cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m947
title: Interior of St. Vincent's Catholic Church, ca.1898

description: Photograph of the interior of St. Vincent's Catholic Church, Washington Street and Grand Street, ca.1898. About 30 long rows of shiny wooden pews form an aisle up the center toward the grandiose altar. Two smaller highly ornate altars are at each side. The pulpit is to the left of the main altar. A huge chandelier hangs from the decoratively painted vaulted ceiling.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5155
title: Mount Lowe Railway car rounding Lookout Point, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a Mount Lowe Railway car full of people rounding Lookout Point, with circular bridge in background, [s.d.]. The steep mountainside into which the rail bed is cut is rocky and covered with scrub brush. In the background to the left, a small railway car is visible moving near rocky slope. Several people can be seen on the car. To the left of the car along the track, large poles supporting wires can be seen. Additional poles are visible further in the background at right near a small circular section of track. To the left of the track, a large pole can be seen on the mountainside.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m10097
title: Prune orchard in blossom, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a prune orchard looking down an aisle between rows of prune trees in blossom, [s.d.]. The mountains are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12181
title: Log train loaded with logs for the mill, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a log train loaded with logs for the mill, in a redwood forest, ca.1900. About 10 lumberjacks are standing or sitting on logs or the train. Other logs sit on the ground (foreground). Steam is issuing from the train engine. The thick redwood forest is visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9529
title: Cowboys on horseback at a northern California cattle ranch, ca.1897-1900

description: Photograph of a group of 11 cowboys on horseback (all but 2) at a northern California cattle ranch, ca.1897-1900. Behind them are ranch buildings. A large deciduos tree is directly behind two men on one horse.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7200
title: Front of the Sweetwater Dam and the spillways, San Diego, ca.1890

description: Photograph of the front of the Sweetwater Dam and the spillways, San Diego, ca.1890. A circular building in the water connected to the walkway on top of the dam is visible in the left center of the image. A portion of the reservoir and the mountains behind it are in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12168
title: Logging train loaded with logs, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a logging train loaded with logs for the mill sitting in a clearing in a mountain forest, ca.1900. The engine is hauling at least 6 cars. About a half a dozen men are standing next to or on the train. Steam rises from the boiler of the engine. The fuel box reads "S.L. Co. 2" on the side.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4833
title: St. Vibiana's Church altar boys, Los Angeles, ca.1898-1901

description: Photograph of a group of about twenty-one altar boys and a priest posing in front of the large altar in St. Vibiana's Church, Main Street, Los Angeles, ca.1898-1901. The balustrade and several rows of pews are visible in the foreground. Several statues are situated around the ornately decorated altar.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5409
title: Small group of people picking peas on the Hammel and Denker ranch, Bevery Hills, west of Hollywood, ca.1903

description: Photograph of a group of about 5 people picking peas on the Hammel and Denker ranch, Bevery Hills, west of Hollywood in the winter, ca.1903. Two people are in a horse-drawn carriage in the pea field. The Hollywood Hills rise in the background. A few farm buildings are visible in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m19084
title: Ruins of Chinese houses and a cemetery in Mormon Bar, Mariposa, ca.1930

description: Photograph of Chinese houses and a cemetery in Mormon Bar, Mariposa, ca.1930. A partial wall of an adobe house stands center. The wall is much taller than the women with arms at her sides who stands to the left looking at the ruins. Just behind her a wire fence with wooden posts can be seen with what appears to be the ruins of several connected adobe walls sitting in front of the backdrop of trees. These walls seemed to be filed down to no more than a few feet high. They are barely taller than the tall grass and weeds that surround them. More trees cover the hills in the distance.; Picture file card reads "Ruins of adobe houses of Chinese who had their homes apart from the other settlers of Mormon Bar. 'All Chinese bones have been removed and sent to China for burial'".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m19085
title: Exterior view of Mormon Bar Store in Mariposa, ca.1930

description: Photograph of the Mormon Bar Store in Mariposa, ca.1930. The front door of the store can be seen to the left under the shade of the porch awning with the name printed in lightly-colored letters on the wood-paneled wall above. Two windows as well as several fliers can be seen on either side of the door while a gas pump sits on the left. The store extends to the left with a lightly-colored roof and an abutting shed on the side. Barrels and boxes are stacked against the shed with a tree just beside them. Trees serve as a wall between the store and a second building on the right.; Picture file card reads "Mormon Bar was named after Frank Mormon who had a camp where the store and other buildings now stand. Gold was first discovered just across the street, opposite the building on the right. The building dates from 1854. Presently, the store is Carl Fines Saloon, Grocery store and gas station. The old bar is still there".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13974
title: View of Robinson's Ferry landing at the Stanislaus River in Melones, ca.1930

