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DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4358
title: Lankershim Boulevard, later North Hollywood Boulevard, in the town of Lankershim in the San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1927

description: Photograph of Lankershim Boulevard, later North Hollywood Boulevard, in the town of Lankershim in the San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1927. Cars drive and park down either side of the two-lane, paved road. People walk the sidewalks along the shopfronts of commercial buildings. Telephone poles are visible down the left side, as well as two telephone lines stretching across the frame from left to right. Legible signs include: "Soda / Drugs", "Hardware", "Hotel", "Real Estate", "[...]'s Variety Store" and "Godwin's Drugs".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13755
title: A pencil or charcoal portrait of William Mulholland, San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a pencil or charcoal portrait of William Mulholland, San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]. Mr. Mulholland, the self-trained engineer who masterminded the Department of Water and Power as well as the Los Angeles Aqueduct, is pictured here as a bust, in profile. His deep-set eyes are hard to see and surrounded on all sides by folds and wrinkles. His receding hairline is cut short and neat. Later, Mulholland's reputation dropped when the St. Francis Dam, a project of the Department collapsed on March 12 1928, killing 450 in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. He wears a light suit and tie. An artist's signature is visible at bottom, but unreadable.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4312
title: Small canal and waterpipe to the water supply of the San Fernando Mission, San Fernando Valley, California, 1910

description: Photograph of the small canal and waterpipe to the water supply of the San Fernando Mission, San Fernando Valley, California, 1910. Visible from between two areas of brush, a pipe runs to a barrier made out of planks, beyond which a concrete canal filled with water flows, flanked to either side by bedrock. Houses, mountains and telephone poles are visible in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13955
title: Site in Placerita Canyon where gold was discovered in 1842, San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1930

description: Photograph of a site in Placerita Canyon where gold was discovered in 1842, San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1930. Piles of rocks marble the hillside at right in-between patches of shrubs and tall grass. The hills continue into the background at left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17802
title: Siphon pipe with an early automobile inside, San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a siphon pipe with an early automobile inside, San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]. The automobile, with light colored, spoked wheels and a canopy top, sports the number "17225 Cal." On the front grill and is enclosed inside of the circumference of a riveted siphon pipe which sits on a number of two-by-fours. To the right, a man stands on a second siphon pipe with a plank ramp in front of him on a steep incline.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5755
title: White leghorn chickens on a chicken farm in the San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1900/1940

description: Photograph of white leghorn chickens on a chicken farm in the San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1900/1940. Leghorns fill the view behind a chickenwire fence at center, with a chicken coop partially visible with its windows open to the left. A short tree stands behind the fence at right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12640
title: A docked Washington-Vancouver ferry, ca.1905

description: Photograph of a docked Washington-Vancouver ferry, Columbia River (?), ca.1905. Planks and debris line the bank around the dock where four men dressed in dark clothing approach the ferry. Two people, a man and a woman in light clothing seem to be tending to the tall, narrow cabin whose sign reads "Vancouver". Passengers stand along the railing at the top of the ferry.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17803
title: Freemont pass in Antelope Valley, Los Angeles, ca.1900-1950

description: Photograph of Freemont pass in Antelope Valley, Los Angeles, ca.1900-1950. Two large rock faces, lined to either side by shrubs and other low-growing vegetation, create a narrow passageway through which the cleared road must pass. Telephone poles are visible to the right. Photoprint reads "Beale's Cut. Pass cut by Beale from San Fernando Valley to Newhall". The following are transcriptions of memos regarding the pass:; Memo by Eugene Plummer, [s.d.]: "Fremont crossed into the San Fernando Valley coming south from Santa Barbara by the Santa Susana pass and in the San Fernando Valley, came to the home of Geronimo Lopez. (This site is now under Chatsworth lake.) he there inquired where he could encamp his men, preparatory to engaging the Californians from Los Angeles. Lopez directed him to the place of Mariano de la Luz Verdugo. This is now the site of Universal City--the place being marked by the adobe chapel at Universal City."; Memo per Plummer in regard to the Newhall Cut between Newhall and San Fernando, March 26, 1937: "This pass is marked as the Fremont Pass. Plummer says that Fremont never came into the San Fernando Valley by this route but over the Santa Susana. This cut was made in the 1860's by Nadeau, to accomodaate freighting to north from Los Angeles and was operated as a toll road. The toll road was controlled by a man named Cummings, and Plummer relates that Cummings was fond of Liquor but could not 'hold his liquor'. On one occasion, Plummer and others wished to drive a herd of cattle through the pass and to avoid paying the toll charges. They sent a man ahead who treated Cummings to 7 or 8 drinks of brandy till he was 'out', and then they drove the cattle through the pass without paying a toll."
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m10090
title: The high Sierra Mountains at Cottonwood Lake, San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1930

