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DOI: 10.25549/chs-m598
title: View looking north along Main Street near the Plaza, Los Angeles, ca.1881

description: Photograph of a view looking north along Main Street near the Plaza, Los Angeles, ca.1881. A three-story brick building stands in the left foreground along the unpaved street advertising "Russian Electric Baths" and features bay windows on the second floor as well as an overhang that shades the sidewalk in front of it. A second, similarly-constructed building stands farther in the background down the road and features gingerbread trim. Hills can be seen in the distance. Legible signs include: "Shaving 15¢", "Shampooing 25¢", "Hair Cutting 25¢", "Hair Work", "15 Russian Steam and Electric Baths", "Other Medicated Baths", and "Mrs. Huck's Dressmaker / Modes de Paris". Picture file card reads: "Russian Baths owned by Robert Hughs. This picture from Cal Grayson with G.W. Dickinson and Son 729 Reeves(?) Boulevard.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m18109
title: Periodical page transcribing Helen Hunt Jackson's letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson dated February 5, 1884, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a periodical page transcribing Helen Hunt Jackson's letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson dated February 5, 1884, [s.d.]. The image shows a page from a published book over which the title "The Outlook" is centered. Half a paragraph of biographical background on Mrs. Hunt Jackson is visible mentioning her book "Ramona" before the transcription of the letter begins. A footnote is also visible at the bottom of the mentioning the first publishing of "Ramona" in "The Outlook", which was at the time called "The Christian Union". Handwriting at the very top of the page reads "Thomas Wentworth Higginson April 17, 1909.", which identifies the date of issue of that particular volume of "The Outlook". The page is from Higgonson's "Article on Our [?] Newport Days".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14675
title: Mission San Juan (Jose), showing decorative entrance, San Antonio, Texas, ca.1900

