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DOI: 10.25549/chs-m323
title: Carriages and street cars moving west along Sunset Boulevard on Tunnel Day, Los Angeles, September 15, 1909

description: Photograph of carriages and street cars moving west along Sunset Boulevard on Tunnel Day, Los Angeles, September 15, 1909. Four horse-drawn carriages are pictured to the left of the unpaved road while an automobile and a streetcar are pictured making their way down the road in the right background. Utility poles line it to either side in through the center. Hills are visible in the background.; Picture file card reads "Before the tunnels, the electric line operated to Hollywood via Spring Street, Main Street and the Plaza, but with the arrival of the tunnels this changed. Also, the gauge was broadened. The view is looking east of Vendom [?]. Sunset swings to the left behind the hill where the new Silver Lake crossing bridge is now being built.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1263
title: Exterior view of the Hollenbeck Hotel at the intersection of Second Street and Spring Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Hollenbeck Hotel at the intersection of Second Street and Spring Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905. Streetcars are pictured making their way down either side of the three-story Romanesque hotel, which is pictured on the corner at center. Pedestrians, including a man riding a strange, bicycle-like contraption can be seen navigating the sidewalks. The column of a larger building is visible in the right foreground. The signs on the streetcars read "Hollywood", "Griffin Ave.", "Redondo", and "2nd & Spring Streets". Other legible signs from left to right include "Orpheum / Marceau Fotografer.", "Hoffman", "Magun Cigar", "S. Conradi", "Whedon", "Deans S. Right / Gen. Arthur Cigar", "M.K. Young", "Dr. Corbin", "Dr. Rowell" and "Bank".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m81
title: View of Broadway looking north from Second Street, showing the Chamber of Commerce building, Los Angeles, ca.1911

description: Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from Second Street, showing the Chamber of Commerce building, Los Angeles, ca.1911. Streetcars and automobiles are pictured at center, making their way down the street, while high rise buildings line the sidewalks to either side. The seven-story Chamber of Commerce building is pictured to the right, in from a smaller, three-story building. Striped cloth canopies extend from the first floors of many of the buildings.; Legible signs include: "Dr. Numbers, Dentist", "[Ma]rtindale & Son", "Thorpe Office Building", "Medford Rog[...]", "Rooms", "Cut Rate Discount", "Chamber of Commerce / Free Exhibit of California Products / Free Stereopticon Lectures Daily / Everybody Welcome", "Dalton Adding Machine Co.", and "[...] Clothing and Joggery Shop for Men".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2945
title: Portrait of miners in the 2,200 level of the Empire Mine, Grass Valley, prior to 1906

description: Photographic portrait of miners in the 2,200 level of the Empire Mine, Grass Valley, prior to 1906. Two miners are pictured: one is seated at center, to the right of a large electrical array installed in the mine wall, in which a callbox is visible. The second leans against mining equipment to the right. Pipes and wires hang over them.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14672
title: Mission San Francisco de la Espano from the rear, San Antonio, Texas, ca.1898

description: Photograph of Mission San Francisco de la Espano from the rear, San Antonio, Texas, ca.1898. The roof of the ruined mission has completely deteriorated and fallen in. A pile of rubble lays against one wall. Low trees devoid of foliage and scrub grass are the only vegetation in the vicinity. This was the third mission in San Antonio.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2949
title: View of Pasadena Avenue looking north in Highland Park, ca.1910

description: Photograph of a view of Pasadena Avenue looking north in Highland Park, ca.1910. A streetcar is pictured at center, making its way down the unpaved street. Victorian-style residential homes stand along the sidewalk to either side, along with utility poles. Most of the houses are two-story.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1869
title: Exterior view of the Los Angeles County Courthouse and Jail on Temple Street, ca.1904