description: Photograph of the high Sierra Mountains at Cottonwood Lake, San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1930. A stream zig-zags through the snow-covered landscape, which is virgin snow and rocks almost exclusively until just before the second peak of the mountains in the background, where trees can be seen lining the foothills. The lake from which the stream comes constituted San Fernando Valley's water supply.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17804
title: A pipeline in the Jawbone Siphon of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Mojave Desert, Kern County, ca.1915

description: Photograph of a pipeline in the Jawbone Siphon of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Mojave Desert, Kern County, ca.1915. A large, riveted metal pipeline runs down from a tall hill at the center of the image, turning to the right just before exiting the frame. Debris, small carts and building materials line the pipe to either side. A depot is visible at right at the foot of the hill. Further off in the distance, two horses stand.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14561
title: A man and a woman beside the tomb of Thomas Mejia, San Fernado Cemetery, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of the tomb of Thomas Mejia, San Fernado Cemetery, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. A man and a woman are standing in front of the tombstone "T. Mejia, + Junio 19, 1867" in the cemetery crowded with tall grave markers. A gnarly tree grows to their right. A thick wire fence marks a square of ground in front of them. Legible signs include: "+ Restos de las señoritas Pilar, Josefa y Luis, Camacho y Zulueta, R.I.P., trasladados, á este lugar e[...] dia 6 de Mayo 1891", "Maria Loreto Pizar[...], de Camacho, Junio 11 de 1871". "Tomás Mejía was shot along with Maximilian and General Miguel Miramón at el Cerro de las Campanas, Querétaro, on June 19, 1867" -- USC DL Patron, 2016-01-04.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4310
title: Tunnel in the Owens River Gorge, San Fernando Valley, California, 1913

description: Photograph of a tunnel in the Owens River Gorge, San Fernando Valley, California, 1913. Two rail tracks run along the bottom of a craggy tunnel, the ceiling of which has beams to which wires are attached.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4359
title: Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1926-1927

description: Photograph of Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1926-1927. Two-story brick buildings line the road on either side advertising soad, cigars, lunch, drugs, etc. Early automobiles are parked along the sidewalks while still others drive. An early pickup truck reads "Express" along the side. Telephone poles are visible over the trees in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m10087
title: Lake George in the high Sierras, Los Angeles'  water supply, ca.1930

description: Photograph of Lake George in the high Sierras, Los Angeles'  water supply, ca.1930. The lake is calm and visible behind some scant trees in the foreground. Snow-dappled mountains, with a particularly trapezoidal peak at right, are visible in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13686
title: Judge D.C. Haines, a San Fernando pioneer in San Fernando Valley, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of Judge D.C. Haines, a San Fernando pioneer in San Fernando Valley, [s.d.]. The judge, dressed in a dark suit and wearing a hat, stands erect with one foot at the bottom of an uprooted stump, resting his hand on the top of it and supporting himself with a cane in the other. He is old, and sports a grisly, white beard. A barn and a house are visible behind him, as well as an automobile to the left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17805
title: John G. Wilson, San Fernando Valley, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of John G. Wilson, San Fernando Valley, [s.d.]. Mr. Wilson sits in a rocking chair dressed in a suit and hat, with his legs crossed and the butt of a cigar wedged between his fingers. He sports a moustache and has his hair cropped close to his scalp. He is on the lawn, with a palm tree behind him.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m10088
title: North Palisade Glacier in Inyo County, California, ca.1930