description: Photograph of Mission San Juan (Jose), showing decorative entrance, San Antonio, Texas, ca.1900. Elaborate stone carvings grace the entrance and the window directly overhead. Most of the decorations are floral, but statues of saints and an angel can be seen around the circular window. Also, a small carving of Mary can be seen above the entrance. The roof is gone. A wooden post and rail fence blocks entry just inside the entry. This was the second mission in San Antonio.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m18110
title: Portrait of Don Ygnacio Palomares, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a portrait of Don Ygnacio Palomares, [s.d.]. Don Palomares, who was granted the northern half of the San Jose Rancho, is pictured here in bust facing straight ahead. His eyes appear to be looking off somewhere rather than straight ahead. His jacket is buttoned high on his chest, and his tie is tucked in to his button-down shirt. His hair is still full and parted on the left side. His lips are thin and narrow. The photonegative suggests that this might in fact be a touched-up photograph.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m18111
title: Portrait of Don Ricardo Vejar, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a portrait of Don Ricardo Vejar, [s.d.]. Don Vejar, who was granted the southern half of the San Jose Rancho, is pictured here in bust, looking directly forward. An oval frame encircles the portrait, with Don Vejar's name inscribed below. He is depicted wearing a dark jacket and dark band around his collar. His hair is full and he has parted it to the left side. Muttonchops grow thickly down either side of his stout face. His eyes are large and almond-shaped.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m18112
title: Portrait of "Spirito" the Indian wife of Miguel Leonies, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of "Spirito" the Indian wife of Miguel Leonis, [s.d.]. Mrs. Leonis is pictured seated in a leather chair with a shawl wrapped around her shoulders and a hat on her head. She looks straight ahead and appears to be elderly. Her hands are folded in her lap, while a desk is visible in the background. The location is possibly the Ranch at Elizabeth Lake at the Las Virgines Ranch in Calabasas, owned by Miguel Leonis.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m910
title: Portrait painting of Bernardo Yorba at over eighty years old, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a portrait painting of Bernardo Yorba at over eighty years old, [s.d.]. Mr. Yorba, the father-in-law to Benito Wilson, is pictured encircled by an oval frame. He wears a kerchief over his head and appears to have buttoned his coat incorrectly. Long muttonchops grow on either side of his face, curving up either side of his chin towards the corners of his mouth. He has large, catlike eyes. He has a relatively unwrinkled face and does not appear as elderly as the picture file card notes him to be.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4667
title: Portrait of Henry Mellus, former mayor of Los Angeles, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a portrait of Henry Mellus, former mayor of Los Angeles, [s.d.]. The portrait appears to be in disrepair, much of its paint seemingly scratched or eroded off, and pictures Mellus in bust. Mr. Mellus' long face, which looks directly at the viewer, appears ghostlike against the rest of his starkly outlined body. A cravat, button-down shirt and vest are visible underneath the coat of the man's suit. His hair is full and parted to the side. The bridge of his nose is long and flat. He came to California in the ship with Richard Dana.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5725
title: Portrait of Anita Mellus Truddel (Anita Johnson?), the wife of Henry Mellus, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Anita Mellus Truddel (Anita Johnson?), the wife of Henry Mellus, [s.d.]. Mrs. Mellus Truddel is pictured in bust, looking straight ahead. She wears a frilled bonnet around her head and a ribbon tied beneath her chin. More lace can be seen around the collar of her darkly-colored dress. She has dark hair that has been parted down the center. Her face is round. She does not appear to be any older than her late twenties.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6712
title: Portrait of Francis Mellus, Sr., the father of Henry Mellus, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a portrait of Francis Mellus, Sr., the father of Henry Mellus, [s.d.]. Mr. Mellus is pictured in bust and is shown in profile. An oval frame encircles the portrait. He faces to the left and shows a strong Romanesque profile, with his limp, straight hair growing long over his ears. He wears a cravat and appears to be wearing a waistcoat as well.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m18113
title: Portrait of Adelaida Johnson Mellus, wife of Francis Mellus, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a portrait of Adelaida Johnson Mellus, wife of Francis Mellus, [s.d.]. Mrs. Mellus is shown here in bust wearing a lacy short-sleeved calico dress that exposes her shoulders. She is facing straight ahead and appears slightly cross-eyed. Her hair, which she wears up, is dark. A pearl necklace hangs around her throat. She appears to be no older than her mid twenties in the portrait. She later became the wife of David Alexander. The portrait is encircled by an oval frame.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14676
title: Mission San Xavier del Bac, showing small Indian structures, Tucson, Arizona, ca.1898-1900

description: Photograph of Mission San Xavier del Bac, showing small Indian structures, Tucson, Arizona, ca.1898-1900. In the extreme foreground at center, scattered weeds and rocks can be seen. In the background at right, the large mission can be seen. Two bell tower structures can be seen adjacent to the facade of the church at left, while a large dome with a cross at its apex can be seen at right. Small rectangular buildings can also be seen at right adjacent to the church. To the far left, several rectangular, stone structures can be seen. Small doorways or windows can be seen on the sides of many of the buildings, and crude wooden structures can be seen adjacent to two of the stone buildings.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4630
title: Exterior view of California State Normal School at 5th Street and Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1885

