography, ca.1875

description: Photograph of the camera machine used by Eadweard Muybridge during his experiments in action photography, ca.1875. A large shed is pictured at center, into which a long opening has been made. Twenty-four cameras are visible arranged inside, numbered above on the building from right to left. An apparatus of wire, track and posts is visible on the ground in front of them.; Picture File Card quotes from Beumont Newhall's History of Photography: "Strings attached to electric switches were stretched across the track--the horse, rushing past, breasted the strings and broke them, one after the other--the shutter released by an electro-magnetic control, and a series of images made.", and "Drawings from Muybridges photos were pasted on strips and viewed in a mechanism known as a Zoetrope, a precursor of motion pictures. It was a topless drum which flipped on it[s] side, mounted on a spindle so that it could be twirled. Drawings showing successive phases of action placed inside the drum, and viewed through the slits were seen one after the other, so quickly that the images merged in the mind to produce the illusion of motion. In 1880, using a similar technique with a device he [called] the Zoopraxiscope, Muybridge projected his pictures on a screen at the Cal. School of Fine Arts, San Francisco and produced the first motion pictures.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13715
title: Portrait of Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson, author of Ramona, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson, author of "Ramona", [s.d.]. Mrs. Jackson is pictured standing, wearing an elaborate dress with a huge bustle, made of what appears to be silk or satin. Her hands are folded across her waist while she looks to the right. She appears to be in her middle-age and wears the large locks of her curly hair pulled back from her face. She can be seen smiling, while a chair supports her dress to the right. Picture file card reads: "An American novelist, poet, and general writer, born at Amherst, mass. October 18, 1831; died at San Francisco, CA, August 12, 1885. She was the daughter of Professor Fiske, of Amherst. He first husband, Capt. E.B. Hunt, died in 1863. In 1870, she published a volume entitled "Verses". Her first prose volume, "Bits of Travel" (1872), was followed by "Bits of Talk About Home Matters" (1873), and "Bits of Travel at Home" (1878). In 1875 she married Mr. W.S. Jackson, of Colorado Springs. Here, she published "A Century of Dishonor", relating to the dealings of the U.S. Government with the Indians. This led to her appointment in 1883 as a special commissioner to examine into the condition and needs of the Mission Indians. After visiting the different tribes, she wrote "Ramona"(1884), a novel relating to the Mission Indians. Mrs. Jackson had previously written two novels in the "no Name" seires: "Mercy Philbric's Chioce" ["Choice"?] (1876) and "Hetty's Strange History"(1877). Besides these works, she published "The Story of Boon", a poem (1879), the training of children(1882), and several books for young people: "Nellie's Silver Mine" (1878), "Mammy Tittleback and her Family" (1881), and "The Hunter Cats of Connorloa" (1884). Since her death have appeared "Glimpses of Three Coasts", "Sonnets and Lyrics", "Zeph", a novel (1886), and "Between Whiles" (1887)".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4457
title: View of San Pedro Harbor, showing Timm's Landing and Dead Man's Island, ca.1873

description: Photograph of a view of San Pedro Harbor, showing Timm's Landing and Dead Man's Island, ca.1873. Both a picket and a post-and-rail fence descend from the hill in the right foreground, surrounding a partially visible one-story building in the harbor. Farther back into the image, a collection of craftsman-style buildings are shown, with Dead Man's Island pictured at the center of the water in the background. Picture file card reads: "Warehouse where first schoolhouse was started by Mrs. Alonzo Wheeler, 188[?]-1882." As well as "Watkins photo.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4391
title: Fort Moore Hill High School (Pound Cake Hill, Signal Hill) being moved across Temple Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, 1886

description: Photograph of the Fort Moore Hill High School (Pound Cake Hill, Signal Hill) being moved across Temple Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, 1886. The two-story schoolhouse, build in 1871, is pictured at center elevated by wood scaffolding next to its abandoned hill. A two-story Victorian-style building stands at half its height to the left, surrounded by a wrought-iron fence.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4410
title: Fort Moore Hill High School (Pound Cake Hill, Signal Hill) being moved across Temple Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, 1886

description: Photograph of the Fort Moore Hill High School (Pound Cake Hill, Signal Hill) being moved across Temple Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, 1886. The two-story schoolhouse, built in 1871, is pictured at center supported on a network of wood scaffolding. A tree stands in front of it to the left, while workers pose both above on the scaffolding and below it. A horse-drawn carriage makes its way past to the left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4381
title: Los Angeles' first high school on Fort Moore Hill (Pound Cake Hill, Signal Hill), looking south from Temple Street and Broadway, ca.1875