description: Photograph of the North Palisade Glacier in Inyo County, California, ca.1930. Snow-dappled mountain peaks serpentine at the left and right, forming a valley at their center. Trees are visible in the foreground while lateral mountain peaks are visible in the background. Photoprint reads "Source of water supply of Los Angeles".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17806
title: Portrait of F.M. Wright, San Fernando Valley, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of F.M. Wright, San Fernando Valley, [s.d.]. Mr. Wright is pictured here in bust looking straight ahead. He is sporting a dark jacket and vest with a light suit and tie. He dons a well-trimmed white beard, and his hair is parted at left. A tie-clip is visible on the vest. He appears to be in his early sixties.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13587
title: Portrait of Fred Eaton, the first purchaser of Owens Valley Water for Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Fred Eaton, the first purchaser of Owens Valley Water for Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]. Mr. Eaton is pictured in bust looking slightly to the left. He wears a thick, dark jacket and vest made out of what appears to be cotton. He wears a light, high-collared shirt and a dark tie. His short-cropped hair is quaffed to the side. He wears thin-rimmed glasses.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13808
title: Portrait of Rojero, the Indian mission Chorister of San Fernando, California, ca.1900

description: Photographic portrait of Rojero, the Indian mission Chorister of San Fernando, California, ca.1900. Rojero is pictured from the knees up, seated on a rock, with his right hand resting shoulder-height on the top of his cane. He can be seen wearing a dark suit, with a pendant around his neck. His beard is silver and grisly, while his facial features appear haggard and full of wrinkles. He can also be seen wearing a wide-brimmed hat, which is secured to his head with a chinstrap. A portion of brick wall is visible behind him.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13189
title: Students and teachers outside of a Lankershim Ranch School in bunkhouse, San Fernando Valley, ca.1889

description: Photograph of students and teachers outside of a Lankershim Ranch School in bunkhouse, San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1889. Several groups of children are out at play on the dusty, sedge grass-laden property in front of two, small one-story buildings. To the left, a line of older girls and one boy wait in anticipation of passing through the loop made by their two teachers, who have linked their arms together to make an eyelet. A third teacher stands to the right and a bit more forward, behind whom five young boys play at pushing each other. The rest of the children are seated in a row facing front, with two boys to the left, three girls in the center and three more boys to the extreme right. Foliage from a tree obscures much of the second building in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14562
title: View of the tomb of Benito Juarez, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of the tomb of Benito Juarez, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. The light granite sarcophagus lid has a life-size statue of two figures -- a prone one whose head is lying in the lap of the other sitting one. It is surrounded by flowers. A ribbon at left reads ..."erno de Puebla".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4317
title: A group of children outside an early private school situated at the Mission, San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1884

