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DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5914
title: Pine Avenue looking north from Ocean Avenue in Long Beach, California, ca.1905

description: Photograph of Pine Avenue looking north from Ocean Avenue in Long Beach, California, ca.1905. A brick, three-story building with Romanesque architecture stands on the corner at left. A sign which reads "Dentist" extends from one of its molded second-story windows. A large department-store window is partially visible on the ground floor at left decorated with cloth to the right of which a group of men stand near a bicycle under a cloth overhang. Further down the row of storefronts on the street, a sign reads "Harness Shop". Commercial buildings also line the left side of the unpaved road, sporting both brick and clapboard veneers. Horse-drawn carriages situate themselves to either side.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17785
title: Portrait of Benjamin Flint, Long Beach, California, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Benjamin Flint, Long Beach, California, [s.d.]. The bust of Mr. Flint is shown facing the camera directly, outlined by a decorative frame. Mr. Flint, his hair quaffed, has a relatively young face, free of wrinkles, with a prominent brow and lips. He wears an unbuttoned jacket under which what appears to be a watch-fob is attached to the breast of his vest. He wears his collar up, around which a modest cravat is tied.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13460
title: Portrait of Llewellyn Bixby, Long Beach, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Llewellyn Bixby, Long Beach, [s.d.].  Mr. Llewellyn, one of the Bixby family famous for their land holdings in California during the late 1800's and early 1900's, can be seen in bust with what appears to be a wool suit jacket pulled over a vest. A ribbon appears to be hanging across his chest. He wears his collar up under the bondage of a bow-tie. His face is young and relatively wrinkle-free, his dark hair combed to the left. Llewellyn's daughter, Sarah Bixby Smith, went on to write a memoir about early American rule called "Adobe Days", published in 1925.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6451
title: Travelers outside the Hotel Wilmore on opening day in Long Beach, 1887

description: Photograph of the Hotel Wilmore on opening day in Long Beach, 1887. The two-story hotel (Long Beach's first) stands at center sporting a porch and balcony supported by colonnade as well as a clapboard veneer and other Victorian elements. A few abandoned crates and debris sit in front while guests arrange themselves in a horse-drawn streetcar behind. An American flag waves from the center of the hotel's roof, on which a weathervein is also visible. A man attends a horse-drawn wagon on the ground in the left background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5921
title: Ocean Avenue looking south from Pine Avenue in Long Beach, 1925

description: Photograph of Ocean Avenue looking south from Pine Avenue in Long Beach, 1925. The Hotel Schuyler stands to the left of the street, a new addition being constructed several times taller than the existing building. A canopy on the ground-level reads "The Unique Shop". An electric train stretches into right center the bottom edge of the image, while streetcars and automobiles navigate the rest of the street at left. One of the streetcars sports a sign that identifies it as bound for San Pedro. People walk along the sidewalk on either side of the street, and gather at the train. More high-rise buildings can be seen in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17786
title: Celebration for opening day at the Palm Avenue Pier in Long Beach, 1893

description: Photograph of the celebration for opening day at the Palm Avenue Pier in Long Beach, 1893. A long wagon, hitched to four horses and full of passengers, stands at center decorated in hay and palm fronds to the left of which several men sit mounted on horses. The pier extends out over the beach and the ocean in the background. Several people stroll its boards. Signs at the entrance to the pier read "Bicycle riders are warned not to ride machines on the side-walks or wharf--or discharge fire-arms [...] PENALTY [...]", "Go to Bolters [...] Lunches [...] Tamales" and "Fresh Fish". A boy stands in front of the wagon-horses petting his dog.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5858
title: View of the southeast side of the beach looking in from the water in Long Beach, 1900

description: Photograph of a view of the southeast side of the beach looking in from the water in Long Beach, 1900. A horse-drawn carriage walks the shore at left while other visitors lounge in the sand. To the extreme right, the silhouettes of people playing in the water can be seen. Several modest, two-story houses can be seen in the background in front of the treeline. The water of the ocean is clear enough to see the underlying sand through. It dominates the foreground of the image.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5799
title: Panoramic view of the ships in the outer harbor at Long Beach, taken from the city, ca.1925

