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DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2224
title: Los Angeles firefighters tending their water pumps during a fire at Third Street and Broadway, ca.1913

description: Photograph firefighters tending their water pumps during a fire at Third Street and Broadway, ca.1913. The tops of two of the water-pump carts can be seen in the foreground, the left one attended by a fireman and billowing steam. Two more stand in the background, separated by a tangle of fire hose on the street. Firemen to the right use the hoses to douse the fire burning in the high rise at the background. Legible signs include: "State Shop" and "Siegel's Women's and Children's Wear".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2228
title: Los Angeles firefighters posing in front of a horse-drawn water cannon at the Los Angeles Fire Department, ca.1913

description: Photograph of firefighters posing in front of a horse-drawn water cannon at the Los Angeles Fire Department, now (1983) station 12, North Figueroa, restored by L.A.F.D. 1981), ca.1913. Three firemen stand to the left of center in button-down uniforms, the rightmost man having two rows of buttons to the others' one. A fourth man sits in the coachman's seat of the water cannon, a long pipe supported by scaffold with a positionable nozzle at the tip. Its cart is led by two white horses and one pinto horse and is partially still in the garage. Small, one-story craftsman-style houses are visible in the background. The road is unpaved.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8074
title: Palm Canyon near Palm Springs, showing a stream in the foreground, ca.1900

description: Photograph of Palm Canyon near Palm Springs, showing a stream in the foreground, ca.1900. Many palm trees (Washingtonia Filifera) stand at center with the canyon wall behind them on the left. A man and his dog lean against a large boulder in front of the palm trees on the left. A still stream in the foreground shows a reflection of the palm trees.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1503
title: Exterior view of the Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana, showing the fountain, ca.1905

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana, showing the fountain, ca.1905. The dilapidated fountain is pictured to the right of center, one of two pictured bicycles leaning against it. Several birds appear to be perched on its edge. The buildings of the mission are visible to the left, across a dirt path and farther back. The lightly-colored adobe patio with its arched entranceway stands in front of the smaller adobe hut, whose bricks are showing. Both buildings have terracotta-tiled roofs. A circular patch of dirt stands in the foreground, surrounded by dry, low-growing grasses.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2681
title: Ruins of Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana, seen from the east end, ca.1905

description: Photograph of the ruins of Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana, seen from the east end, ca.1905. A large, two-story adobe stand in the background at center, its bricks evident due to losing its plaster. A smaller adobe hut stands in front of it to theleft of center, its roof losing its tiles and collapsing. In the foreground to the right, the remains of a collapsed adobe are gathering drifts of sand along the remains of the walls. Dry, low-growing grass covers the ground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5503
title: "Black Jack" and his mule on Catalina Island, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of "Black Jack" and his mule on Catalina Island, [s.d.]. A man is pictured seated pensively on the rocky hillside to the left, while a pack mule farther towards center seems also to be at rest. The hills fill the rest of the image.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8073
title: Indian Marcus standing on Lookout Point, Lookout Rock, Palm Canyon, near Palm Springs, ca.1900

description: Photograph of Indian Marcus standing on Lookout Point, Lookout Rock, Palm Canyon, near Palm Springs, ca.1900. The man stands at the top of the large, overhanging rock at right with his hand to the brim of his hat. The rocks below are jagged with tall grass at their base. Palm trees stand at the bottom of a slope at left while more of the rock hill stands in the background. "Owned by Mrs. Pearl McManus, daughter of Judge McCollum" - - file note.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4877
title: Exterior view of an adobe built by Frenchman Don Luiz Martinez in Sonora Town near Ninth Street and the River(?), ca.1905

description: Photograph of an exterior view of an adobe built by Frenchman Don Luiz Martinez in Sonora Town near Ninth Street and the River(?), ca.1905. A large tree stands at center, obscuring most of the modest one-story adobe behind it. One shuttered window is featured on the adobe's displayed narrow side, with the porch standing to the left, overhung by extended eaves. A windmill stands to the left of the tree next to two carts, backed by still more trees. A sheep grazes on the grass in the foreground. The rudder of the windmill reads "Star Mill". Previous record file read: "stood where now Hansen Packing Company stands".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7227
title: Los Angeles Camera Club's float for Los Angeles' La Fiesta Parade, ca.1901