description: Photograph of exterior view of California State Normal School at 5th Street and Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1885. A two-story brick building with a clock tower in front can be seen at center on top of a grass hill. A short stone wall surrounds the grassy lawn in front of the school, while a pathway and road lead up to the building. The wrought iron gate is open, and several trees and plants can be seen in the yard. Later the site of the Los Angeles Public Library.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13653
title: Portrait of Andrew Glassell, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Andrew Glassell, [s.d.]. He can be seen from chest up with his head turned to the right and his shoulders facing forward. He appears to be thin, and has a white beard and moustache. He can be seen wearing a three-piece suit. The suit includes a bow tie with a tie pin and a high collar. The top button of his vest is undone. Image is visible in a roughly oval exposure.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14677
title: Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the front of the Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona, ca.1900. Two towers flank the main entrance. The one on the left is whiter than the one on the right and has a dome and a cross on top unlike the one on the right. Behind part of the main dome on the church is visible. The surrounding land is barren. No people are in the image.; "Nothing quite like it may be seen in any part of our rather large slice of the North American continent, this annual pilgrimage of the Papago Indians of Arizona to that white shrine in the desert, the mission church of San Xavier del Bac, five miles south of Tucson..." -- newspaper clipping.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14678
title: Exterior view of Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the exterior view of Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona, ca.1900. Two bell towers flank the main entry. The one on the left is stuccoed and has bells in it. The one on the right is bare brick and has no bells in it. Ornate stone carvings surround the entry and the balcony and door immediatly above. Four statues of stone figures are set in the wall around the entry. There are balustrades in front of the three visible second story doors. Bars are in the windows of the two visible first story windows.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2195
title: Panoramic view of Los Angeles from Elysian Park, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles from Elysian Park, [s.d.]. Cleared cropland and the diffuse housing of the city can be seen beyond thick brush that stands in the foreground. What appears to be a single, central road stretches from one side of the panorama to the other, lined on either side by what appear to be telephone poles, while the Los Angeles River  inscribes a semicircle closer to the foreground to the left of the image. Hills and mountains are visible in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m11687
title: Men in a tavern in Southern California, ca.1890-1900

description: Photograph Men in a tavern in Southern California, ca.1890-1900. A group of at least sixteen men can be seen in the saloon. Some are standing at the bar. Some are sitting at two tables. The bartender, behind the bar, is wearing a vest and toasting the camera with a drink in his right hand. A mirror hangs behind the bar. Several pictures hang on the wall. The floor is made of wooden planks. Legible signs include: "Lemp, St. Louis lager beer". Possibly in San Juan Capistrano or Arizona.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14679
title: Interior of Paiute Indian house showing family, Yosemite Valley, ca.1900

description: Photograph of interior of Paiute Indian house showing family, Yosemite Valley, ca.1900. A family of about seven people sits on blankets under a short tent. They have acorns in baskets in front of them for grinding in stone.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6376
title: Exterior view of the Pomona Public Libarary, ca.1900

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Pomona Public Libarary, ca.1900. The one-story romanesque building of library is pictured at center, on the corner and just back from the sidwalk which skirts a wide, unpaved road. Arches seem to be the predominant theme to the building's architecture, adorning both the windows and the main entrance, to which a small set of steps lead, their handrails crested by two miniature wrought-iron street lamps. Just to the left of these steps, a man in a suit can be seen stooping and peering around the wall of the library, as if snooping. Farther left, residential homes can be seen in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6235
title: Exterior view of the Armory in Pomona, which doubled as the headquarters for the Salvation Army and the Second Street Park, ca.1900

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Armory in Pomona, which doubled as the headquarters for the Salvation Army and the Second Street Park, ca.1900. The large, romanesque building is shown at center, visible behind a swath of shrubs in the foreground. The building itself is two stories tall and appears to be shaped very much like a chapel with its high-slung windows and spired roof decorations. Three arches delineate the entrance, while a small pavillion extends from it on either side. Potted plants are visible at the top of the steps leading to the entrance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14680
title: Paiute Indian family before a clump of tall reeds, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a Paiute Indian family before a clump of tall reeds, ca.1900. Two children sit in front of their sitting mother who holds an infant. The father stands to their left. In the background are three other children sitting in a wagon.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6388
title: View of Holt Avenue in Pomona, showing the Elks' Hall, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a view of Holt Avenue in Pomona, showing the Elks' Hall, ca.1900. A line of colonially-inspired homes stands to the right, two to three stories tall, just in from short swaths of front lawns and a narrow but well-kept sidewalk. To the right, palm fronts intrude from just outside the image, obscuring a house veneered with clapboard. Each home appears to feature a circular off-shoot of the sidewalk that leads both to and away from their front steps. To the extreme right, the unpaved road can be seen through a thick line of trees.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6390
title: View along a residential sidewalk in Pomona, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a view along a residential sidewalk in Pomona, ca.1900. At right, the steps and front porch of a home are partially visible behind the trunks of two eucalyptus trees that stand sentry at either side of the home's small patch of front lawn. To the left, the narrow but well-kept strip of the sidewalk can be seen shrinking off towards the distance, the road just barely visible to its left through a line of trees. Farther back from the house in the foreground, the second property appears to be cleared, covered by grass, and surrounded in part by wire fencing.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6380
title: Exterior view of the A.B. Avis residence on  East Holt Avenue in Pomona, ca.1910

