cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14533
title: Vegetable market, Zacateca, Mexico, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a vegetable market, Zacateca, Mexico, ca.1900. A woman and three children are huddled around a blanket spread on the floor. Vegetables of at least five varieties are spread out on the blanket. Also at their feet are various containers (jug, baskets, bowl, sprinkling can). A purchase is being transacted by a man in a sombrero, blanket, and sandals. In the background is a pile of full burlap bags. They appear to be indoors. A window and iron rail divider is visible behind them.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m154
title: Broadway looking north from Tenth Street, 1890

description: Photograph of Broadway looking north from Tenth Street, 1890. At least two craftsman-style buildings with chimneys are visible in the background left of the street, partially obscured by trees and other vegetation. The street is unpaved and what appear to be several carriages or automobiles are moving along it too quickly to be photographed with clarity. A telephone pole is visible to the right, and what appears to be a pile of cut tree branches is in the lot next to the buildings.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m533
title: San Pedro palm being brought to Fifth Street and Central Avenue for depot, 1889

description: Photograph of a San Pedro palm being brought to Fifth Street and Central Avenue for depot, 1889. To the left seven men, some with tools, attend an approximately thirty-foot tall palm tree, its roots secured in a crate from which support wires extend to the top of the trunk. To their right is a group of onlookers comprised of eight men and one woman, who is standing on the porch of a building whose side reads, "Wolfskill Lots for sale / Branch Office Los Angeles Land Bureau. / Easton, Eldridge & Co. Geo. W. Frink, President / 20 W. First St." A picture of a flag underneath reads "Wolfskill / Tract / at Private Sale".  Other legible signs include one on the two-chimneyed building to the left and back of the palm which reads "John Weiland's Lager Beer".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17835
title: Spring Street north from Ninth Street during the La Fiesta Parade, ca.1906

description: Photograph of Spring Street north from Ninth Street during the La Fiesta Parade, ca.1906.  Four decorative horse-drawn carriages proceed down Spring towards the camera, with what appear to be dancers trailing them. The first carriage is led by two people on foot holding the reigns of the horses. What appear to be two sets of trolleycar tracks are visible embedded in the road. A crowd stands to either side of the street, and to the extreme right bleachers are partially visible, also filled with spectators. Buildings are only visible to the right of the street in the photograph, beginning with a small, one-story shop covered in signs and continuing down the street to a two-story building topped with a spire about halfway down. The buildings continue increasing in height and terminate with a building of at least five stories obscuring any building that might be seen behind it. Telephone poles are also visible along this side of the street. Photoprint identifies "Tom Wright, in front buggy".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m10514
title: Painting depicting the completion ceremony of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad at a point near Ogden, Utah, May 9, 1869

description: Photograph of a painting depicting the completion ceremony of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad at a point near Ogden, Utah, May 9, 1869. A massive group of men and women in what appears to be formal dress crowd around the small section of railroad track that is visible. Three railway workers kneel before driving the last spike. In the background a stopped locomotive engine is visible. A man stands to either side of its smokestack.; Caption beneath the photo reads "Photograph Courtesy of the Oregon Historical Society / From the well known painting by Thomas Hill / Driving the Last Spike on the Union and Central Pacific at a Point Near Ogden, Utah, May 9, '69", as well as "In the foreground, beginning from left and prominent in the picture, are the following, in the order named: Stephen T. Gage, A.P. Stanford, F.A. Tritle, Hon. John Conness, Jas. W. Hayes, Rev. Dr. Todd, John Corning, W.E. Brown, Thos. C. Durant. In the center of the picture, holding the hammer, is Leland Stanford; back of him C.P. Huntington; to his left, Oakes Ames, Judge Galwood, J.H. Strebridge, Sydney Dillon, General Dodge, Mark Hopkins, Judge E.B. Crocker, Charles Crocker, S.S. Montague, T.D. Judah, and Hon. A.A. Sargent."
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1514
title: Painting of San Pedro depicting Timm's Point, Terminal Island and Dead Man's Island, ca.1875