description: Photograph of the Los Angeles Camera Club's float for Los Angeles' La Fiesta Parade, ca.1901. A horse-drawn carriage decorated from top to bottom with flowers stands at center, surrounded by horsemen in sombreros and white suits. The float holds four rows of women clothed in similar lightly-colored dresses, not including the two women who sit up front with the coachman. A banner extending from the top of the coach identifies the club. A two-story building with a balcony that appears to be a hotel is visible in the background, along with a brick building to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9050
title: Workers bringing sugar beets to mill by steam-tractor and horse-drawn cart, ca.1900

description: Photograph of workers bringing sugar beets to mill by steam-tractor and horse-drawn cart, ca.1900. A man in a hat and vest in the foreground tends the reigns of one of the four horses pulling one of the two cartload full of sugar beets, while a steam-powered tractors billows smoke in the background, trailing its own cargo of beets. The second cart of beets can be seen farther back to the right. Nine workers pose on and around the equipment. Writing on the tractor reads: "Amedee" and "The Best Manufacturing San [...]eandro". Picture file card identifies the operation as the "Pacific Sugar Co.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4464
title: Girl trapped on a rock formation in off Point Fermin as the tide comes in, San Pedro, ca.1891

description: Photograph of a girl trapped on a rock formation in off Point Fermin as the tide comes in, San Pedro, ca.1891. The girl stands on the edge of a slab of rock extending from a pillar of stone that is surrounded by water. Her arms are outstretched, a hat and cloat at her feet. Water is rushing in to cover the ground in front of her. Picture file card reads: "caught when the tide came in off Point Fermin". Compares to CHS-291.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2754
title: Exterior view of "La Castle de Crescenta" at Rancho San Rafael, ca.1898

description: Photograph of an exterior view of "La Castle de Crescenta" at Rancho San Rafael, ca.1898. Two men sit on the steps leading to Eugene H. Gould's stone castle at right. The castle's tower stands at center, surrounded by archways to the right and a tall main building to the left. E.H. Gould built himself a castle with crenellated walls, a covered, arched entryway, and round tower out of local stone high in the dry hills above the Crescenta-Canada Valley. The property had been part of Rancho San Rafael. Low stone retaining walls provide terraces for imported shrubbery and trees. It was located on the east side of Pickens Canyon and designed to be similar to a castle that Mrs. Gould had seen in Morocco. It was later demolished in the 1950's. A caption below the image gives the alternate spelling "La Cre Scenta".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9479
title: Wall of hay bales with a horse-drawn cart, Tulare County, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a wall of hay bales with a horse-drawn cart, Tulare County, ca.1900. A wall of hay stands at center, eight bales high and approximately thirty-one bales across, topped by a huge pile of unbaled hay. A horse stands free behind a cart drawn by two other horses with a man at the helm. A second pile of unbaled hay stands a little farther back to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5211
title: Professor Lowe and his family in a horse-drawn sleigh at the Alpine Tavern on Mt. Lowe, Altadena, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of Professor Lowe and his family in a horse-drawn sleigh at the Alpine Tavern on Mt. Lowe, Altadena, [s.d.]. Five men and one woman are seated in the sleigh, with the four horses pointed to the left. A cabin is visible through the trees in the distance behind them. The sleigh is lined with fur. Snow is on the ground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14199
title: Exterior view of the Winchester "Mystery" House, Santa Clara, ca.1900

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Winchester "Mystery" House, Santa Clara, ca.1900. A sidewalk in the foreground with two trees along its edge intersects a trail that runs down the center with a small portion of the house at the end. Grass walls with stone posts stand on either side of the trail with a dark gate that guards the entrance. Further back down the trail, palm trees as well as short bushes cover the yards on either side of the trail. The house is lightly-colored with a large bush leaning on the visible wall.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1737
title: Panoramic view of the Huntington residence (Judge O.W. Childs Place), Los Angeles, ca.1908

