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DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8308
title: Lithograph depicting Fort Sutter, Sacramento, California, ca.1848

description: Photograph of a lithograph depicting Fort Sutter, Sacramento, California, ca.1848. A group of seven pack mules are led across the small wooden bridge in the foreground by a horseman on land to the right and three more crossing the bridge to the left. Across the stream, the fort can be seen, surrounded by tall walls and two large, wooden gate doors. The top of the fort's main building is visible and flies the American flag. Lookout towers are positioned on the back corners of the wall, in front of which a fourth, lone horseman can be seen. The historical fort itself was armed with nine guns and had a garrison of 100 men.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3491
title: Desert supply station at Dagget before the railroad, showing D.E. Lott's transportation team arriving, San Bernardino, California, ca.1880

description: Photograph of the desert supply station at Dagget before the railroad, showing D.E. Lott's transportation team arriving, San Bernardino, California, ca.1880. Two men and a woman stand posing on the right side of the station's porch while two other men sit in a horse-drawn wagon at center. Two large double-file ranks of mules stand to either side of the station, hitched to a train of three huge cargo wagons with a rider at left. Bales of hay are visible in the background. The ground is covered in small stones and low-growing vegetation.; Picture file card reads: "Mrs. Melvina la Pointe Lott, neice of Remi Nadeau was given a 20 mule freight team by Nadeau. The Lotts used the outfit to haul gold ore from the Oro Grande Mines in the Calico Mts. To Daggett."
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17893
title: Death Valley from Dante's View, California, ca.1900-1950

description: Photograph of Death Valley from Dante's View, California, ca.1900-1950. Striated mountain rock stands sloping in from the right foreground, showing the shifting desert sands below to the left. More mountain ridges are visible in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17894
title: View of Death Valley from Funeral Range, California, ca.1900-1950

description: Photograph of a view of Death Valley from Funeral Range, California, ca.1900-1950. Tall dunes curl into peaks from left to right at center while smaller, rounder dunes stand in the foreground. The hazy silhouette of mountains can be seen in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17895
title: View of Death Valley, California, ca.1900-1940

description: Photograph of a view of Death Valley, California, ca.1900-1940. Striated mountain ridges dominate the right half of the image, sloping down to smaller peaks among the sand below in the left hand side. Flat sand is visible briefly in the background before encountering more mountains.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17896
title: View of Death Valley from the mountains, California, ca.1900-1950

description: Photograph of a view of Death Valley from the mountains, California, ca.1900-1950. One small, distinct peak is visible to the left from behind the crags of the mountainous terrain in the foreground. Flatland stretches out briefly in the background before becoming more mountains.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14589
title: Stereograph of the bridge of Ixtacaleo (Iztacalco), near Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905

description: Photograph of a stereograph of the bridge of Ixtacaleo, near Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905. The canals that cut through the famous floating gardens are visible in the foreground. About twenty people are on the bridge. Several people look out over the canal at a small boat in which two fisherman ply their trade with large triangular nets. Tall trees surround the canal. Additional information: currently, the name is spelled as Iztacalco (from the Nahuatl (Aztec) language: Ixtatl -- salt, calli -- house, co -- suffix for place = "Place of the house of salt"); it's one of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs) into which Mexico's Federal District is divided.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m596
title: View of a parade for William Jennings Bryan at Main Street and Temple Block, Los Angeles, ca.1896

description: Photograph of a view of Main Street from Temple Block during a parade for William Jennings Bryan, Los Angeles, ca.1896. Crowds of spectators flood the street but make way for a horse-drawn carriage escorted by police officers holding sabers. More spectators look from a platform built from the second story of a building at the left. An American flag hangs in from outside of the frame to the right, in front of the Victorian-style shopfronts. Legible signs include: "C. Decoma Hardware", and "Loan and Broker".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3719
title: West Lake Park (later MacArthur Park) looking southeast, Los Angeles, ca.1889-1900