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Los Angeles County Courthouse and Jail on Temple Street, ca.1904. The tall, four-story gothic building stands on a hill at center, a long set of steps leading up to its entrance. The bell tower can be seen protruding at center, over the roofs of the other parts of the building. Below, several horse-drawn carriages are parked along the sidewalk by the brick wall that surrounds the hill. Immediately to the left of the Court House, the Los Angeles County Jail can be seen (it was replaced with a newer jail, built 1903 on the north-east corner of Temple and Buena Vista Streets). In the middle, at right, the Aberdeen Hotel is visible located at the north-west corner of Temple Street and Broadway. The Women's Christian Temperance Union Building (built in 1889) can be seen across Broadway from Aberdeen Hotel. More buildings are visible in the extreme background. Picture file card reads "(Pasadena)".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2946
title: Cereus gigantia cactus in the Arizona desert, 1915-1925

description: Photograph of a Cereus gigantia cactus in the Arizona desert, 1915-1925. A tall cactus is pictured standing like a tree at center. Its long, branchless stalk terminates with a collection of twisted, billowing branches at top. Desert terrain is visible behind it.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13796
title: Portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt in hunting attire astride a horse, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt in hunting attire astride a horse, [s.d.]. President Roosevelt sits astride a white horse facing left, dressed in a long coat and holding a rifle in his left hand and his horse's reins with his right. Ammunition is laced into his gun belt, and his hat casts a shadow that obscures the upper part of his face. A barbed-wire fence and a mountainside are visible behind him.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m18105
title: Exterior view of the home of Don Juan Forster at the Mission San Juan Capistrano, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the home of Don Juan Forster at the Mission San Juan Capistrano, [s.d.]. The adobe building is shown at center, in disrepair. Its bricks are showing on its narrow side to the right, along with its loose wooden roof tiles. The eave of the roof hangs over to the left, shading the entrance, whose door and windows appear boarded-up. Farther to the left, a white, more heavily spackled portion of the adobe is visible.  Mr. Forster bought the property from the mission. He was born in 1815, in Liverpool, England, a child from a very unpretentious family who grew up to become one of the largest landowners in all of California.; Picture file card reads: "Left to right: 1. Canedo Adobe 1794 (white portion); 2. Tomas Ramos Adobe--1852; 3. Ruined North wall of Miguel Verdugo Adobe. Together these form the only remnants of a long line of joined adobe houses on the east side of the old Camino Real through San Juan.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m18106
title: Ruins of the Chapel San Pedro at Los Flores Ranch in Orange County, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the ruins of the Chapel San Pedro at Los Flores Ranch in Orange County, ca.1900. The remains, seen from the Mission San Luis Rey de Espana, are pictured here simply as the remains of crumbled adobe walls. Five sections are visible, beginning farthest in the foreground to the right, moving into the background as they approach the left. Hills are faintly visible in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5337
title: Exterior view of an Old Roadhouse stage station in Antelope Valley, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of an exterior view of an Old Roadhouse stage station in Antelope Valley, [s.d.]. The two-story adobe is pictured to the left of center, an early automobile visible to the right in front of a garage. The second story of the home is sided with clapboard and shows a gingerbread pattern at the very peak. A man is visible standing next to a tree in front of the garage at right. The house is located six miles west of Lancaster.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5335
title: Exterior view of an adobe at La Liebre Ranch (once Beale Ranch) on the west end of Antelope Valley, 1932

description: Photograph of an exterior view of an adobe at La Liebre Ranch (once Beale Ranch) on the west end of Antelope Valley, 1932. The long, one-story adobe is pictured to the right, showing two doors separated by a set of two windows and flanked by a window to either side. Chickenwire and a clutter of debris is pictured to the right. A tree is visible in the left background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13564
title: Portrait of Mrs. Paul de Longpre, ca.1908

description: Photographic portrait of Mrs. Paul de Longpre, Hollywood, ca.1908. Mrs. de Longpre is pictured in bust facing straight ahead. Diaphanous edging is visible at the collar of her dress. She wears her dark hair up, while her lips appear slightly parted as if to say something. Her head is cocked back from her shoulders as though she is shying away from something. She appears no older than middle age.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6711
title: Exterior view of the Rubottom Hotel and Stage Station, showing bystanders, Spadra, 1867