description: Photograph of Los Angeles' first high school on Fort Moore Hill (Pound Cake Hill, Signal Hill), looking south from Temple Street and Broadway, ca.1875. The two-story school is pictured at center, behind several clusters of trees. It's clock tower extends from its roof and appears to have no hour or minute hand. The city is visible below the hill in the distance, along with mountains, the bell tower of St. Vibiana Cathedral at 2nd Street and Main Street visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14622
title: General view of Mission Asistencia of San Antonio at Pala, California, showing the chapel and bell tower from the north, ca.1903

description: Photograph of a general view of Mission Asistencia of San Antonio at Pala showing the chapel and the bell tower from the north, ca.1903. Three adobe columns in front of the chapel have almost complete eroded away. The stucco is almost completely gone from the adobe walls. A utility pole is visible at right. Mountains are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2530
title: Birdseye view of Los Angeles, looking from the Crocker Mansion on the south-east corner of Third Street and Olive Street at Bunker Hill, ca.1888

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles, looking from the Crocker Mansion on Third Street and Grand Street at Bunker Hill, ca.1888. A corner made by two brick walls is visible in the extreme foreground at right, separated from the rest of the city by a patch of trees, beyond which the spires of two churches -- First Congregational Church (second location, built in 1883) to the immediate right and the First Presbyterian Church (1882-1897) in the distance to the left -- can be seen among the flat-roofed industrial buildings of the commercial district. Other visible buildings include: Temples Market House and Theater, and the First County Court House (1859-1891); Hotel Nadeau (1882-1931); Peoples Store, on Spring Street near Court Street; Millar Building (built in 1886, later, it became the Roanoke Building); St Vibiana Cathedral (built in 1871-76). A sign on one reads "People's Store". Picture file card reads: "Tabor photo.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17956
title: Birdseye view of Los Angeles, looking north-east from the Crocker Mansion on Third Street and Olive Avenue, ca.1890

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles, looking north-east from the Crocker Mansion on Third Street and Olive Avenue, ca.1890. The brick foundation, porch and balcony of the Crocker Mansion are partially visible on the crest of a hill to the left, with a view of the city extending below. The photograph appears to be taken to the south of the house, angled to the northeast to include the south face. What appears to be the brick side of the Millar Block (later, the Roanoke Building) on Broadway, just north of Second Street.  Across Broadway, to the east, the spire of the First Presbyterian Church, on the south-east corner of Broadway and Second Street can be seen. Just above the rightmost portion of the Crocker balcony, the Phillips Block (a one-time home of Hamburger's Store) is visible.  At the far right, the First Methodist Episcopal Church can be seen located on Broadway between Third and Forth Streets.; Originally, the image was captioned as "Birdseye view of Los Angeles, looking east from the Crocker Mansion on Third Street and Grand Avenue, ca.1890". Also, see CHS-399.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2557
title: Birdseye view of Los Angeles looking south from Hope Street and Sixteenth Street, ca.1890

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles looking south from Hope Street and Sixteenth Street, ca.1890. A patch of small, leafless trees fill the foreground, obscuring a small garage to the right, to the left of which is a large, white cottage. Further left, more two-story, cottage-style houses are visible on lots enclosed by post-and-rail fence with the city's residential area stretching out behind them, where the houses are packed more closely together. Mountains are faintly visible along the horizon.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m194
title: View of Figueroa Street looking northwest, Los Angeles, ca.1890

description: Photograph of a view of Figueroa Street looking northwest, Los Angeles, ca.1890. A two-story Victorian-style house is visible to the left, followed further to the right by a one-story clapboard-sided home with a porch, to the left of which a windmill is situated. Figueroa itself stands to the right, a wide, unpaved road in which streetcar rails can be seen. It is bordered by to its far right by picket fencing. In the distance, the city can be seen along with mountains beyond the tree line that stretches from left to right behind the two houses. A utility pole stands in the lower center of the frame.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m572
title: Exterior view of the Arizona(?) United States Army Headquarters Building on 6th Street at Hill Street,ca.1887

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Arizona(?) United States Army Headquarters Building on 6th Street at Hill Street, ca.1887. The tall, two-story mansion is enclosed by a post-and-rail fence. To the right of the main entrance, a tower extends from the main building, featuring arched and rosetta windows, as well as a flagpole which tops the structure. A cannon can be seen on the lawn to the right of an unhitched cart. A fire hydrant stands on the corner to the right where a row of trees can be seen extending into the distance. A small trees stands in the center of the sidewalk to the left. The street in front is unpaved. Picture file card reads "Also occupied by St. Vincent's College".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6533
title: Exterior view of the Purcell Adobe as seen from the rear at Main Street and Car Street, San Gabriel, 1889