description: Photograph of West Lake Park (later MacArthur Park) looking southeast, Los Angeles, ca.1889-1900. A man in a light-colored shirt and hat pilots a row boat and looks at the camera while a woman passenger sits to the left side of the boat holding a parasol over her head. Other boats are visible behind, mostly rowboats, although a sailboat is also visible to the right. Residences are visible on the horizon beyond the lake's shore, along which people are gathered. To the left, extended into the lake, a gazebo shades more visitors. A tall pole with a platform attached stands on the bank to the left of center.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17897
title: Rimpau Street looking south from Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca. April 16, 1928

description: Photograph of a view of Rimpau Street looking south from Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca. April 16, 1928. The last in a line of utility poles stands on the corner of the two streets like a cross, while an automobile makes its way down Rimpau to the left. Steps leading up a grassy hill are visible in from the sidewalk to the right. A second hill fills part of the curbside on the left side of the street, with no buildings beginning along the street until about half way down on either side. The tower of a gothic church can be seen in the distance to the left. Two small, corrugated domes are raised above the street's pavement.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17898
title: Rimpau Street looking north from Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1928

description: Photograph of a view of Rimpau Street looking north from Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1928. A streetlamp is visible to the extreme left on the sidewalk while a postal mailbox stands on the corner at center. A two-story house with singled siding stands in from the sidewalk to the left, followed further in by a house with terracotta roofing. Romanesque arches can be seen in the house across the street to the right, several other, more traditional homes extending into the distance down the street. A street sign by the mailbox reads, "[...] 100 [...] 20 [...]".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3725
title: View of West Lake Park East (later MacArthur Park), Los Angeles, April 16, 1928

description: Photograph of a view of West Lake Park East (later MacArthur Park), Los Angeles, April 16, 1928. Skyscrapers and highrise tenement buildings are visible in the background over the treetops of West Lake Park's foliage. A park road can be seen at left center, while the lake is partially visible to the right, along with several park buildings and a long, flat gazebo. A leafless tree and the top of the utility pole are visible in the extreme foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3714
title: West Lake Park (later MacArthur Park) from Seventh Street and Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, ca.1930

description: Photograph of a view of West Lake Park (later MacArthur Park) from Seventh Street and Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, ca.1930. The silhouette of an individual is visible in the foreground behind a bench in front of a circular centerpiece in the park. Palm trees surround them and the lake is visible in the distance. Skyscrapers and highrises are visible behind the treetops on the other shore showing what appears to be the Garfield Building.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3366
title: View of Cahuenga Pass looking south near a summit and showing traffic, Hollywood, ca. July 1928

description: Photograph of a view of Cahuenga Pass looking south near a summit, showing traffic, Hollywood, ca. July 1928. Automobiles make their way down the wide, unlined road in two lanes, flanked to either side by mountains. A line of utility poles stretche their wires toward the camera to the right, behind which a dirt motor path up into the mountains is visible. A narrower, secondary road can be seen to the left of and below the main one.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4673
title: Exterior view of Griffith Avenue School, Los Angeles, 1900

description: Photograph of an exterior view of Griffith Avenue School, Los Angeles, 1900. A two-story, Victorian-style boarding house with long, narrow windows stands with its arched entranceway partially obscured by the tree foliage hanging in from the left. It is encapsulated by a wrought-iron fence approximately four feet high. The opening can be seen to the left, behind the tree. A tall square pole with many wires attached to it stands on the sidewalk to the unpaved street, but does not appear to be a utility pole or telephone pole.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3118
title: Panoramic view of Hollywood looking southeast from the head of Orchard Street, ca.1910

