cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1028
title: Hill being removed at the intersection of East Third Street and Beacon Street in San Pedro, Los Angeles, ca.1920

description: Photograph of a hill being removed at the intersection of East Third Street and Beacon Street in San Pedro, Los Angeles, ca.1920. A mobile crane is parked at the foot of the hill, which has been made into a sort of cube by excavation and soil removal. The commercial area of the town is visible along the paved roads and sidewalks behind the hill to the left and right, where the Seaman's Institute and Hendry Co. Supply Store can be seen. Earlier record file describes the area as the Port of Los Angeles.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4543
title: Exterior view of the San Pedro (formerly the "Clarence") Hotel, Los Angeles, ca.1903

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the San Pedro (formerly the "Clarence") Hotel, Los Angeles, ca.1903. A plank walkway leads from the left through overgrown grass to the porch of the two-story hotel, where three men can be seen lounging on the porch. A balcony above provides shade for them. The hotel is veneered with clapboard, and features a scalloped gingerbread pattern at its topmost peak. A smaller portion of the building to the left stands perpenicular to the longer portion, along which doors are spaced at regular intervals.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14637
title: Sheep wash place at Guajome Ranch, with a fence in the background, ca.1898-1901

description: Photograph of sheep wash place at Guajome Ranch, with a fence in the background, ca.1898-1901. A short section of wooden fence separates part of the pond from a low embankment at right. A large tree grows on the embankment. A wooden building(?) is visible at the far end of the pond. This sheep wash place was described by Ramona as being at Camulos. The Indian, Ramona, was made famous in the novel of the same name by Helen Hunt Jackson.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1021
title: Exterior view of Town Hall in San Pedro, formerly the headquarters of the U.S. Army Quartermaster, Los Angeles, ca.1903

description: Photograph of an exterior view of Town Hall in San Pedro, formerly the headquarters of the U.S. Army Quartermaster, Los Angeles, ca.1903. The square-faced one-story town hall stands to the left, a longer building annexed to it at its right. The left building features double-doors at its center, flanked on either side by two long windows, which are shuttered. A long porch, on which various items are located, connects it to the building to its right, which sports two separate doors and a boarded window to either side. Overgrown scrub vegetation is pictured in the dusty ground in front. The buildings were last the Quartermaster's headquarters in 1862.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4458
title: View of Timm's Landing in San Pedro, Los Angeles, ca.1876

description: Photograph of a view of Timm's Landing in San Pedro, Los Angeles, ca.1876. A flagpole stands on the bank at center, around which several beach houses can be seen to the left and right, a sign on one of which reads "Chandlery". The shore continues out farther to the left and in the background, where the beginnings of the town can be seen. A caption beneath the image reads: "The town of San Pedro is Nestled in the Canyon at Left".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2572
title: View of the San Pedro harbor, showing Lindscon Landing, Stingaree Gulch and Nob Hill, Los Angeles, 1876

description: Photograph of a view of the San Pedro harbor, showing Lindscon Landing, Stingaree Gulch and Nob Hill, Los Angeles, 1876. A ship has run aground in the bay at center, capsizing to the right. Handwriting on the image identifies the wharf and shack in the right foreground as Linscon Landing, the depression in the left foreground as Stingaree Gulch and the elevation in the right background as Nob Hill. It also identifies a faint line on the horizon as the community of Wilmington.; The ship aground might also be unloading cargo using lighterage, the practice of unloading the cargo from a ship first to a lighter vessel, and then finally to the docks. The harbor at Wilmington did not have a deep-water channel running directly to the docks. The lack of a good deep-water harbor was a great handicap to Los Angeles until the Port of Los Angeles was constructed in the 1900s.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4460
title: View of Third Street looking north from Canal Street (later Avalon Street) in Wilmington, Los Angeles, 1911

description: Photograph of a view of Third Street looking north from Canal Street (later Avalon Street) in Wilmington, Los Angeles, 1911. Wooden shacks are pictured to the right of a wide dirt road, down which a horse-drawn cart is navigating in the distance. To the left, an automobile sits beneath a tree, with an additional house visible behind it. The ocean appears to be visible on the horizon.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4548
title: Exterior view of the home of Diego Sepulveda on the Rancho Los Palos Verdes in San Pedro, Los Angeles, ca.1890