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Rubottom Hotel and Stage Station, showing bystanders, Spadra, 1867. A collection of eighteen bystanders are pictured on the porch and along the front fence of the one-story adobe stage station shown at center. A small boy is pictured at center holding an adult man's hand at center, out from the fence. Picture file card identifies the persons pictured from left to right: "Lugo--on white horse, Hostle, Hostler, Ex-Governor Drew's Son, Little Billy Rubottom, Wm. Rubottom --owner, Ex-Governor Drew of Arkansas, John Shropshire, Geo. Cummings, Joe Dye, [unidentified], Jim Rubottom, Frankie Stockton, Mrs. Whiteside and her baby, Nigger George, Mrs. Currier and Inez.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14673
title: Mission San Francisco de la Espano from the rear at a distance, San Antonio, Texas, ca.1898

description: Photograph Mission San Francisco de la Espano from the rear at a distance, San Antonio, Texas, ca.1898. The roof of the mission has completely fallen in. Small, deteriorated walls can be seen at right. Small entryways are also visible with small amounts of rubble partially obstructing them. At left, the side of the bell tower on the church is visible in the background. Low trees devoid of foliage and scrub grass are the only vegetation in the vicinity. This was the third mission in San Antonio.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6714
title: Portrait of students posed outside the Spadra School, 1867

description: Photographic portrait of students posed outside the Spadra School, 1867. A tall, two-story clapboard-sided building is pictured at center with thirty-six students of various ages and two adults standing on or near its steps. The older students stand on the top step, and appear to be roughly five years older than the younger, pre-pubescent students that sit on the steps below them, of which the girls appear to be separated to the left, the boys to the right. A man with moustache leans against the banister to the far left, while a second moustached man is pictured at the top of the steps, also to the left. The school features two main doors separated by two windows. Four windows are visible on the top floor.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m876
title: Exterior view of the (El Monte?) First Baptist Church in Southern California, Pomona, 1880-1910

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the (El Monte?) First Baptist Church in Southern California, Pomona, 1880-1910. A two-story clapboard-sided building is pictured at center, featuring a single set of double doors on the first floor with two windows above on the second floor. Lettering above the door identifies the church and 1853, the year it was founded. Farther up, a sign also identifies the building as the hall for the Lexington Masons #104, which was founded May 16 of an indeterminate year.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3030
title: Lithograph published by A.L. Bancroft depicting the bay of San Diego, 1873

description: Photograph of a lithograph published by A.L. Bancroft depicting the bay of San Diego, 1873. A steam boat is pictured in the water to the left, while sailing vessels make their way around the bay at center and in the right distance. The wharf and the buildings of the town are visible in the background, along with mountains. The caption beneath the image reads "Terminus of the Texas Pacific Railway. From the Peninsula Looking East Across the Bay" as well as a short paragraph describing the bay's depth and the city's important figures of the time.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13270
title: Pioneer Monument at the entrance to Devore Canyon on the Sycamore Valley Ranch, 1915

description: Photograph of Pioneer Monument at the entrance to Devore Canyon on the Sycamore Valley Ranch, 1915. A tall monolith stands at the foot of a hill at center, with a plaque affixed to its front. A similarly-designed sign pointing to the monument stands a little farther in the foreground to the right. The text on the plaque reads "Sycamore Valley Ranch. / Formerly Called Sycamore Grove / First camp of the pioneers / June 1851 / Capt. Jefferson Hunt, Amasa Lyman, Charles C. Rich, David Seely, Andrew Lytle.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5323
title: Exterior view of the stone tavern at the entrance to Devore Canyon, Cajon Pass, ca.1884