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Hollywood looking southeast from the head of Orchard Street, ca.1910. An empty lot is visible to the left of a two-story business office to the left, fronted by the square, empty yard of a local residence. A nearby sign painted on the wall of a warehouse building reads, "Hollywood Garage Co.". Residential houses dominate the rest of the landscape, separated by streets and rows of trees. Mountains are visible on the horizon.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9524
title: Portrait of an outfit of cowboys at their camp, 1898

description: Photographic portrait of an outfit of cowboys at their camp, 1898. Nine cowboys pose in a line on horseback while a tenth sits behind them on the chuck wagon to the right. Two pup tents have been pitched at center, behind them. A group of unsaddled horses grazes together to the left, while a lone horse grazes to the right. A mesa can be seen in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14590
title: Organ cactus in central Mexico, ca.1900-1920

description: Photograph of a lot of organ cactus (so named for their resemblance to organ pipes) in a field in central Mexico, ca.1900-1920. The pitaya nopales (ripened fruit, or tuna, and stem segments) are edible. Eight people (men and children) lounge about the cacti. One man is carrying clay jars.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9526
title: Portrait of an outfit of cowboys in the mountains, ca.1898

description: Photographic portrait of an outfit of cowboys in the mountains, ca.1898. Eight cowboys pose in a line, mounted on their horses, most wearing similar hats and vests. A sharp mountain ridge juts up from behind the tree in back of them, along with another, flatter rock formation in the extreme background. The cowboy at center rides a light horse in contrast to the others' dark ones.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9528
title: Portrait of cowboys leaving camp, ca.1898

description: Photographic portrait of cowboys leaving camp, ca.1898. Eight cowboys are situated to the right, six of which are mounted on their horses. The other two stand on the ground, holding their horses' reigns. To the left, two more cowboys tend to their covered, horse-drawn wagon. A final, dark horse stands partially visible to the extreme left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9527
title: Portrait of cowboys eating around the chuck wagon, 1898

description: Photographic portrait of cowboys eating around the chuck wagon, 1898. The chuck wagon stands draped in a tarp at left while a cowboy stands to the right, behind the shelf protruding from the wagon's rear that supports a basin. Three more cowboys sit on the ground next to him, drinking what appears to be coffee. Five more are still further right, one of them mounted on his horse, one seated, the others standing. Sacks covered by tarps lie on the ground in the foreground. Trees are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9632
title: Cowboys tending to several herds of cattle, ca.1900

description: Photograph of cowboys tending to several herds of cattle, ca.1900. A single cowboy mounted on his horse stands in the right foreground of the photo, while a second does the same in the centerground to the left, flanked to either side between two groups of cattle. More cattle are visible in the flatland in the distance. A rock formation can be seen coming in from outside the frame in the left foreground. Picture file card reads "Range horses.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9525
title: Portrait of an outfit of cowboys at their camp, with range horses, 1898

description: Photographic portrait of an outfit of cowboys at their camp, with range horses, 1898. Several pup tents and a mess tent have been pitched among a group of cowboys who pose with a small herd of range horses behind them. Two stand to the far left in front of two horses and one of the tents, followed to the right by the mess tent, from which smoke is billowing out of a cooking fire on the ground. Next, seven cowboys are situated, five of them standing, two mounted on horses with two tents pitched behind them to the right. The group of unsaddled range horses is visible to the center behind them. Trees are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m11806
title: Stage coach destined for the Nevada mine, California, ca.1905

description: Photograph of a stage coach destined for the Nevada mine, California, ca.1905. Seven men in suits and hats gather on and around a stagecoach carriage led by six horses. The man at the extreme back of the covered carriage holds on to the luggage rack on top and splays his legs, a foot on each back wheel. A man in a porkpie hat is visible behind him. Next, two men sit in the driver's bench at the front of the carriage, holding the reigns, while a third sits behind them in the luggage rack. Two final men stand on the ground, looking at the camera.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m11799
title: Portrait of a stage coach driver in front of his coach, California, ca.1880-1890

description: Photographic portrait of a stage coach driver in front of his coach, California, ca.1880-1890. A stout man stands at center wearing a western hat and long coat, with his pants hoisted high on his waist and tucked into his laceless knee-high boots. Leather driver's gloves are visible on his hands. Behind him, the stagecoach can be partially seen, its canvas door-flap up over the top of the cabin. The large, spoked, rear wheel is nearly as tall as the driver.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m11821
title: People gathered for the last trip of the Black Hills stage coach for Cheyenne, Wyoming, February 19, 1887