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of the ships in the outer harbor at Long Beach, taken from the city, ca.1925. A line of large ships is visible through haze along the horizon in the distance beyond the city, visible at the bottom of the image. Hoyt's Theatre, the Hotel Arlington, the Crystal Cafeteria and the Ambassador Ballroom Dancing buildings are visible, as well as the tracks for a wooden rollercoaster and a ferris wheel.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5932
title: Pine Avenue from the foot of the pier in Long Beach, California, ca.1910

description: Photograph of Pine Avenue from the foot of the pier in Long Beach, California, ca.1910. A few pedestrians walk the unpaved beach-end of the avenue while carriages ride through the city in the background. To the left, people walk in crowds along the boards of the pier, under which a sign reads "Buffalo Bill's [...]". A sign on a building in the background at right advertises "Furnished Rooms", while a billboard to the right of the street advertises flour and five-cent cigars.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5919
title: Ocean Avenue looking southeast from the side of the road at Long Beach, California, ca.1905

description: Photograph of Ocean Avenue looking southeast from the side of the road at Long Beach, California, ca.1905. Trees and two-story houses with clapboard veneer line the far side of the street. Most of them have balconies. Spires are evident on the vaulted roofs of both a building in the foreground, and one in the distance, further right, obscured partially by beach grass.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14553
title: Maximillian's open and empty coffin in the Historical Building, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Stereograph of Maximillian's open and empty coffin in the Historical Building, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. Maximillian, who ruled with Carlotta at Curenavaca in the 19th century, was imprisoned and executed in Queretaro. At the center of both images, a coffin without a lid can be seen leaning near a door. To the sides of the coffin, small tables with signs are visible. Above the coffin, three portraits can be seen hanging on the wall.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3192
title: Santa Monica Boulevard looking west from Western Avenue in Hollywood, 1906

description: Photograph of Santa Monica Boulevard looking west from Western Avenue in Hollywood, 1906. A house, at left, is obscured by the heavy foliage of the eucalyptus trees that line the street. A streetcar pole in the center of the unpaved road reads "Cars Stop Here Only". The lot on which the house sits is on the southwest corner and measures 168' x 169'. It was sold in 1902 for $2500 and later leased in 1927 for $3,771,000 for a period of ninety-nine years.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3217
title: Hollywood adobe on the northwest corner of 7061 Franklin Avenue and Sycamore Avenue, owned by Don Thomas Uriquides, California, ca.1905

description: Photograph of a Hollywood adobe on the northwest corner of 7061 Franklin Avenue and Sycamore Avenue, owned by Don Thomas Uriquides, California, ca.1905. The one-story longhouse, built in 1853, sports a porch with an overhanging roof supported by a colonnade, on which an upholstered rocking chair and a short wooden chair are visible. The building has two chimneys, one which looks to be made of metal and the other which is evidently brick. A border made of stones marks the separation between the yard and the unpaved driveway in front of the house. What appear to be palm fronds seem attached to the porch's overhang. A tree cuts into the frame from the left. The adobe would later come into the possession of General Harrison Gray Otis, who called it the "Outpost".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3187
title: People posing on the Jose Mascarel Ranch in Hollywood, ca.1896

description: Photograph of people posing on the Jose Mascarel Ranch in Hollywood, ca.1896. Four women, most of whom are standing, pose with five children, all but one of whom are sitting, on what appears to be the tilled desert earth of a crop field at center. In the background to the right, what appear to be two more children stand in front of a windmill attending to an ox. To the left of this, three men stand in a wagon pulled by two horses. In the background, an adobe and a carriage house can be seen.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13563
title: Painter, Paul De Longpre, among his roses at his home in Hollywood, ca.1905-1906