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the home of Diego Sepulveda on the Rancho Los Palos Verdes in San Pedro, Los Angeles, ca.1890. A large tree stands at center, partially obscuring the long, two-story ranch house which features both a porch and a balcony. Several doors are visible on each floor, each flanked by at least one window. Clapboard siding can be seen on the narrow side to the right. Picture file card reads: "Built in 1845 [1853?]. Front view of ranch house situated at the NE end of San Pedro. Built by Jose Diego Sepulveda in 1845. It was built of adobe and afterwards rebuilt of timber brought from Bear Valley by ox teams.". This was the first two story Montery-type adobe built in Southern California.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4467
title: View of San Pedro Harbor, showing the depot and Dead Man's Island in the background, Los Angeles, ca.1898

description: Photograph of a view of San Pedro Harbor, showing the depot and Dead Man's Island in the background, Los Angeles, ca.1898. A system of docks and railroad tracks surrounds a small pool of the pay in the foreground, with the rest of the unrestrained bay visible in the far background. The tops of several steamboats can be seen above the dock while a collection of dock houses are visible at the end to the right. Smaller, masted ships can be seen in the background water near the breakwater.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4526
title: Lithograph depicting Bear Harbor and the "proposed" outer harbor in San Pedro, Los Angeles, ca.1905

description: Photograph of a lithograph depicting Bear Harbor and the "proposed" outer harbor in San Pedro, Los Angeles, ca.1905. Terminal Island is shown in the foreground just in from the Pacific Ocean, with the 'proposed' outer harbor full of ships to the left. The inner harbor is just behind the island, also full of ships, after which the city blocks of San Pedro are visible. Mountains can be seen in the extreme background. Deadman's Island and the breakwater can also be seen in the left foreground. Print identifies the areas.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2915
title: View of Point Fermin looking north in San Pedro, Los Angeles, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a view of Point Fermin looking north in San Pedro, Los Angeles, ca.1900. A cliff face edges along the shore to the right, with the ocean visible at left. A line of trees in the distance separate the point from the mountains on the horizon.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4909
title: Portrait of preacher and politician, Pete "Niggar" Johnson in Chinatown, Los Angeles, ca.1888-1890

description: Photographic portrait of preacher and politician, Pete "Niggar" Johnson in Chinatown, Los Angeles, ca.1888-1890. The gentleman is shown an a long coat and top hat, his feet set wide apart and his hands separated in mid-clap. A horse-drawn carriage is pictured in the background along the street to the right, while a group of onlookers leans against the shop fronts to the left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14638
title: Mission San Antonio de Padua, California. Interior view showing original altar and pulpit, 1891

description: Photograph of Mission San Antonio de Padua. Interior view showing original altar and pulpit. The vaulted ceiling has exposed beams. Two benches sit near the sacristy rail.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14235
title: Portrait of Don Pio Pico and wife, ca.1850-1859

description: Photograph of Don Pio Pico and wife, ca.1850-1859. The couple can be seen at full length except for their feet. She sits at left and his right hand is on her right shoulder. His left hand is on his left thigh. Her arms are crossed on her lap, and she can be seen wearing a floral-design shawl. He is wearing a three-piece suit, and his vest is plaid. Don Pio Pico was the last Mexican governor of California, 1845-1846.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3458
title: Los Angeles Times Building the day after its bombing, Los Angeles, October 1, 1910

description: Photograph of the old Los Angeles Times Building the day after its bombing, Los Angeles, October 1, 1910. The three-story Romanesque brick building of the Times building stands, its windows blown out and its insides charred. A portion of it has collapsed to rubble in the left background. Banners posted around the remains read "Times Office Editorial Advertising / Subscription Departments / 531 South Spring Street". A crowd of onlookers is gathered around the debris. A man is visible from behind in the foreground. The building was located on First Street.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3456
title: Cranes and workers on Broadway removing the rubble of the old Los Angeles Times Building the day after its bombing, October 1, 1910