description: Photograph of people gathered for the last trip of the Black Hills stage coach for Cheyenne, Wyoming, February 19, 1887. The stage coach stands in the foreground led by six darkly-colored horses. At left, a group of six passengers sit on top of the carriage's cabin, with the two drivers on their bench to the front. A man stands on the ground, next to the first hitched horse. Behind them, people can be seen gathered on the patio of a collection of commercial shops, who bear signs that read "Office", and "E. Loei Clothing", over which a balcony can be seen with a gilded wrought-iron guard rail.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17899
title: Aerial view of Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley, ca.1928

description: Photograph of an aerial view of Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley, ca.1928. Two mountain ridges are visible; the nearest cuts in from the left at the center of the image, while the other covers the entire expanse of the horizon in the background. Tightly-packed city blocks can also be seen below, in the bottom third of the image, backed by the first ridge. A concentration of four skyscrapers is prominent in the center of the city.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17900
title: View of Sutter's Mill at Coloma, where Marshall discovered gold, El Dorado, ca.1930

description: Photograph of a view of Sutter's Mill at Coloma, where Marshall discovered gold, El Dorado, ca.1930. A man stands on the ground with his hands on his hips beneath the dilapidated ruins of an elevated cabin behind him wearing a long, light-colored coat and a bowler hat. The boards of the cabin's walls are partially gone and slant both inward and to the side. A surrounding ridge of hills is visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14591
title: Big tree in the forest of Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1900.

description: Photograph of a very big tree in the forest of Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico,ca.1900. An old man with a full white beard and moustache, wearing a sailor's cap and heavy long coat, stands at the base of a tree which is the width of more than ten men. The silhouettes of other trees can be seen in the background at left and right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3107
title: Panoramic view of Hollywood looking south from the head of Orange Street, ca.1910

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Hollywood looking south from the head of Orange Street, ca.1910. Craftsman-style residential houses fill the foreground, separated lawns and palm trees. To the left, a long strip of property holds only two houses with a horse standing between them; the rest is a grass-covered lot. Behind this, non-residential buildings, one of which features a capping dome, appear to be grouped together. To the right, a strip of paved, unlined street extends in from the bottom of the image. A field of oil siphons can be seen in the cleared expanse of the distance. Compares to CHS-5903 (1905) and CHS-6974 (1928).
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3148
title: Panoramic view of Hollywood looking west from the head of Orange Street, ca.1910

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Hollywood looking west from the head of Orange Street, ca.1910. Trees and craftsman-style residences line either side of the street that enters the image from the lower right corner, and terminates in a corner with a second street, where a house stands, backed by what appears to be a grove of trees. More streets increase the grid work of the town, while a long, narrow road in the distance to the left extends into a field of oil siphons. Picture file card reads "cf. 6-9-50".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17901
title: Mount Tom from a pasture in the town of Bishop, California, ca.1900-1940

description: Photograph of Mount Tom from a pasture in the town of Bishop, California, ca.1900-1940. A horse grazes at the center of the secluded field surrounded by trees, while a cow does the same by a tree to the extreme right. The striated mountainside of Mount Tom rises from behind the trees in the background. A gnarled tree is partially visible in the extreme left foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3664
title: Aerial view of Los Angeles from a spot approximating Pershing Square, December 1927

description: Photograph of an aerial view of Los Angeles from a spot approximating Pershing Square, December 1927. Pershing Square stands at the center of the city's grid, a flat block covered with grass and trees and featuring a diamond-shaped centerpiece. The Biltmore Hotel is visible to the square's immediate left, and the Philharmonic Auditorium is visible across the street just above it.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m500
title: Third Street looking east from Hill Street in Los Angeles, ca.1876