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of the Huntington residence (Judge O.W. Childs Place), Los Angeles, ca.1908. The residence, whose property spans from Main Street to Hill Street and from Eleventh Street to Twelfth Street, is shown here with a wide view of the house and lawn, showing people situated in several disparate areas. In the distance, individuals can be seen sitting on the steps of the two-story clapboarded house, and on its porch. Most of the upper story is obscured by the foliage of two trees that flank it to either side. In the section of the lawn directly in front of the house, which is separated from it by the crescent of the driveway, two adults sit on a bench beneath one of the flanking trees while two children sit on the ground approximately twenty feet away from them to the left. Three women can also be seen sitting on a second bench in the same area a similar distance to the right with a third bench full of people visible across the drive in the patch of lawn behind them. A fourth bench full of people is visible next to the house at the far left, with even more bench visitors in the distance at the extreme right, beyond which a house from the neighborhood is visible. A dead tree stands in the front portion of lawn to the left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1736
title: Exterior view of the Huntington residence (Judge O.W. Childs Place), Los Angeles, ca.1908

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Huntington residence (Judge O.W. Childs Place), Los Angeles, ca.1908. Two women sit on a bench beneath a tree at center, which obscures much of the upper level of the two-story clapboard-sided house behind them. Four schoolgirls can be seen on the house's steps, with a group of seven adults on the porch behind them. Two young children sit on the lawn about twenty feet to the left of the women on the bench, one of them partially out of frame. Picture file card reads: "Oak Grove Station". Compare to: CHS-7658. Photograph is a panorama extended from this image.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14643
title: Palm Springs Indians, Marcus and wife, at their home, ca.1898-1901

description: Photograph of Palm Springs Indians, Marcus and wife, outside of their grass home, ca.1898-1901. Two dogs are laying on the ground at her feet as she works (basket making?) in her lap. Marcus is mounted on horseback looking down at her. A saddle is hanging from a peg behind her. Around the immediate grounds of the house are two tables with buckets on them
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8036
title: Exterior view of the Oak Grove Stage Station on the Warner Ranch, San Diego, ca.1924-1930

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Oak Grove Stage Station on the Warner Ranch, San Diego, ca.1924-1930. An aged man and woman stand next to one of the trees that line the front porch of a long, one-story, clap-board sided building. A dog stands at their feet. The building has several doors along its front with several chairs on the porch. A tree has grown through the porch and the eaves, and it exits through the top of the roof. Several boxes are stacked next to it. Tall grass fill the lower foreground. Picture file card also reads: "Butterfield Station". Compares to: CHS-7661. Photograph possibly shows the same area and people from a different direction.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8956
title: Exterior view of the Oak Grove Stage Station on the Warner Ranch, San Diego, ca.1900-1924

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Oak Grove Stage Station on the Warner Ranch, San Diego, ca.1900-1924. An aged man and woman stand back from the foreground a little right of center, a dog at their feet. A forked tree stands in the left foreground, one of several that line the front of the long, one-story, clap-board sided building behind it. Several chairs can be seen on the porch, along with a tree that has grown through the porch and roof in the background. Compares to: CHS-7660. Photograph possibly shows the same area and people from a different direction.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17739
title: Indian granary, ca.1900-1910

description: Photograph of an Indian granary, ca.1900-1910. A mortar and pestle are pictured on the ground beneath a frame made from tree branches, on top of which a birdhouse-like thatched container sits. A dirt road and the right side of a two-story adobe home are visible to the left. Tree foliage hangs in from above in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5350
title: Exterior view of the Willow Spring Stage Station building in Antelope Valley, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Willow Spring Stage Station building in Antelope Valley, [s.d.]. A long, one-story building made of mortar and rough-cut stones stands to the left with no porch. A water pump stands in front of it at center, a bucket visible a little farther in the background. A one-story wooden shack is partially visible in the background behind the station. The beginning of a post-and-rail fence can be seen in the right foreground. Tree branches hang in from above.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5333
title: Exterior view of the Willow Springs Mine and Stage Station, Kern County, ca.1900