description: Photograph of a view of Robinson's Ferry landing at the Stanislaus River in Melones, ca.1930. A wooden bridge extends from the dirt bank in the foreground to the other side of the riverbed. At the edge of the plank in center a staircase leads down to the ground through a wooden frame. At the bottom of the stairs there is a small trail of sunshine that is allowed through the shade that the tall trees on the right provide. A bend of the river can be seen on the left with banks of dirt and weeds. A hillside covered in trees and bushes can be seen in the background. "Ferry began operation in 1849 but is no longer used as the river has changed its course and a bridge has been built".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m20647
title: View of the new bridge across the Stanislaus River for the mother lode highway at the site of the old Robinson's Ferry crossing of 1849, Melones, ca.1930

description: Photograph of a view of the new bridge across the Stanislaus River for the mother lode highway at the site of the old Robinson's Ferry crossing of 1849, Melones, ca.1930. The bridge is level on top with many trees on the bank behind, while arches comprise the bottom of the bridge that extends over the river. The banks are rocky with weeds scattered in the dirt while the water in the river barely ripples.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14008
title: Merced River gold dredger in Merced Falls, ca.1930

description: Photograph of a Merced River gold dredger in Merced Falls, ca.1930. The dredger stands in the water at center, shooting water out of the left side. The mechanism appears to be several incorporated buildings with large appendages reaching out from each side and on top. Rocky banks with a background of trees can be seen on the right while what appears to be grassy swamp land sits on the left. A bank, seen in front, separates the swamp from the calm water in the foreground.; Picture file card reads "Great gold dredger on Upper Merced River working gold bearing gravel. These boats worked twenty-four hours non-stop and employed as many as thirty-three men. Some of these dredgers cost as much as four thousand dollars -- using a six hundred horsepower motor. This dredge is forty feet by fifty feet in size".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m15290
title: Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce exhibit of large fruits and vegetables, ca.1902

description: Photograph of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce exhibit of a collection of large fruits and vegetables ("Pomona Tower of Fruits and Vegetables"?) at the chamber exhibit room, ca.1902. A man in a 3-piece suit and a top hat stands in front of the pile with his right hand on a very long cucumber(?) with foot markings on it from 1 through 6 feet. Also included are pumpkins, various squash, corn, potatoes, etc. The man has been identified as a "midget". The background has been masked away so that only the exhibit itself is in the image.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m19072
title: View looking down an unidentified road past the El Dorado Hills Hotel, ca.1930

description: Photograph of a view looking down an unidentified road past the El Dorado Hills Hotel, ca.1930. The three-story hotel is pictured on the right side of the street, jacketed in clapboard siding. The first two floors each feature an awning which extends over the windows and doors. To the right, a ditch can be seen in the foreground, while an automobile can be seen farther away. A long arrow can be seen painted on the narrow, paved road at center.; Old Hills Hotel built 1852. El Dorado Bar on the corner -- almost deserted today -- El Dorado once had a population of many thousand and was an incorporated city.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m19073
title: Ruins of the Wells Fargo bank in El Dorado, ca.1930 (1852?)

description: Photograph of the ruins of the Wells Fargo bank in El Dorado, ca.1930 (1852?). A squat, brick building is pictured at center, just in from a patch of dirt road. Two sets of iron doors are pictured, the leftmost open. Weeds have grown thick around the stoop of the building, and cuts of brick are missing from the wall that separates the two sets of doors. The picture file card identifies the illegible sign at left as warning relic hunters to keep away.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m19074
title: Last ruins of the business section of El Dorado, ca.1930

description: Photograph of the last ruins of the business section of El Dorado, ca.1930. Three flat-faced commercial buildings are pictured just in from the road that cuts across the image from the bottom left to the center right. The buildings -- the leftmost two made of brick -- ascend in height as they progress towards the right. The backs or roofs appear to have collapsed as light can be seen trickling through their glassless windows.; Picture file card reads: "The last of the crumbling ruins of the great and famous mining town of El Dorado that started as a camp, grew to be an incorporated city of many thousands in population and dwindled to a garage, a church and two or three dwellings".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14047
title: Buildings along a dirt road in Chinese Camp, California, ca.1930

description: Photograph of buildings along a dirt road in Chinese Camp, California, ca.1930. The narrow dirt road is pictured at center, bending into the image from a gradual incline to the left. To the right, two-story saloon-style buildings line the street, their facades masking incongruous architecture that stands behind them. Smaller, shack-like buildings are visible just behind tree foliage to the left. Back of photoprint reads: "Chinese Camp -- today it resembles a peaceful village -- which it is. Today not a Chinese could be found -- at one time the Chinese population was estimated at five thousand".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m20038
title: Exterior view of a deserted church in Chinese Camp, ca.1930