description: Photograph of Third Street looking east from Hill Street in Los Angeles, ca.1876. A wide, unpaved dirt road stretches diagonally from the bottom center of the photograph to the extreme left above, with rows of trees obscuring the craftsman-style houses to the right. Crude pose-and-wire fences are visible outlining and separating two cleared lots to the center left. The roundhouse of the Depot of Los Angeles and the Independence Rail Road Station can be seen above the rooftops in the background. Farm and orchard land covers the rest of the distance to the horizon.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13345
title: Portrait of aviator Arch Hoxsey at the Dominguez Air Meet, Los Angeles, December 31, 1910

description: Photographic portrait of aviator Arch Hoxsey at the Dominguez Air Meet, Los Angeles, December 31, 1910. Hoxsey, an early exhibition aviator for the Wright team, is shown here in bust at approximately three-quarters profile. He is dressed in the thick wool, leather and fur of an aviator's jacket and cap and wears a pair of goggles on his forehead over the cap. He wears glasses and is smiling intently, slightly bucktoothed. He is facing left. One of many constantly trying to outdo eachother, Hoxsey died while trying to set an altitude record at the meet. Hoxsey made the first world record flight of 11,474 feet.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13347
title: Portrait of aviator Arch Hoxsey lifted on his colleague's shoulders at the Dominguez Hill Air Meet, December 31, 1910

description: Photographic portrait of aviator Arch Hoxsey lifted on his colleague's shoulders at the Dominguez Hill Air Meet, December 31, 1910. Hoxsey, dressed in his aviator's jacket, goggles and cap, is hoisted on his fellows' shoulders after his world-record flight of 11,474 feet. Two men bear him on their shoulders while two more flank him to either side, one wearing a striped beanie, the other a suit and hat. They are separated by a metal fence from the bleachers full of spectators behind them. Hoxsey later lost his life at the meet attempting to further break the altitude record.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12390
title: The deepest oil well on Signal Hill, Long Beach, May 1, 1928

description: Photograph of the deepest oil well on Signal Hill, Long Beach, May 1, 1928. What appears to be a two-story cottage-style residential home stands behind a palm tree to the right of a tall oil siphon tower at center. The tower marked an oil well that was 7,409 feet deep and was operated by the Richfield Oil Company. A water tower can be seen behind the house to the right, as well as a second siphon in the distance to the left. A tall, conical shrub droops in from the left foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7525
title: Exterior view of the Hotel Washington showing the court, Monterey, ca.1890

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Hotel Washington showing the court, Monterey, ca.1890. The L-shaped three-story adobe complex of the hotel stands a little into the distance at center, showing a clearing in front covered with patchy grass. Much of the spackle is coming off of the main building of the L, and what appear to be a set of wooden steps lead up to the second floor. The shorter portion of the complex stands to the right, perpendicular to the central building. It is only two-stories tall, and features similar wooden stepsthat lead to the second-floor porch and entrances. A tree can be seen to the far left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14592
title: Chapultepec Castle, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of the Chapultepec Castle, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. The castle is on a high hill. In the middle, the arcades of Santa Fe Aqueduct can be seen running along the north side of the hill. At the time the photograph was taken, the aqueduct was still functioning with the Water Leap Fountain at its lower end. The fountain was located at former Niño Perdido Street. A shepherd tends his flock in the pasture in front of the aqueduct.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m569
title: Panoramic view of Sixth Street looking west from Spring Street, Los Angeles, 1904

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Sixth Street looking west from Spring Street, Los Angeles, 1904. The street stands to the left, stretching towards the horizon from the bottom of the photo, populated with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages. Tall two- to four-story victorian-style business buildings line it to the left and right. To the extreme right, the large, two-story mansion-style Spring Street School can be seen next to the H. Arnold Furniture House that advertises "Mattings, Linoleum & Rugs". Mountains are visible in the background. The California State Normal School can also be seen. Legible signs include: "Mackie Frederick's / Acorn Stoves and Steel Ranges", "Mayberg Bros.", "W.G. Hutchinson Co.", "[...]Masbury's [...]missed Paints and Colors", "Drug Store" and "Glencarry".