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Willow Springs Mine and Stage Station, Kern County, ca.1900. A wheelbarrow and other farming implements stand to the left of center in a dirt clearing in the middle of several one-story buildings. A wheeled machine covered by a cloth and what appears to be a can of gasoline stand to the left. In the background the buildings are visible: to the right the building is made of rough-cut stone and features a wooden back edge. In the direct background, a similar building is shown from the front, no back edge visible, a tree and a utility pole standing in front of it. A taller, more narrow stone hut is visible with an eaves-shaded porch to the left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5332
title: Exterior view of the Willow Springs Gold Mine and Stage Station, Kern County, ca.1900

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Willow Springs Gold Mine and Stage Station, Kern County, ca.1900. Three buildings made of rough-cut stone stand in a row along a dirt clearing. The rightmost building stands the farthest into the foreground and features a bi-leveled roof, the second section of which extends over the foyer-style entranceway. The second building has no extended entrance, and has its entrance on its narrow side, unlike the first. A stone wall, however, extends from its side to the left towards the last and nearly identical building, which appears to be shorter. Trees are visible in front of the hills in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6717
title: Exterior view of the Los Nogales Ranch House, home of Don Ramon Vajar, ca.1931

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Los Nogales Ranch House, home of Don Ramon Vajar, ca.1931. The long, two-story adobe is pictured at center standing on a stone foundation, with a balcony on the second floor, and a chickenwire fence extending forward from it to the right. Paneled double-doors are visible flanked by windows to either side at left. A staircase is partially visible to the right leading to the second floor, its doors also visible. Vines hang over the fence while tree foliage hangs in from above. Dry grass fill the ground in front. The adobe is located on Diamond Bar Ranch near Spadra. Picture file card reads: "Pioneer notes Judge Hayes".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17975
title: Statue depicting Augustus Caesar, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a statue depicting Augustus Caesar, [s.d.]. The statue is pictured against a neutral background, depicting Augustus with a long scepter in the left hand held against his shoulder, his right hand outstretched as if pointing. He is dressed in roman armor, his cape bundled in the crook of his arm. A small child sits on a jug next to his right foot, clinging to his leg. The pedestal reads: "MVIVII ML IX X M / A N X VIII".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13477
title: Portrait of John "Chicken Johnny" Brinkley, native of Catalina Island, ca.1885

description: Photographic portrait of John "Chicken Johnny" Brinkley, native of Catalina Island, ca.1885. Mr. Brinkley stands on the stone front step of a wooden shack with his hat in his left hand. A pan can be seen hung from the outside wall to the right, beneath which a pile of tin cans can be seen. Mr. Brinkley is bald with what remaining hair he has at the side close-cropped like his beard. A few other stones sit to the left of his front step. He had only been off the island once in his lifetime, and worked for Shatto.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5471
title: Portrait of John "Chicken Johnny" Brinkley, native of Catalina Island, behind a house, ca.1885

description: Photographic portrait of John "Chicken George" Brinkley, native of Catalina Island, behind a house, ca.1885. Mr. Brinkley stands with his hands to his sides an his hat on, in front of some dying bushes. A tall, adobe house stands in the background behind him, partially obscured by trees. A tall hill is visible still further in the background, behind it. Mr. Brinkley had only been off of the island once in his lifetime, and worked for Shatto. Picture file card reads: "Chicken George", however, "Chicken Johnny" was found in an earlier record.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8106
title: Judge H.F. McCallum's ranch, Palm Springs, ca.1901

description: Photograph of Judge McCallum's ranch and orange grove in Palm Springs, later (1936) owned by his daughter Pearl McManus. The ranch house is nestled against the slope of a hill and looks out on the lines of trees in the grove. A mountain range is visible in the distant background. This was the first grove to ship oranges from Palm Springs and the earliest in the state.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13257
title: Map of the San Jacinto area, Riverside, ca.1840