description: Photograph of an exterior view of a deserted church in Chinese Camp, ca.1930. The "deserted church stands on top of the hill in back of the town" raised on a concrete platform. The arched doorway stands in a wall of horizontal wood paneling. The pointed steeple stands at the front of the roof overlooking the surrounding trees. Several arched windows view a white, stone marker which sits to the left of the church and presents a thick cross. An intricate metal fence contains a small yard to the left of the church, just behind the stone marker. The church was built in 1870.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14160
title: Exterior view of the old school house at Chinese Camp, Tuolumne County, ca.1900-1940

description: Photograph of the old school house at Chinese Camp, Tuolumne County, ca.1900-1940. A staircase on the right leads to a small, covered porch that extends to the entrance to the school house which is "still in use". The roof is smooth and inclined, while the building is composed of horizontal planks. What appears to be an exhaust pipe extends out of one of the several windows on the side of the building. A dark stain can be seen on the wall just above it while a small, boarded shed sits at left. A hill is visible in the left background while trees are visible in the right background.; Picture file card reads "To the right, the wavy appearance of the ground shows where the early miners worked the ground around the school house until they reached the cemetery on the right side. Gold was found her in 1856".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13963
title: Amador Street scene near the Keystone Mine, ca.1930

description: Photograph of an Amador Street scene near the Keystone Mine, ca.1930. Dilapidated buildings are visible to the left and right, each with covered, elevated sidewalks. A gas pump is visible on the edge of the sidewalk on the right with a shell on top reading "Shell", while a telephone pole is visible at the end of the sidewalk. The walls on the buildings on the left are covered in circus posters. A paved road is visible from the bottom running up the center and curving to the right. An automobile is parked to the right of the road past the buildings, while a large multiple-story mining building is visible at center and to the left of the building. Broken windows are visible on the mining building, while tall grass and trees are visible in the background.; Photoprint reads: "Amador Street scene - In center distance the Keystone Mine - discovered 1850 - operated for 59 years - until 1909 - when it was closed down. Machinery was left in place until 1933 - when another effort was made to discover values. This failed and machinery was removed. This was the one big mine of Amador. When this closed, most of the town moved away. Today circus posters cover some of the walls".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m20040
title: Old Knights of Pythies Hall in Amador City, ca.1930

description: Photograph of the old Knights of Pythies Hall in Amador City, ca.1930. At center a building that is at least two stories tall is visible on the side of a slope. Four windows, two per story, are visible on the front-facing wall. The two windows on the top story have shutters, while two additional windows are visible on the right wall. Two doors are visible on the right wall, and the building has a sloped roof. A dirt road runs from bottom center to the bottom right in front of the building. Trees and hills are visible in the background. Photoprint reads: "Amador City - The old Knights of Pythies Hall is on a slope overlooking the town. The road leads to Dog Town - note the green window shutters. This was before the days of roller shades".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m20041
title: View of an unidentified street in Amador, showing the Imperial Hotel and American Mercantile Company, ca.1930

description: Photograph of a view of an unidentified street in Amador, showing the Imperial Hotel and American Mercantile Company, ca.1930. Two long, squat buildings are shown behind trees along the left side of the street the cuts across the image in the foreground: the leftmost building is the Imperial Hotel and brandishes its name in a display window on the first floor. Farther down and separated from the hotel by a section of picket fence, the American Mercantile Company Building can be seen, its second-floor balcony jutting past the tree foliage. The American Mercantile Company was operated by Chieizola Julius in 1850. The Imperial Hotel at left was built in 1852.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14039
title: Exterior view of The Cramer Hotel in Santa Cruz County, Felton, ca.1930

description: Photograph of an exterior view of The Cramer Hotel in Santa Cruz County, Felton, ca.1930. The large building is visible covered with lightly-colored  wooden paneling and both of the two stories are contained by what appear to be white picket fences. The windows on the front porch of the house  overlook two trees that stand taller than the house while the windows of an adjacent side of the house overlook  a "Rabbits for sale" sign. In the foreground an automobile can be seen parked on the far left parked along a road just outside the front of the house.; Photo file card reads "The Cramer house in Felton is said to have been built in 1858 and was the main boarding house in the area used by loggers and teamsters. Prior to the 1920's the lower right section of the building was operated as a bee farm. This picture was taken in the late thirties when it was owned by B.N. Melson and operated as an apartment house. Note the concrete watering trough in front which was one of the few in the valley not made of wood. In the early forties the lower left of the building was a drug store and the lower right was a gift shop and the upper floor remained apartments. During the sixties present owner Roy Pagnini converted the lower floor into a beauty shot and restaurant which are currently occupied by A Villa of Beauty and Heavenly Hamburger".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9434
title: Two men standing in front of a wild olive tree in a wild olive grove, Palmdale, California, 1897