description: Photograph of the painter Paul De Longpre among his roses at his home in Hollywood, California, ca.1905-1906. De Longpre stands on a paved walkway at center surrounded by flower blossoms. He wears a dark suit and bowtie and sports a white moustache. He wears a cap reminiscent of railway conductors. The window of a house is just visible in the left background while a palm front makes its way into the frame from the right. De Longpre, French-born, relocated to Hollywood with his wife and family after his traditional watercolor paintings of flowers sold well neither in Paris or New York. It was there that he met Daieda Wilcox, the land-rich widow of the founder of Hollywood, who enlisted De Longpre in her campaign to promote culture in the town. She turned three lots on Cahuenga Boulevard over to him, which he turned into a widely-visited tourist attraction where people would come to see his Moorish-style mansion and lavish gardens.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3249
title: The residence and gardens of Paul De Longpre on the corner of Cahuenga Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, ca.1908

description: Photograph of the residence and gardens of Paul De Longpre on the corner of Cahuenga Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, ca.1908. To the left, the two-story, Moorish-style mansion of the French-born painter can be seen with its spires and decorative moldings, in front of which, the lush vegetation of the gardens can be seen, bordered by a hedgerow. A sidewalk follows to the right of this, which is in turn bordered by a chickenwire fence on which what appears to be ivy is growing. A large tree stretches in from the extreme right, hanging a branch over the rest of the picture. De Longpre relocated to Hollywood with his wife and family after his traditional watercolor paintings of flowers sold well neither in Paris or New York. It was there that he met Daieda Wilcox, the land-rich widow of the founder of Hollywood, who enlisted De Longpre in her campaign to promote culture in the town. She turned three lots on Cahuenga Boulevard over to him, which he turned into a widely-visited tourist attraction where people would come to see his mansion and lavish gardens.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3155
title: View of Hollywood looking north from a bare field, 1890-1900

description: Photograph of a view of Hollywood looking north on the site of a high school, California, 1890-1900. A dusty field with three scrub-trees at its center takes up the majority of the photo's lower region. Above this, a road cuts across the frame behind which a few one-story homes can be seen. Hills with trees and evidence of a farm complexes on one can be seen along with mountains in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3147
title: View of Hollywood looking north from Normandie Avenue and Melrose Avenue, California, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a view of Hollywood looking north from Normandie Avenue and Melrose Avenue, California, ca.1900. A few lines of trees stripe the background along the fences that mark the property lines between two homesteads. In the centerground, a small, one-story house can be seen next to a windmill with a barn further left. On the same property, to the extreme right, a shack can be seen standing next to a lone tree. In the distance behind this shack, a similar homestead whose main building sports a spire can be seen, itself surrounded by a line of thin, young trees. A post, possibly a fence post, is visible in the extreme foreground at right. Mountains are visible in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3208
title: Exterior of Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church on Hollywood Boulevard between Vine Street and Ivar Street, ca.1898

description: Photograph of the exterior of Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church on Hollywood Boulevard between Vine Street and Ivar Street, ca.1898. The door and front face of a brick cottage overrun by plant growth is shown. The door is modest and sports a small overhang. A tree with hanging vines is centered behind a brick enclosure in front of which a short hedgerow has been planted. To the extreme right, a second overhang and annex of the church is overgrown by vines, as well as being surrounded by a hedgrow.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3220
title: Exterior view of the Sackett Hotel, Store and Post Office on Caheunga Drive and Hollywood Boulevard, ca.1905

description: Photograph of the Sackett Hotel, Store and Post Office on Caheunga Drive and Hollywood Boulevard, ca.1905. An odd, Victorian storefront sports a single-level strip with an overhand supported by colonnade, along which the shops are situated. On a second-story above them, what appears to be the top of a Victorian house is situated with a balcony and clapboard veneer, only half the width of the lower structure. Windows on the strip read "The Provident Life and Trust Co. of Philadelphia", "Hollywood", "Post Office", "Shoes Hats & [...] Furnishings", "Entrance to Ice Cream Parlor", and "Confectionary". Two trees each back their own hitching post, which are situated in front of the sidewalk. A telephone pole is evident in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3112
title: Panorama of Hollywood on Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga Drive looking southeast from an apricot orchard, ca.1891