description: Photograph of cranes and workers on Broadway removing the rubble of the old Los Angeles Times Building the day after its bombing, October 1, 1910. Large, shallow freight cars are lined on their tracks across the foreground, receptacles for the removed wreckage. The seared and broken Times building is visible in the center background, behind the arm of a crane. Workers stand on the freight cars. An onlooker stands in the right foreground. Back of photoprint identifies the date as "Sept. 30, 1910".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6798
title: View of the intersection of Hubbard Street and Whittier Boulevard at Belvedere Gardens and Square, Whittier, ca.1924

description: Photograph of a view of the intersection of Hubbard Street and Whittier Boulevard at Belvedere Gardens and Square, Whittier, ca.1924. A wide dirt road looks as if it is being renovated, due to large piles of gravel situated right at its center, and at the center of its similarly situated cross-street. A depot-style building stands like an island on an empty lot in the right background, in front of which several unhitched horse-drawn carts are parked. More construction materials are visible in the background, along with utility poles.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3010
title: Collection of panoramic lithographs depicting Los Angeles, Wilmington and Santa Monica, ca.1877

description: Photograph of a collection of panoramic lithographs depicting Los Angeles, Wilmington and Santa Monica, ca.1877. All three lithographs in the image are shown as aerial views: Los Angeles is pictured at the top, hills visible in the left and right foregrounds, between which a circular park area is located. The blocks of the city extend afterwards into the distance. Wilmington is pictured at the bottom left, identified by a caption. Boats travel the harbor and straits in the foreground, including what appears to be a ferry. Finally, Santa Monica is pictured at the bottom right, also with a view of water. The harbor seems to be shown, with the town on dry land in the foreground and a circular basin of water visible in the background, into which a wharf extends. Boats navigate in the vicinity. Compares to: CHS-7465. Photo is identical to bottom left hand portion of image.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8433
title: Panoramic view of Redlands from Smiley Heights, ca.1904

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Redlands from Smiley Heights, ca.1904. Block after block of orchards are shown in the foreground of the frame, with the houses of the city extending in the background. Several farmhouses can be seen on the orchards at center, and a train can be seen making its way just beyond them to the right. After the residential area a clearing and a few more patches of orchard land are visible, and then a more densely populated portion of the city. Snow-capped mountains tower in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7297
title: View of Main Street in Calexico, Imperial Valley, ca.1910

description: Photograph of a view of Main Street in Calexico, Imperial Valley, ca.1910. A horse-drawn carriage is parked in front of a bakery in the left foreground, with other wooden, saloon-style shops lining that side of the unpaved street. Other carriages can be seen in the background, parked along the roadside as well. Horse dung is visible in several spots on the road. The bakery sign reads: "Home Confectionary / Bakery [...] Soda".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7321
title: Valley State Bank building on the corner in El Centro, Imperial Valley, ca.1905-1906

description: Photograph of the Valley State Bank building on the corner in El Centro, Imperial Valley, ca.1905-1906. People stand along the sidewalk in front of the two-story brick building, horse-drawn carriages parked along the left side of the unpaved street at center. A dog walks out into the street beneath the shadow of the bank. Two men sit off from the sidewalk to the left, a second dog behind them. The arches of a Romanesque building are visible to the right. Signs on the bank read: "Valley State Bank", "Central Committee" and "Druggist".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14639
title: Sheep wash place at Guajome Ranch, ca.1890-1901

description: Photograph of sheep wash place at Guajome Ranch, ca.1890-1901. A set of low stone steps ramp down into the water. A short section of wooden fence separates part of the pond from a low embankment. A large tree grows on the embankment. A wooden fence surrounds the area around the water. There are several large trees. This sheep wash place was described by Ramona as being at Camulos. The Indian, Ramona, was made famous in the novel of the same name by Helen Hunt Jackson.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m271
title: Panoramic view of San Luis Obispo looking north, ca.1906