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the A.B. Avis residence on  East Holt Avenue in Pomona, ca.1910. The stately, two-story Avis residence appears to be made of adobe, the texture of its facade alluding to spackle, although the combination of the two columns that flank the entrance steps with the terracotta-tiled roof makes the overall architectural style seem more reminiscent of Chinese pagodas. A striped awning hangs from the front of the house and between the two columns, providing shade on the porch. To the left, a large tree can be seen, while the unpaved road can be seen just in front of the sidewalk in the foreground. A second, more modest home can be seen to the right in the background, cutting its silhouette against the shape of the mountain in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m903
title: Exterior view of St. Paul's Episcopal Church at the southeast corner of Figueroa Street and Adams Boulevard, ca.1905

description: Photograph of an exterior view of St. Paul's Episcopal Church at the southeast corner of Figueroa Street and Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1905. At right is a broad covered set of stairs. A tree obscures most of the middle of the building. At left is another smaller set of stairs and a peaked bell tower. A paved walkway through the groomed lawn leads up to the church.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14681
title: Troop "F" of the Kansas Sixth Cavalry stands on huge tree "the fallen monarch" in a Mariposa grove, Yosemite National Park, ca.1900

description: Photograph of Troop "F" of the Kansas Sixth Cavalry stands on and in front of a huge felled tree "the fallen monarch" in a Mariposa grove, Yosemite National Park, ca.1900. There are more than 50 men and horses in the group. The massive tangle of roots (standing about 20 feet high) from the trunk dominate the right foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14682
title: Pima Indian man standing in front of a brush shelter for cooking, ca.1901

description: Photograph of a Pima Indian man standing in front of a brush shelter for cooking, ca.1901. The man can be seen wearing a hat, long-sleeved shirt, pants, and has bare feet. The brush cooking shelter can be seen behind him, while a grass hut is visible at right. A rough wood post and rail fence can be seen at left, while a corner of another hut is visible in the extreme right foreground. Mountains can be seen in the distance beyond a flat expanse of land.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m11419
title: Men playing cards and drinking in the forest, ca.1930

description: Photograph of three men drinking and playing cards in the forest, ca.1930. One is looking at another's cards. Four bottles lay on the ground in front of them. Possibly in Yosemite.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m11420
title: Men playing cards and drinking and one shoots another, ca.1930

description: Photograph of three men drinking and playing cards in the forest, and one shoots another, ca.1930. There are five bottles on the ground in front of them. Possibly in Yosemite. Photoprint reads "Bad whiskey and bad blood".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6650
title: North Beach Bath House and Eckert & Hopf's Restaurant, Santa Monica, ca.1898

description: Photograph of North Beach Bath House and Eckert & Hopf's Restaurant, Santa Monica, ca.1898. The beach is crowded with fully clothed people. Another building is visible in the background. Flags are flying from all towers of both buildings. Legible signs include: "Eckert & Hopf's Restaurant", "Arcadia bath house".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m11421
title: Men who were playing cards and drinking and one has shot another, ca.1930

description: Photograph of three men who were drinking and playing cards in the forest, and one has shot another who is laying on the ground, ca.1930. There are five bottles on the ground in front of them. Possibly in Yosemite.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8436
title: Redlands, view from Smiley Heights, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the view of Redlands, from Smiley Heights, ca.1900. Scrub brush is in the foreground. The image is dominated by many groves (of oranges?). A few buildings are close enough to make out detail on. Many more are in the distant background. The mountains are in the far background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14683
title: The child musical prodigy, Paloma Schramm (Baruch), sitting at the piano in her outdoor studio, Los Angeles, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of the child musical prodigy, Paloma Schramm (Baruch), sitting at the piano in her outdoor studio, south of Jefferson Boulevard, west of Central Avenue, Los Angeles, [s.d.]. Behind the upright piano is a post supporting a huge (ca. 25 feet in diameter) wheel which provides shade(?) over the little girl at the keyboard. A doll's carriage is sitting next to a tree behind her. Another little girl is sitting on a bench in front of her. The area has several shade trees, part of a dwelling can be seen behind.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7917
title: Orchards being irrigated, Riverside, ca.1890-1900