description: Photograph in panorama of Hollywood on Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga Drive looking southeast from an apricot orchard, ca.1891. Rows of trees, both saplings and those in full bloom, are pictured surrounding the framework of a building under construction. In the background just right of center, the top of the Sacketts Hotel can be seen, along with the tops of a few other larger homes. In the background, mountains and the sparse houses of the city can be seen on a cleared plot. The eucalyptus trees along the left side on Hollywood Boulevard demarcate where the library was located.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13990
title: Plaza and cathedral in Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of the plaza and cathedral in Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. People can be seen at bottom left among pitched tents. A horse-drawn vehicle can be seen to the right of the crowd, while a stand of trees obscure a wooden bandstand at left. The huge cathedral has two tall ornate towers straddling either side of the main entrance in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3282
title: Hill residences in Hollywood, California, 1926

description: Photograph of hill residences in Hollywood, California, 1926. Small palms are planted in the meticulously trimmed grass rectangles that line the outer edge of the sidewalks. Four two-story villas with terracotta roof shingles can be seen along the far side of the road. They are decorated by tall trees with their own lawns meticulously trimmed. An early automobile is parked along the near side of the road. Mountains are visible in detail in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13190
title: Students of the Cahuenga Pass School with their teacher in Hollywood, California, 1891

description: Photograph of the students of the Cahuenga Pass School with their teacher in Hollywood, California, 1891. Thirty-nine students are posed in three rows in front of an exterior wall with shutters and clapboard. The steps leading to the entrance are just visible behind their teacher, Mrs. Mott, who stands with them to the left. The child in the frontmost row is barefoot, unlike the rest, while in the back row an older girl supports a younger girl by the shoulders. To the left near Mrs. Mott, a taller girl cradles a doll.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17787
title: Portrait of land owner Dona Plummer, Hollywood, California, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of land owner Dona Plummer, Hollywood, California, [s.d.]. Ms. Plummer, who obtained a "Spanish" land grant at Santa Monica Boulevard and Farden Street in 1869 raised cattle and sheep there. She is pictured here, in bust, facing the camera with a dark veil drawn back behind her shoulders. It is topped by a buckle. Her dress seems to be decorated by a ruffle of ribbons along the front and encloses her body all the way up to her neck. She appears tight-lipped, with her eyebrows almost invisible above her dark eyes.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3270
title: Residence of A.G. Bartlett on Hollywood Boulevard between Vine Street and Gower Street, ca.1905

description: Photograph of the residence of A.G. Bartlett on Hollywood Boulevard between Vine Street and Gower Street, ca.1905. A plowed field is separated from crop rows by a picket fence, behind which a mansion, next to which a windmill stands, is visible on a hill, overlooking the crops. To its left, steps with railing lead down the hill to a smaller house, possibly a barn. Beyond this property, divided by yet another fence, more houses can be seen in the distance in front of the mountains.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13463
title: Portrait of songwriter Cary Jacobs Bond in Hollywood, California, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of songwriter Cary Jacobs Bond in Hollywood, California, [s.d.]. Here, the composer of "A Perfect Day", "I Love You Truly" and "Just a Wearying for You" sits in a lavish gown made of what appears to be satin and lace, holding sheet music with her left hand and supporting herself to the side with her right. Her hair is up. She wears a bracelet on her left wrist, and stares straight ahead with her upturned features.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3111
title: Panorama of Hollywood from Vista Street to Franklin Street, 1898