description: Photograph of a painting of San Pedro depicting Timm's Point, Terminal Island and Dead Man's Island, ca.1875. At center the inlet is shown with four sailboats of varying sizes spread from left to right across it with smaller, non-sail boats interspersed among them. In the foreground, three structures are visible: a two-story craftsman-style building at center, as well as both a small booth-sized shack (also to the center) and a larger, roofless shack to the right. Short picket fences line parts of the area of each structure and an unhitched wagon sits in an empty lot in the foreground near the smaller shack. In the background, Dead Man's Island can be seen along with a breakwater peppered by small one-story buildings.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12320
title: Two locomotives for the San Pedro and Los Angeles Railroad, 1872

description: Photograph of two locomotives for the San Pedro and Los Angeles Railroad, 1872. Both locomotive engines, which stand in front of their housing at the center of the photograph, are new at the time of photo. Four railway man stand at their rear while one has positioned himself at the front of the leading engine. Both engines sport fluted stacks, and cow catcher grills in front, as well as coal trains behind.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4849
title: Hilario Ybara residence on upper Main Street, Los Angeles, 1905

description: Photograph of the Hilario Ybara residence on upper Main Street, Los Angeles, 1905. In the foreground, three children stand on the sidewalk along a cobblestone street. The boy, to the left, is barefoot and dressed in overalls and a long-sleeved shirt. He stands apart from the two girls, both of which have shoes. The first is wearing a solid-colored dress while the second has a dress with striped hem and a striped collar. Both girls wear bows to the right side of their hair. The building behind them is a long, one-story strip of what appear to be apartments with identical doors and front steps, save for the double-door directly behind the children which appears to be made out of wood boards. A telephone pole is visible to the extreme right, in front of a sign that reads "Extra Pale Lager".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m633
title: Exterior view of the Jones residence at the northwest corner of Main and Fifth Streets looking north on Main, ca.1897

description: Photograph of the Jones residence at the northwest corner of Main and Fifth Streets looking north on Main, Los Angeles, ca.1897. The residence of John H. Jones is visible to the right, its architecture, which appears to be early Victorian with a clapboard veneer, is mostly obscured by the foliage of a large tree on the sidewalk. The property is surrounded by a short picket fence (possibly wrought-iron), approximately three feet in height, and the yard is filled with small topiary trees. What appears to be a telephone pole is visible in the left foreground. The sidewalk, lined by trees similar to the one blocking the view of the house, extends back and away from the camera at right. The street does not appear to be paved. The Rosslyn Hotel was eventually built on this site.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3386
title: East Hollywood taken from Mount Olive, ca.1895

description: Photograph of East Hollywood taken from Mount Olive, ca.1895. Two men in dark suits and bowler hats stand on the mountain, one of them pointing out at the nearly barren landscape towards what appears to be a church. Apart from this, only five other homesteads are visible. Of them, what appears to be a barn and a grain silo is visible at left. Mountains stretch across the photo behind the town. Picture file card reads: "Barnsdall Park" in parentheses, a park later located above Hollywood Boulevard and Vermont Avenue.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13993
title: City view from tower of Santa Rosa, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of city view from tower of Santa Rosa, in Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. The squat stone, brick and/or adobe structures spread out toward what appears to be a church in the middle of the image. The rooftops of flat city structures stretch out across the scene, and the outline of a distant mountainside is visible behind them.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12315
title: Cahuenga Valley Railroad which ran from Temple to Hoover Streets and on into Hollywood, 1895

description: Photograph of the Cahuenga Valley Railroad which ran from Temple Street to Hoover Street and on into Hollywood, 1895. A railroad conductor stands in his uniform next to a locamotive trailing its coal car and two passenger cars. The engine sports a straight smokestack and does not seem to have a cow catcher. The word "Cahuenga" can be seen on its side. Sparse trees are visible in the background. The engineer, with traditional checkered kerchief and hat, leans out of the engine's window.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3191
title: Cahuenga Valley Railroad that ran from Hollywood to Santa Monica, 1889