description: Photograph of standing water in a ditch and gullies as a result of irritating in an orange grove, Riverside, ca.1890-1900. A stream of murky water flows across the foreground with mounds of dirt along its far side. Thin streams seep out from the larger one and sits in the grooves of the soil in the groves at center. The thin streams flow between the spaced out rows of small orange trees that continue into the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5861
title: Bathers at Long Beach, ca.1910

description: Photograph of "Children enjoying the beach", ca.1910. Bathers, including dozens of children, cavort in the surf at the shore in Long Beach. Several people are in and around boat on the sand. A pier is visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5808
title: Long Beach Pier and Pavilion showing children digging in the sand, ca.1905

description: Photograph of the Long Beach Pier and Pavilion showing children digging in the sand, ca.1905. About six children can be seen in the left foreground digging in the sand, while a pier can be seen at left. A few small boats can be seen in the ocean waters in the right background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14684
title: Composition room in Chinese newspaper printing office, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of the composition room of a Chinese newspaper printing office, Los Angeles(?), [s.d.]. Two men gather lead type from huge racks in a room lit by three bare lightbulbs.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7784
title: Los Alamitos Sugar Factory. Sugar beet factory, Los Alamitos, California, ca.1910

description: Exterior of a large sugar company in Orange, ca. 1905. Photograph of exterior of a sugar beet factory in Los Alamitos, California, ca.1910. 10 smokestacks rise over the industrial complex. A drainage(?) ditch shored up by wooden beams is visible in the grassy foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12206
title: Part of a flock of Angora goats which are used to "eat out" fire breaks in forest reserves, ca.1915

description: Photograph of part of a flock of Angora goats (about a dozen) which are used to "eat out" fire breaks in forest reserves, ca.1915. They are in a wooden picket pen.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4890
title: Lithograph of a drawing of a LaFayette Hotel with a fort in the background, 1857-1870

description: Photograph of a lithograph of a drawing of a LaFayette Hotel with a fort in the background, 1857-1870. The building with the covered porch in the middle is the "LaFayette Hotel & Restaurant". Two horses, one of which has a rider, are depicted in the street as well as five pedestrians. A taller building can be seen directly behind the hotel, while a hill is depicted in the background at right.; During the 1870's the Lafayette Hotel was considered the best hotel in Los Angeles. It was located on Main Street near Temple Street (later the site of the Federal Building). The building on the hill behind the hotel was built as a jail and later used as a dwelling. (Fred Eaton was born in this dwelling.) The two-story building directly behind the hotel (north) was the first Masonic Lodge, organized as number 42 in 1854. The Odd Fellows Lodge also met there.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8169
title: Riverside panoramic view, ca.1890

description: Photograph of bird's eye view of Riverside, from Mount Rubidoux, ca.1890. Cultivated fields and groves. A few buildings are visible, one in relative foreground. Mountains in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12410
title: Playa del Rey (Venice) oil field, looking north on Pacific Avenue, Los Angeles, March 1, 1930

description: Photograph of a Playa del Rey (Venice) oil field, looking north on Pacific Avenue, Los Angeles, March 1, 1930. Two sets of railcar tracks can be seen to the right of center, moving into the background, while oil derricks bearing the signs "Blueridge Oil Co. Ltd. Daily No. 15" and "Mohawk" stand to either side. A few dozen oil derricks are visible. A sign on one of the buildings to the left of the tracks reads "[...]rs Royalty [...] of 50 Lots".