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Purcell Adobe as seen from the rear at Main Street and Car Street, San Gabriel, 1889. A one-story home with a shingled roof is pictured, showing the patio extending into the back yard. To the left, an a-frame ladder is set beneath a tree. To the right, two children and a toddler stand next to a circle of raked leaves. The adobe was built by Esteban Gonzales, 1851.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1528
title: Exterior view of the Los Angeles and Independence Rail Road Terminal at Fifth Street and San Pedro Street, Santa Monica, 1888

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Los Angeles and Independence Rail Road Terminal at Fifth Street and San Pedro Street, Santa Monica, 1888. Two lavishly decorated brick towers extend from the main building to either side of its entrance. Molding surrounds each of the towers' tall, double-paned windows, with small balconies extending beneath the second-story of each. The surrounding area is unpaved with a slim patch of overgrown grass lining the front of the depot. Text written-in along the bottom of the image reads "Old Santa Monica Depot".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6449
title: Exterior view of the Willmore Hotel as shown from the ocean, Long Beach, ca.1887

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Willmore Hotel as shown from the ocean, Long Beach, ca.1887. The four-story Victorian complex features a clapboard veneer and three wraparound balconies. Its roof is multileveled and features a number of spires. People can be seen along the center staircase to the entrance and along the balconies, while a man and woman sit under umbrellas having what appears to be a picnic. More individuals play near a bench to the left. The hotel, built in 1887, was destroyed in a fire a year later in 1888.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6486
title: View of Redondo Beach looking towards the city from the pier, 1891

description: Photograph of a view of Redondo Beach looking towards the city from the pier, 1891. People stroll along the boards on the pier at left, to the side of which railcar tracks can be seen. What appear to be either lifeguard or diving platforms stand tall to either side of the pier. Pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage navigate the unpaved roads through the city in the distance. Several commercial shop fronts advertise themselves along the shore. A domed building is visible in the distance to the left. The ocean is visible to the right, along with the building for the Santa Fe Route of streetcars, one of which is pictured in front.; Legible signs include: "Field's Restaurant", "J. Murphy Saloon. / Wines and Liquors", "The Pavillion / Wines Liquors Cigars", "Ship Channelry / Groceries. Hardwares. Paints-Oils. / Gents Furnishing [...] / Bathing Suits. Boots and Shoes. Fishing Tackle.", and "Davis House".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6656
title: People at the shore on Santa Monica Beach, 1889

description: Photograph of people at the shore on Santa Monica Beach, 1889. Beach houses and vendor's tents stand along the back end of the beach while a crowd of people moves into the surf at left from the shore. Mountains and trees can be seen above the cliff side in the background. Written-in text on the bottom of the image reads "Surf Bathing at Santa Monica".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14623
title: General view of Mission Asistencia of San Antonio at Pala, California, from the rear, ca.1903

description: Photograph of a general view of Mission Asistencia of San Antonio at Pala from the rear, ca.1903. The adobe walls in the foreground have almost complete eroded away. The roof has collapsed into a mission building in the center distance. A utility pole is visible at left. Mountains are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7526
title: "The Old Quarter" in Monterey, 1884

description: Photograph of "The Old Quarter" in Monterey, 1884. A long two-story building that appears to be a small hotel is visible to the left, while a horse-drawn carriage makes its way along the unpaved road towards the camera at center. The paint is peeling off the building and it features a number of doors, each flanked by a window to either side. The beginning of a dilapidated picket fence is visible in the left foreground, while a second building is visible in the right distance.; "Served as barracks for the Mexican Army and also as a departmental capital in the 1940's. The last election for the departmental assembly under Mexican rule was held in the lower corner of this building May 26, 1846, shortly before the seizure of the Mexican State by the U.S."--A. Yorba.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3130
title: View of Hollywood looking north from La Brea Avenue, 1907

description: Photograph of a view of Hollywood looking north from La Brea Avenue, 1907. A residential area is shown, with two-story houses spaced widely apart by modest properties. A mountain ridge is visible in detail in the background, along the foot of which several more homes can be seen.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3113
title: Panoramic view of Hollywood, looking west from Laughlin Park, 1903

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Hollywood, looking west from Laughlin Park, 1903. A horse-drawn carriage makes its way up the hill to the right, with large expanses of orchards stretching out across the landscape behind it. Two small farm-cottages can be seen in the distance to the left. Mountains are visible along the horizon. Photonegative reads, "Hollywood from Laughlin Avenue", and the photonegative sleeve reads, "Hollywood in the early days".