description: Photograph of the Cahuenga Valley Railroad that ran from Hollywood to Santa Monica, 1889. A young conductor stands in his uniform next to a locamotive trailing its coal car and a passenger car. The word "Cahuenga" is legible on its side. The engine sports a cow catcher and a straight stack, from which smoke and steam are billowing. The engineer stands at the back running board of the engine while a child in a dark coat and hat peers out the engine's window.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3196
title: The first train on the Cahuenga Valley Railroad to Hollywood, ca.1888

description: Photograph of the first train on the Cahuenga Valley Railroad to Hollywood, ca.1888. A small steam engine and one passenger car are pictured. Seven people are visible in the passenger car, one in the engineer's quarters and three on the running board between cars. The terrain around the train is unpaved, yet has what appears to be wagon tracks marked into it, perpendicular to and intersecting the train tracks. Sparse vegetation is visible in the background, and at the extreme right background, the beginning of a mountain.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3385
title: Corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga Avenue, taken from the home of John DeLonpre, looking west, Hollywood, ca.1901

description: Photograph of the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga Avenue, taken from the home of John DeLonpre, looking west, Hollywood, ca.1901. Mountains are visible in the distance, greatly obscured by the tree cover visible throughout. At the corner of the road towards the bottom right a street sign can be seen, but is not legible. In the extreme foreground at center, a telephone pole is visible.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3268
title: Exterior view of a grove at the residence of Mrs. E.B. Wakerman, Hollywood pioneer, near Western Avenue, ca.1895

description: Photograph of an exterior view of a grove at the residence of Mrs. E.B. Wakerman, Hollywood pioneer, near Western Avenue, ca.1895. Two women and one man in formal dress stand at left in what appears to be an orchard. The second story and balcony of a victorian house is visible behind the rows of trees at right, as well as what appears to be a small grain silo approximately the size of the house closer to center. Mountains are visible through the mist in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17836
title: Map of Hollywood by H.H. Wilcox and Co., 1887

description: Photograph of a map of Hollywood by H.H. Wilcox and Co., 1887. The two-part map is separated into both a graphic block map showing the layout of the city with an inlaid picture of the Hotel Hollywood, and a topographical perspective shot of the city shown from birdseye view which includes the mountains that the overlapping block map does not. Beneath the ornately written title on the topographical map which reads "Map of Hollywood" is a picture of a mansion under which the script reads "Residence of H.H. Wilcox." Beneath this is the text "For Particulars / apply to / H.H. Wilcox & Co. / Los Angeles, Cal." also written ornately. A list of sites of interest inscribed to the right of the block map reads "References: / 1 Hotel Hollywood. / 2 Residence of H.H. Wilcox. / 3 Hollywood Depot. / 4 Business Block of H.D.[...]. / 5 Mt. Wittier. / 6 Hotel Hollywood. / 7 City Reservoir. / 8 Soldier's Home. / 9 Santa Monica. / 10 Ballona Harbor. / 8 Sunset Hotel.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m776
title: Northeast corner of Fifth and Spring Streets, ca.1905

description: Photograph of the northeast corner of Fifth and Spring Streets, ca.1905. At center, the Hazzard and Harpham Patent Office can be seen with a ladder leading to its roof on the second floor. Signs inscribed on four of the upper windows facing the camera read "Drexler Painless Dental". Other legible signs on the Harpham Office read "[...]is Saloon Will Move [...] so Spring [...]", "Public Sale / 8 Days Only / Clothing-Shoes" and "Public Sale / Clothing / Furnishings / Hats-Shoes". Pedestrians are visible in the street as well as a horse and carriage at left. Further right, the George A. Ralphs Grocery Company can be seen, with a sign that reads "Poinsettia" on its visible wall.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17837
title: First Street and Hill Street before the tunnel was cut through, November 1908