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the stone tavern at the entrance to Devore Canyon, Cajon Pass, ca.1884. The building which also served as a stage station, saloon and hotel, is pictured at center with two-stories and a multileveled roof. A woman stands on the patio, in the process of opening the front door. A gas or propane tank can be seen in front of the house to the right, in front of a picket fence. A ladder leans up against the left wall of the house. Debris and lumber are scattered in the front yard. Trees can be seen in the background.; Picture file card reads: "The tavern consisted of two floors--two rooms on the ground floor and one room on the second story. On the lower floor, the left side was a saloon, while the right side was a store and stage depot. Its history can be traced back to 1854. The present occupants are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Meddoc and their daughter. They have been occupant there since 1906. Main walls on the ground floor are 2 1/2 ' thick.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12606
title: Clay Street Hill Railroad streetcar on the corner of Clay Street and Kearney Street with passengers, San Francisco, 1873

description: Photograph of a Clay Street Hill Railroad streetcar on the corner of Clay Street and Kearney Street with passengers, San Francisco, 1873. The streetcar is pictured at center, full of passengers, on the first cable-car line ever built. Two men in suits stand to the right of it on the ground. A two-story building and wrought-iron fence are visible in the background. The ground appears unpaved. Several of the passengers are dressed very formally. Picture file card reads "Sitting on the front seat center, Mr. A.S. Hallidi(e?), the originator and builder of the first cable RR. His wife is seated next to him". Photoprint reads: "The first cable car in the world".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m11862
title: Photomontage of six old-time carriages, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a photomontage of six old-time carriages, ca.1900. Six numbered photographs of unhitched horse-drawn carriages are shown, arranged with four at the corners of the image and two askew at center. The top leftmost carriage has a covered cabin, along with the bottom center and bottom right. The other carriages are topless. All carriages are shown in profile. Compare to: CHS-7977. Photo shows carriages and continues numbering from 7 to 12.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m11863
title: Photomontage of six old-time carriages, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a photomontage of six old-time carriages, ca.1900. Six photographs of unhitched horse-drawn carriages are shown, numbered from 7 to 12 and arranged with four photos at the corners of the image and two at center. Of the carriages only the top center carriage features a covered cabin. The rest are open-air. Compare to: CHS-7977. Photo shows carriages numbered 1-6.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12313
title: Los Angeles County Railroad engine Ivanhoe stopped at Sister's Hospital on Sunset Boulevard, ca.1887

description: Photograph of the Los Angeles County Railroad engine Ivanhoe stopped at Sister's Hospital on Sunset Boulevard, ca.1887. The engine is shown facing left with its passenger car trailing it to the right. At center, people are boarding at the gap between the engine and the car. Two women in long dresses stand on the ground in front of the train, their dog between them. The leftmost woman holds a parasol, next to a man who is leaning on the engine. The conductor, Charles Prudhomme, is visible behind them. Men can be seen at the front of the passenger car, as well as the back of the engine. A mansion can be seen on the hill in the background. A second rail car is visible to the left behind the Ivanhoe.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14674
title: Mission San Francisco de la Espano from behind the bell tower, San Antonio, Texas, ca.1898

description: Photograph of Mission San Francisco de la Espano from behind the bell tower, San Antonio, Texas, ca.1898. In the background at center, part of the ruined chapel is visible. A large brick wall is visible with small windows along its side, and part of the large bell tower can be seen in the extreme background at left. A wooden post and rail fence is seen in the foreground at right. Low trees devoid of foliage and scrub grass are the only vegetation in the vicinity. This was the third mission in San Antonio.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6490
title: View of Redondo Beach harbor, showing the British ship Kirkcudbrightshire and five other ships waiting to dock, ca.1895

description: Photograph of a view of Redondo Beach harbor, showing the British ship Kirkcudbrightshire and five other ships waiting to dock, ca.1895. Three, tall-masted ships are visible to the right beyond the surf, at varying distances from the camera. A fourth ship is already docked along the wharf to the left, behind which the fifth ship can be seen. In the foreground, railroad tracks can be seen on the shore with debris.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7954
title: Drawing by Henry Chapman Ford, depicting an exterior view of the Mission San Gabriel, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a drawing by Henry Chapman Ford, depicting an exterior view of the Mission San Gabriel, ca.1900. The mission's thing two-story adobe wall is pictured, the steps leading to the entrance on the second floor visible to the right. Column-like ridges are spaced at regular intervals along the wall, apparently for structural support. One arched doorway is visible a little in from the steps, while a second is visible to the far left under the mission's bells, which are situated in portholes along the wall. The terracotta-tiled roof of the mission's cloister are visible attached to the wall to the far left. Trees stand in front. Mountains can be seen in the right background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5361
title: Drawing of the Mission Carmel interior as it was in 1870, sketched by Henry Chapman Ford in 1888.