description: Photograph in panorama of Hollywood from Vista Street to Franklin Street, 1898. A homestead with an uncleared field as well as some crop rows is visible beyond the tall grasses that dominate the foreground. Two light-colored buildings stand just behind them to the extreme right of the photograph, with a small stretch of tilled land behind them. Trees are scattered throughout the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17788
title: Dennis Sullivan plowing on the site of what would later become a university in Hollywood, California, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of Dennis Sullivan plowing on the site of what would later become a university in Hollywood, California, [s.d.]. A man stands in a hat and button-down shirt to the right, behind a group of six hitched horses pulling a plow supported by wheels. A post-and-rail fence is visible in the background, behind which a few other, grazing horses can be seen in the distance. Picture file card reads "160 Acres in the Early 70's".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17789
title: Don Eugene Plummer at his decorative fountain in Hollywood, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of Don Eugene Plummer at his decorative fountain in Hollywood, [s.d.]. Plummer, the son of landowner Dona Cecelia Plummer, Stands next to the cobblestone cylinder of his fountain in a vest, holding his hat to his side. A frame has been built above the fountain, over which plants have begun to grow. A garden hose is visible on the ground to the left. In the background, a one-story longhouse with a sign on the porch which reads "[...] only" can be seen. Tree foliage hangs in from above.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3352
title: Children on Western Avenue south of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, ca.1906

description: Photograph of children on Western Avenue south of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, ca.1906. A group of four children made up of two girls and two boys stand in the unpaved road to either side of baskets affixed with large, spoked wheels, roughly as tall as they are. The road continues into the left background. A three-story house is visible behind them. Telephone poles stand alongside the road. Houses and crop rows can be seen on the hills in the distance. Mountains are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3328
title: Construction of Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, California, ca.1919-1922

description: Photograph of the construction of the then-new Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, California, ca.1919-1925. Several early automobiles are parked in the unpaved lot in front of a framework structure which stands at the base of a depression being smoothed by plowhorses, as evident from the regularized tracks in the dirt. A group of horses are visible on the top left edge of the depression in the distance as well as plowing in the basin of the depression. A tractor is visible in basin to the right, along with several people rounding the hill still further right. A picket fence terminates just shy of the basin at left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14554
title: Interior of the Cathedral, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of the interior of the Cathedral, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. The pulpit is in the right foreground. Banners hang down from the ceiling (not visible).; "...This is a magnificent high altar supported by marble columns, and surrounded by a Tombago balustrade with 62 statues of the same rich gold, silver and copper alloy serving as candelabra. The elaborately carved choir is also enclosed by Tombago railing weighing 26 tons, and valued at $1,500,000." (ca.1905)
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3357
title: Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood looking west from Gower (?) Street, California, ca.1905

description: Photograph of Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood looking west from Gower (?) Street, California, ca.1905. Trees and a picket fence line the right side of the unpaved road, in which the tracks for a streetcar are evident. To the left, poles for the streetcar's cable extend into the distance, along with the remains of cut lumber. Behind this to the left, a few thin trees stand.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3258
title: Home of Henry Claussen on Beachwood Drive in Hollywood, California, ca.1905

description: Photograph of the home of Henry Claussen on Beachwood Drive in Hollywood, California, ca.1905. A small cottage stands along the treeline of an orchard in the foreground, with a windmill a little farther off to the left among crop rows. Further still along a narrow, unpaved road, stands a two-story house and what is partially visible of an even larger house to the extreme left. In the valley below, crop rows and orchards are visible running up against the foot of the mountains in the background. Picture File Card reads "In the early days, Henry Claussen--a penniless, crippled German--took up a section of government land in Beachwood Canyon. For want of a horse, he carried his butchered ureal on his back to the market in the Pueblo Los Angeles."
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17790
title: United States President Taft's visit to Hollywood, October 11, 1911

description: Photograph of United States President Taft's visit to Hollywood, October 11, 1911. President Taft stands in the back of a train car, looking out the open window towards the group of onlookers in the foreground. A man on the ground at center is turned away from Taft and appears to be dancing, with his hat in his hand. A woman holds her baby at left. A man dances with a woman at right.