description: Photograph of First Street and Hill Street before the tunnel was cut through, November 1908. The apparently unpaved road, lined by telephone poles, curves to the right down towards the town, in which a collection of houses can be seen progressing up a hill. On a hill between the partially visible porch of a house at left and the road is a sign that reads "Highland Villa / Furnished Rooms / $2.00 per Week & Up". Rail tracks are visibly embedded in the road, and a switch track light can be seen at left. Tree cover obscures most of the sky.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3457
title: Los Angeles Times Building on Broadway and First Street after being bombed, October 1, 1910

description: Photograph of the Los Angeles Times Building on Broadway and First Street after being bombed, October 1, 1910. Firemen pictured at left continue to struggle to put out the blaze. The building, partially collapsed to the left, has a firemen's ladder extending to its third-story window. Rubble and debris can be seen piled-up at left where the building has collapsed. The bombing itself was the work of striking union members; directly before the bombing and during a metal worker's strike, the Times had been decidedly anti-union both in its editorials and in its treatment of employees, consequently invoking the dynamiting.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3280
title: The first house in Hollywood, California, ca.1905

description: Photograph of the first house in Hollywood, California, ca.1905. The long, one-story building can be seen largely obscured by plant foliage. A bush can be seen blocking the narrow wall of the house at left, while trees and tall growing garden plants block most of the view of the front porch. Stones line the driveway leading to the house as well as a small flower bed on the narrow side of the house, and mountains can be seen in the background. The house itself, known as "The Outpost", was built in 1855 by Don Tornas Urquidez, at what is now 7061 Franklin Street. It was demolished in 1924.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14534
title: City view from tower of San Agustin, Queretario, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of a city view taken from the tower of San Agustin (Saint Augustine), in Queretario, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. Across the rooftops that spread across the foreground sits a large church structure bearing a cross atop it, at left. A large tree can be seen right of the foreground, while several tall bushes appear by the roof top at left and rows of fence-like ornaments line the structures.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6669
title: Exterior view of the home of General Jose Perez (?) in South Pasadena, California, ca.1910

description: Photograph of the home of General Jose Perez (?) in South Pasadena, ca.1910. The one-story house, located southeast of the Hotel Raymond, sports a shingled terracotta roof and shuttered windows, two of which can be seen in the photograph along with two doors. The house is obscured to the right by the foliage of a large tree. A stone wall, approximately two feet high, marks the perimeter in front of the house, behind which a second large tree is visible. An unpaved road leading to the house is visible in the foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1578
title: View of the residence of Don Agustine (Augustine) Olvera on the corner of Los Angeles Street and Marchesault Street, ca.1880

description: Photograph of the residence of Don Agustine (Augustine) Olvera on the corner of Los Angeles and Marchesault streets, ca.1880. Built by Don Tiburcio Tapia in 1854(?--source Bill Mason lists Tapia as having died in 1847), the long, one-story house appears to be engaging in commercial interests: café tables are visible beneath its covered porch, at one of which several people are sitting. Signs adorn the outside of the house and read "Murray & Ready", "Other Offices", "Sohombres", "If your [...] call me early [...] for to morrow [...]". Both streets are unpaved. Telephone poles are visible to the front and side of the house, and man riding a bicycle can be seen at the extreme left with is back to the camera. The site would later become the location of the Mexican Methodist Church and Clinic.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3795
title: Courtyard at the Mission Los Angeles, ca.1890

description: Photograph of the courtyard at the Mission Los Angeles, ca.1890. The first part of the structure to be built, the patio, is pictured, of which both the walls and the roof show signs of deterioration. An open door is visible at center, to the left of which a stack of eight chairs is standing. Windows are visible to either side of the door.  The scalloped wall of a brick building can be seen over the mission's single story as well as the spire of what appears to be a type of pagoda, just visible behind the tree that stands at center.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1913
title: Exterior view of the Los Angeles Post Office on the corner of Seventh Street and Grand Avenue, 1906