description: Photograph of a map of the San Jacinto area, Riverside, ca.1840. The line drawing of the map shows surveyors' measurements and depicts San Jacinto Nueva and Viejo, San Gorgonio, Temescal the San Bernardino Ranch and the Sierra Rancho. A addendum at the bottom left hand corner of the map reads "NOTE The red lines indicate the False Survey. The deep black lines [...]" as well as "Diagram C.". Picture file card reads: "From G. Beattie".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8937
title: Exterior view on the Santa Margarita Ranch, San Diego, ca.1930

description: Photograph of an exterior view on the Santa Margarita Ranch, San Diego, ca.1930. An adobe residence in two sections is shown in the left background, with a wide dirt road standing in the foreground. The main building of the residence appears to be roughly two-stories high, from which a long one-story adobe extends to the left, a chimney rising out of its terracotta-tiled roof. Two palm trees flank it to either side in the front courtyard, which is demarcated by a low iron-and-stone wall. More houses, built in the craftsman style, are visible in the distance to the right, beyond a picket fence and positioned in a depression lower than the adobe. Dry, low-growing vegetation is visible by the road in the extreme foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7210
title: Exterior view of an adobe at the Santa Margarita Ranch, San Diego, ca.1875

description: Photograph of an exterior view of an adobe at the Santa Margarita Ranch, San Diego, ca.1875. A long, multi-doored adobe is pictured with terracotta roofing. Several benches sit against its exterior wall, shaded by the roof's overhanging eaves. Hills are visible in the background, while a dirt road is visible in the foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8981
title: Spanish (Mexican?) lighthouse at Point Loma, San Diego, ca.1922

description: Photograph of a Spanish (Mexican?) lighthouse at Point Loma, San Diego, ca.1922. An automobile is pictured rounding the curve of a dirt road to the left, with the lighthouse pictured to the right, a two-story adobe building with a metal cage extending from its top. A single window is visible on the narrow side of the main building, to the right of the wall's center. A sign in the cage reads "U.S. Post Exchange / Lunches Cold Drinks Cigars". Hills are visible low in the background, suggesting that the lighthouse is positioned in a high area, near a cliff.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4465
title: Painting by Paul Delaroche depicting Napoleon, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a painting by Paul Delaroche depicting Napoleon, [s.d.]. Napoleon is shown seated on what appears to be a cloth-draped rock, dressed in his French military uniform. Some of the cloth is draped over his right leg. He supports his head with his hand and rests his remaining hand on his knee. He appears to be young, or middle-aged and shows no wrinkles, although much of his facial features are obscured by shadow. A sash is visible draped across his chest underneath his jacket.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13018
title: Goodyear Blimp flying beside two sailing yachts, ca.1929

description: Photograph of a Goodyear Blimp flying beside two sailing yachts, ca.1929. Two yachts navigate choppy water, while the Goodyear blimp flies low in the same direction behind them. Writing on its tailfin reads "Volunteer NC-8-A" while "6/34" is written on one of the yacht sails. Three people can be seen in the frontmost yacht.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13015
title: Two views of the Graf Zeppelin airship at Mines Field, 1929

description: Photograph showing two views of the Graf Zeppelin airship at Mines Field, 1929. The top view shows the airship from the side facing left, with people and automobiles visible beneath it. Numbers on its side read "D-LZ127". The zeppelin is pictured in the lower image facing to the right, extending diagonally into the distance. A tower-like structure is raised to its front tip, a crowd of people gathered around it below. Automobiles are also visible.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17976
title: Exterior view of the Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana in disrepair, ca.1887

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana in disrepair, ca.1887. A long adobe building is pictured at center with most of its spackle having come off and its roof losing its terracotta tiles and collapsing. Multiple doors can be seen in its front, spaced at regular intervals. Piles of scrap wood are visible in the yard in front, along with tall, dry grasses.