description: Photograph a panoramic view of San Luis Obispo looking north, ca.1906. A number of trains make their way across the image from left to right a little up from the bottom of the frame, where several one- to two-story houses are visible at the bottom of a hill. The residential area of the city is visible past the tracks, with a building along them reading "Pacific Restaurant". Two tall mountain peaks are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m851
title: View of Mariposa Street as seen from the Court House, Fresno, 1902

description: Photograph of a view of Mariposa Street as seen from the Court House, Fresno, 1902. A strip of grass and pavement terminating in a tree surrounded by a circular patch of grass is pictured in the foreground, with trees to either side. Beyond this, the paved street is visible, lined to either side by Victorian-style high rise buildings. A streetcar appears to be off its rails at center. A water tower and the spires of several more ornate buildings can be seen. Legible signs include: "Bunker & Colson Drugs / Kodaks Cameras [...] Supplies", "All Pay Cash Here... All Save Money Here", "Hall Implement Co.", "Hollands", "O.J. Woodward / Temple Bar / A. Woodward/ 1889", and "Goldstein [...]".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m976
title: Call Building at Third Street and Market Street in flames, a result of the earthquake, San Francisco, April 18-20, 1906

description: Photograph of the Call Building at Third Street and Market Street in flames, a result of the earthquake, San Francisco, April 18-20, 1906. The fourteen-story tower of the Call Building billows smoke from its upper five floors, flames visible on the ground to its left side and in its lower windows. Further down Main Street, rubble that has fallen from other buildings litters the sidewalk. Firemen can be seen attending to a pump and a network of hoses in the street at the center foreground. Legible signs include: "Hale Dental / Teeth Without Plates / Painless Extraction a Specialty" and "H & E".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1929
title: Exterior view of the Van Nuys residence at Seventh Street and Spring Street, Los Angeles, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Van Nuys residence at Seventh Street and Spring Street, Los Angeles, [s.d.]. The lavish, two-story Victorian-style house is shown to the left, with a stable farther on the property to the right. A porch and a balcony are pictured at the house's corner. Between the two buildings a courtyard with a circular driveway can be seen, on which a horse-drawn carriages stands parked with its driver. The property is surrounded by a decorative wrought-iron fence. Sidewalk is visible in the foreground. The house was built in 1879 by M.G. Newmark and sold to J.N. Van Nuys in 1880 for $6,500 with a 60-foot lot. The corner lot was bought by Van Nuys a few years later for $475.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3195
title: Exterior view of the Charles F. Harper residence at the entrance to Laurel Canyon, Hollywood, 1898

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Charles F. Harper residence at the entrance to Laurel Canyon, Hollywood, 1898. A man in a suit and hat, possibly Harper, stands in the foreground at the center of what appears to be the beginning of an orchard. A three-story Victorian-style mansion stands at the foot of the mountains behind him in the distance. Picture file card reads: "Harper and Reynolds".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m11858
title: Conastoga wagon built by John Studebaker in 1830, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a Conastoga wagon built by John Studebaker in 1830, ca.1900. A covered wagon stands on a neutral background, pictured in profile with an upward curve to the cabin. The wheels are spoked and the hitching bar for the horses appears to be broken off at the end. The picture file card reads: "An original pairie [prairie?] schooner".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1134
title: Men on a the deck of a shipping vessel showing Redondo Beach and Hotel in the distance, ca.1889

description: Photograph of  men on a the deck of a shipping vessel showing Redondo Beach and Hotel in the distance, ca.1889. Eight men can be seen on a ship's deck in the foreground, several of whom are preparing to heft crates. Beyond them, in the background, the shore and the large three-story complex of the Redondo Hotel can be seen. A passenger rail car and the Redondo Bathhouse are also visible, as well as a brick building in the business district to the left, and two mansions on the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2920
title: Exterior view of the Mission Santa Clara, ca.1885-1895