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Los Angeles Post Office on the corner of Seventh Street and Grand Avenue, 1906. The Romanesque architecture of the one-story building sports six visible arched windows to the right wall, while showing fourteen rectangular one-over-one sash windows to the left. Both an early automobile without a top and a horse-drawn carriage are pictured on the streets, to the left and the right, respectively, as well as other pedestrians. The Post Office was moved here to Seventh and Grand in November 1904 and later moved away again in the September of 1910 to the corner of Main Street and Winston Street. The site, which was once the former cable power house, later became site of the J.W. Robinson Co. Department Store.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3272
title: An adobe house lived in by Frenchman Jean Cavaux on Bronson and Clinton Streets, 1910

description: Photograph of an adobe house lived in by Frenchman Jean Cavaux on Bronson and Clinton Streets, 1910. The door of the long, one-story house (finished 1855, torn down 1922) is open at center, and sports a two-paned window. To either side of this, shuttered windows can be seen, although the window to the right is partially obscured by a tall-standing topiary tree. On the same wall of the house at right another opening, what is possibly a door can be seen. A third window is visible at left on the narrow side of the house as well. Piled rocks in seeming disarray line the perimeter of the building closely. Another large tree is visible in the background behind the structure. The yard does not appear to have grass.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m972
title: Pacific Electric Depot on Sixth Street, ca.1903

description: Photograph of the Pacific Electric Depot on Sixth Street, ca.1903. The eight-story building is built in a Romanesque style, sporting arched windows and molded trim. A sign in one of the windows reads "C. Leonard, Contractor". On the street below, two cable-cars are parked to the right of a group of pedestrians in front of a collection of striped tents. Although once source quotes "Ticket office in tent on corner" a sign on one of the tents reading "Restaurant" is legible. A palm and several other trees are pictured along the sidewalk.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3216
title: Exterior view of the first store built in Hollywood, at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Cahuenga Avenue, ca.1910

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the first store built in Hollywood, at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Cahuenga Avenue, ca.1910. The store, built in 1871 (Zelda Cini dates it, however, ca.1887), has exterior plank walls, a covered patio with railing visible at left on the narrow side of the house, and both a doorway and a window on the wide side shaded by small overhangs. The roof of the building is topped by a grid of wooden framework. Trees are visible in the background, and what appears to be a telephone pole is visible to the extreme right. A sidewalk runs the edge of both of the store's street-side walls.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5693
title: The Verdugo house, Glendale, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the Verdugo house, Glendale, ca.1900. The house, the last of five adobes that the Verdugo family built in Verdugo Canyon, is pictured here behind several trees so that only parts of the shingled roof, a six-pane window, the front door and the brick steps to the porch are clearly visible. The perimeter of the yard is demarcated by an approximately half-foot barrier of large, rounded stones, and a row of shrubs lines the walkway to the porch of the house on either side. What appears to be a large terracotta jar hangs from the tree in the left foreground, approximately five feet off the ground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12314
title: Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad Depot at Alison Street and Anderson Street, Los Angeles, 1884

description: Photograph of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad Depot at Alison Street and Anderson Street, Los Angeles, 1884. A steam engine attached to its coal car with a straight smokestack and cow catcher is pictured in desert terrain. The side of the coal car reads "L.A. & S.G.V." and a mountain is visible in the far distance behind it. The operation was later taken over by the Santa Fe Railroad in 1887.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m636
title: Main Street and the Rosselyn hotel taken from Fifth Street, January 1907

description: Photograph of Main Street and the Rosselyn hotel taken from Fifth Street, January 1907. At center a two-story Victorian house sports a sign that reads "The Beaumont Café and Restaurant" as well as simply "The Beaumont." Surrounding the perimeter of the house's lawn is a picket fence approximately three feet tall in front of which six pedestrians can be seen, one of whom is walking briskly. To the left of the house, its lower floors obscured by trees, what appears to be a Romanesque apartment building can be seen. Six floors are visible. To the right of the house, a storefront is partially visible with signs reading "New York [...]", "Real Estate", "New York [...] Merchant [...] Tailors", and "Suits [...]". The hotel was built for John H. Jones who lived there until October of 1900. It was later replaced by a silent movie house called the Clunes Theater in 1917.