description: Photograph of a drawing of the Mission Carmel interior as it was in 1870, sketched by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1888. The drawing depicts the opening to a ruined mission, with an arched doorway leading into a barren interior and broken roof. Planks hang askew from the ceiling, and grass paves the foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6616
title: View of the palisade cliffs and Santa Monica beach, showing the Hotel Arcadia in the background, ca.1898

description: Photograph of a view of the palisade cliffs and Santa Monica beach, showing the Hotel Arcadia in the background, ca.1898. The palisades are prominently visible in the foreground, dropping off to the beach below. Farther back, the wharf is visible extending out into the ocean with the Hotel Arcadia behind it. Trees line the left side of the photo, back from the cliffs.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6617
title: Palisade cliffs leading down to beach houses along the shore in Santa Monica, ca.1898

description: Photograph of the palisade cliffs leading down to beach houses along the shore in Santa Monica, ca.1898. The cliffs are visible to the left, steps leading down from their rock faces to the wooden shacks that line the beach back from the water line. In the distance to the left, the wharf can be seen extending out into the water with the Hotel Arcadia in the background behind it.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m18107
title: Los Angeles City Electric Railroad car at the Marlborough School at 23rd Street and Scarff Street, ca.1894

description: Photograph of a Los Angeles City Electric Railroad car at the Marlborough School at 23rd Street and Scarff Street, ca.1894. One of two conductors stands at center in front of the car, while the second is positioned on the running boards to the left, next to a seated woman. More passengers, two women and a little girl, are picture on the cars open-air bench to the right. Three out of the five shades are pulled down at center in the covered cabin of the streetcar. The roof of a building can be seen behind the trees in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12580
title: Streetcars and spectators on the First Street Bridge during the opening of the cable railway to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, August 1, 1889

description: Photograph of streetcars and spectators on the First Street Bridge during the opening of the cable railway to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, August 1, 1889. Two men in the foreground are pictured walking away on the plank bridge from the two streetcars behind them. Passengers are packed into the American-flag decorated cars, while others sit on and along a chain link fence to the left. A horse-drawn carriage makes its way down the bridge towards the camera in the right background. Horse droppings can be seen to the left on the bridge. A caption below the image identifies the cause for celebration.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m18108
title: Celebrators and streetcars during the opening of the Pico Heights Electric Railway, 1887

description: Photograph of celebrators and streetcars during the opening of the Pico Heights Electric Railway, the first electric railroad from Plaza to Pico Heights, 1887. Men and young boys dressed in suits pose in front of two open-air streetcars, an open field visible behind them. The cars, whose sides read "Plaza, Pico Street, Pico Heights" were the part of the first electric railroad. The engine car for the streetcars and a horse-drawn carriage can be seen to the far right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12471
title: Celebrators and streetcars during the opening of the Pico Heights Electric Railway, 1887

description: Photograph of celebrators and streetcars during the opening of the Pico Heights Electric Railway, 1887. A large group of men in suits congregate in front of two sets of cable cars, each of which is positioned on its own track. The signs on the cars read "Plaza, Pico Street, Pico Heights" and feature candy-striped canvas flaps along the sides that have been pulled back and tied to the streetcars' railings. The ground in front is unpaved.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12448
title: Los Angeles' first electric railroad from Plaza to Pico Heights, 1887

description: Photograph of an open-air car on the first electric railroad in Los Angeles from the Plaza to Pico Heights in 1887. Many men in fine suits and just several women in fine dresses pose in front of an open-air rail car at center. The cars whose sides read "Plaza, Pico Street, Pico Heights" are attached to wires that run above it. The ground around them is dusty and spotted with weeds.