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Mission Santa Clara, 1885-1895. The main entrance appears to be Romanesque, flanked to either side by two attached bell towers. A cross stands in the courtyard to the right, behind which trees and the top of a second cross-topped building can be seen. A hedgerow cordons-off the area. Picture file card reads: "From Dr. George Cole Collection.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3756
title: Portrait of Father Duaquin (Juaquin?) standing at the Mission San Gabriel Archangel with altar boys Antonia(-o?) Quiroz and Ray Bilderane, ca.1888

description: Photographic portrait of Father Duaquin (Juaquin?) standing at the Mission San Gabriel Archangel with altar boys Antonia(-o?) Quiroz and Ray Bilderane, ca.1888. Father Duaquin stands in the church's entranceway at left holding his cap and book of verses, looking off to the right. Quiroz, the taller alter boy, can be seen to the right of Father Duaquin and can be seen looking straight ahead and holding a long cross. Bilderane, the smaller boy, stands to the father's left looking straight ahead.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13221
title: Mural painting which depicts the founding of Los Angeles, ca.1931-1939

description: Photograph of a mural painting which depicts the founding of Los Angeles, ca.1931-1939. The mural, reproduced from a September 1931 issue of Touring Topics magazine is painted in a graphic, undetailed style and sports a caption over the top which reads "The Founding of Los Angeles 1781". Settlers in pilgrim-style clothing are visible, with a flag in the foreground and a collection of horses and riders in the background. The microfiche of the image shows supplementary text that appears to be from the magazine: it includes a ballad by John Russel McCarthy that begins "Peons from lazy Mexico", identifies the editor of the magazine as Phil Townsend Hanna and the artist of the painting as Millard Sheets.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14640
title: Wolfe Store near Temecula, California, ca.1887

description: Photograph of Wolfe Store near Temecula, California, ca.1887. Also was Butterfield Overland Mail Station on the Pauba Ranch headquarters in Old Temecula. Built 1859. Louis Wolfe is standing on the covered porch with his hand on a post. Another man is sitting on the porch at Wolfe's left. To Wolfe's right another man is stepping up onto the porch with a bucket in his hand and a sack under his arm. A picket fence surrounds a yard at left. A wood rail fence is visible at right. This store is where Alesandro sold his violin while Ramona, The Indian made famous in the novel of the same name by Helen Hunt Jackson, waited in the cemetery.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9449
title: Female motorist in the desert standing next to a warning sign for next available water, ca.1920-1930

description: Photographic of a female motorist in the desert standing next to a warning sign for next available water, ca.1920-1930. A woman with short hair, dressed in a button-down shirt and cardigan stands to the left of a sign with her automobile visible parked along the dirt road in the center background. The sign reads "Next Drinking Water 128 Miles / Next Radiator Water 42 Miles / State Department of Health.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8425
title: Collage with illustrations representing the irrigation of orchards in the Redlands area, Redlands, ca.1890-1900

description: Photograph of a collage with illustrations representing the irrigation of orchards in the Redlands area, Redlands, ca.1890-1900. A smaller photograph depicting a river spring coming out of a rock face is overlaid at the top left across the main image of a man standing next to an irrigation pipe in front of orchards, pictured at center. The rocks and water of the small photograph have been enhanced by an artist. Two fruit-bearing orange branches have been painted arch across the larger photograph, the mountains in the background of which have also be enhanced.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3894
title: Trail on Mount Wilson, Los Angeles, ca.1895-1905

description: Photograph of a trail on Mount Wilson, Los Angeles, ca.1895-1905. Several slabs of rock are shown at right along the side of a narrow dirt path which runs across the image. There appears to be a dropping slope to the left of the path, on which trees can be seen. Trees are also visible on the upward slope to the right. Picture file card reads: "From Miss Wheeler".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4485
title: Exterior view of the Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana as seen from an olive orchard, 1890

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana as seen from an olive orchard, 1890. The diffuse trees of the olive orchard stand in the foreground, separated from the mission property by an adobe wall approximately four to five feet tall. The long, two-story adobe building of the mission is visible between their branches at center, with its spackle having come off in places. A second adobe building is partially visible to the left of it, as is a post-and-rail fence in front of it.