description: Photograph of two men standing in front of a wild olive tree in a wild olive grove, Palmdale, California, 1897. The man on the left is wearing leggings. The man on the right is gesturing toward the tree. Both have their backs to the camera.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m19065
title: View of an unidentified dirt road in Coulterville, ca.1930

description: Photograph of a view of an unidentified dirt road in Coulterville, ca.1930. The wide dirt road wends from the center foreground into the background where a tree-dappled hill can be seen. Spaced irregularly to either side of the road, small buildings can be seen, suggestive of a boomtown. To the right, a one-story brick building has its doors partially boarded-up. Farther in to the left, a building that appears to be a stable or blacksmith's shop can be seen, while the tallest building is visible to the right, a saloon-style facade attached to its front. Just near this, two parked automobiles can be seen.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m19066
title: Porch of the old John Thompson Hotel, Coulterville, ca.1930

description: Photograph of the porch of the old John Thompson Hotel, Coulterville, ca.1930. The paved sidewalk lies at center and is shaded by the canopy above and the trees that line the street on the left. The poles that support the canopy of the porch are intricately carved towards their tops. A lightly-colored bench can be seen in the foreground on the right while several chairs and a wooden bench sit further down on the sidewalk. What appears to be a birdcage hangs from a tree on the left and a garage with gas pumps can be seem in the background behind the tree.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14000
title: Exterior view of an old church in Hornitos, Mariposa County, ca.1930

description: Photograph of an exterior view of an old church in Hornitos, Mariposa County, ca.1930. The lightly-colored wooden church sits on a foundation of brick with four brick pillars on each side. A Lightly-colored double door can be seen at center with a small window just above and a bell tower on the roof with a thin cross on top. A graveyard can be seen in the background amongst trees while a metal fence sits in the foreground lined with grass and weeds.; Photo print reads "Bright with new paint and with new repairs the old church sits on top of a hill overlooking the town. In back is the graveyards. Some claim the church was built in 1861. Others think it was in 1868. It was painted and repaired in 1935 and probably is good for another seventy years".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m20051
title: Exterior view of Hornitos Lodge Number 98 in Mariposa County, ca.1930

description: Photograph of an exterior view of Hornitos Lodge Number 98 in Mariposa County, ca.1930. The lodge, erected in 1860, appears to be made of stone with two sets of double doors in the front wall. The sign hangs over an awning and a wooden fence extends from the right side to the Masonic building on the right. A person stand outside the two-story, brick building under a shingled awning. "The upstairs is a hotel, the lower is a fire department". Several other structures can be seen further down the road while several trees stand in the background on the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m20050
title: View of an unidentified alley in Hornitos, ca.1930

description: Photograph of a view of an unidentified alley in Hornitos, ca.1930. A narrow dirt road is pictured, a nearly-solid wall of brick building standing to the right of it. To the left, a lone brick building is shown partially collapsed. Farther in to the right, a group of three men can be seen loitering along the building's edge. Shrub-dappled hills are visible in the background.; "The town was started by the Mexicans in the 1850's. Ruins of Ghiardelli's original chocolate factory are located on the right (left?). Next door was the Gold Bar Saloon".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m20045
title: One-cell jail in Hornitos, with man, ca.1930

description: Photograph of the one-cell jail in Hornitos, ca.1930. An equilateral stone building is pictured at center, a man leaning his arm at the edge of the single door, which appears to be open. The roof appears to be made of wood and corrugated tin, and its relation to the main structure is reminscent of a Greek Revival style of architecture. Rolling, shrub-dappled hills are visible in the background.; "History says that a Chinese prisoner was hung inside the jail by lynchers who passed a rope through the window to the crowd outside".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m20661
title: Ruins of the Ghiradelli chocolate company in Hornitos, ca.1930

description: Photograph of the ruins of the Ghiradelli chocolate company in Hornitos, ca.1930. A pile of dirt now stands with discolored, incomplete brick walls around it. A tree drapes over a destroyed wall on the left with what appears to be a damaged pole standing in front. A standing structure can be seen in the background on the left.; Picture file card reads "Ruins of the Ghiradelli chocolate company marked with a bronze tablet: 'In 1852, D. Ghiradelli and Company operated this store, now owned by the D. Ghiradelli Chocolate and Cocoa since 1862'".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m20047
title: Exterior view of two buildings in Hornitos, ca.1930

description: Photograph of exterior view of two buildings in Hornitos, Mariposa, ca.1930. On the left the old Gold Bar Saloon sits with two small, wooden staircases out front leading to the wooden double doors. A small awning with a sign hanging down extends from several feet below the structure's top. An office of the Native Sons of the Golden West sits on the right with two iron doors on the front. The lightly-colored building stands shorter than the saloon with the letters "N.S.G.W." printed across the top. What appear to be the remains of brick walls can be seen in the background on the far left. The building owned by the Native Sons of the Golden West was once the office of Wells Fargo in 1854.