description: Photograph of a group of children outside an early private school situated at the Mission, San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1884. A group comprised of sixteen boys and girls stands on the shaded porch of a plank house. The tallest of the boys stands to the right with his hand on a shorter boy's shoulder. To the immediate left of him, another boy stands, holding a cane, in front of which a small girl who is not wearing shoes has had her face blurred. The girl to the extreme left of the group is the only apparent one whose dress has an apparent decorative pattern on it. Picture file card reads: "Although schools were rare, books costly, and the Californians indifferent to education in early times, San Fernando proudly claims the possession of a school more than eighty years ago. Señorita Concepcion Arguello, a young Spanish girl preparing to be a nun, taught a private school at the Mission in about 1840. The young daughters of the majordomo and others of the Spanish race attended, no Indians being permitted to enter. The regalia of a nun worn by the young teacher gives a quaint old-world atmosphere to this first school in San Fernando. After a lapse of nearly twenty years, the first public school was organized at Lopez Station. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lopez having enjoyed the best educational advantages of their time, under the instruction of Don Coronel, were earnest advocates of education. It was due to their efforts that a school was established. The schoolhouse was an adobe built by Mr. Lopez for a stage house, though never used as such. There were twenty-five children to attend the school. Mrs. Catherine Carter was the first teacher. She was paid sixty dollars a month. The school was partly public and partly subscription; if the public treasury ran low the parents pledged themselves to make it up. It was taught in English. The teacher boarded with Mrs. Lopez for twenty-six years; as long as the school remained. The Trustees were George Rice, Geronimo Lopez, and Mr. Robinson. The proportions of the district were awe inspiring, bounded by the sea on the West and limited by the mountains on the East. The school progressed so well that after fourteen years a new schoolhouse was deemed necessary, which was built at Lopez Station and used until 1884."; The children are identified as: (Upper Row, Left to Right) Erlinda Lopez De Alexander, Issac Renaldi, Albert Oliver, Saragosa Grace Leonard (Teacher), Jack Jenifer(?), Catarina Lopez De Millen, Ramona Lopez De Shang, Grace Lopez De Wilson, Stephen Lopez, William H. Lopez. (Lower Row, Left to Right) Rubina Lopez De Dominguez, Julian Renaldi, George Jenifer(?), Jerome Durm, Otto Renaldi.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17807
title: Portrait of General K. Porter, San Fernando Valley, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of General K. Porter, San Fernando Valley, [s.d.]. He can be seen in bust at three-quarters profile looking to the left. His chin is upraised and is covered with a gray goatee. He is visible wearing a dark suit and bowtie. His hair is quaffed and parted to the left. His full face shows little sign of wrinkling.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13782
title: Portrait of B.F. Porter, of Porter Ranch in the San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of B.F. Porter, of Porter Ranch in the San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.].  The broad-shouldered Mr. Porter is pictured here in bust at three-quarters profile. He is wearing what appears to be a dark wool suit jacket that buttons very nearly all the way to his collar. He also wears a bowtie and can be seen looking to the left. He sports a graying beard that extends all the way to his sideburns. His hair is both thinning and receding and it is combed to the side.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17808
title: Portrait of Colonel H.G. Hubbard, a San Fernando Valley pioneer, California, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Colonel H.G. Hubbard, a San Fernando Valley pioneer, California, [s.d.].  Colonel Hubbard is pictured here in bust. He appears to be sitting in a chair, the back of which is just visible behind his shoulder to the right. He wears what appears to be a dark corduroy suit and a bowtie. His grisly beard is white and connects to his receding hair via his sideburns. He stares earnestly out towards the left of the frame, his eyes rimmed by wrinkles and other signs of age.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17809
title: Portrait of Isaac N. Van Nuys, one of the developers of the south half of the San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Isaac N. Van Nuys, one of the developers of the south half of the San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]. Mr. Van Nuys is pictured here in bust, looking straight ahead. His short-trimmed beard has silvered, although it looks well-attended-to. He wears what appears to be a dark, wool suit, as well as a bowtie. The hair on his head is also short-trimmed, and is parted at left.; Photoprint reads: "Isaac Newlin Van Nuys came from San Francisco to join with his friend Isaac Lankershim in the development of the San Fernando Valley. Under their guidance it became a vast wheat ranch".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4364
title: Pepper Avenue in Lankershim, San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of Pepper Avenue in Lankershim, San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]. Pepper trees line the sidewalk on a lawn to the right, with a bed of smaller plants to the left, just before the street. Telephone poles can just barely be seen in the distance on the left side of the street, beneath the canopy of the tree foliage.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13177
title: A group of students outside of Lankershim School in San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1889

description: Photograph of a group of students outside of Lankershim School in San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1889. Four rows of boys and girls stand in front of a large, two-story Victorian building sporting a bell tower in a spire at its peak. The schoolmistress stands to the left looking right, with her hands folded behind her back. The order--from the frontmost row which is seated, to the back row--seems to be arranged by age, with the youngest students up front and the oldest furthest back. Most of the boys standing in the last row to the right are dressed in some kind of suit. Some of the children in the first row are barefoot.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17810
title: Portrait of Don and Doña Lopez, San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Don and Doña Lopez, San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]. The Lopezes are pictured from the hips up, facing straight ahead. Don Lopez is dressed in a dark tuxedo at left. His face shows signs of age, with wrinkles around the eyes and sallow cheeks; he sports a white, well-trimmed beard and thinning salt-and-pepper hair. Doña Lopez is dressed similarly in a dark dress made of what appears to be velvet. A chain hangs from her collar to her waist, and a brooch fastens the wrap around her neck. Her hair is white and pulled back, and her face as well shows the slackness of aging. The two lock hands with each other at the level of their waists. Photoprint reads: "Senor y Senora Lopez. Jeronimo and Catalina".
DOI: 10.5519/qd.8gp50k5w
title: Query on the Natural History Museum Data Portal (data.nhm.ac.uk) (390 records)
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17811
title: Portrait of General Andrés Pico, brother to former governor of Mexican Los Angeles, Pio Pico, San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of General Andrés Pico, brother to former governor of Mexican Los Angeles, Pio Pico, San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]. General Pico is pictured here from the knees up, dressed in his finery. He sports a vest over which a watch fob can be seen, a light shirt and a bowtie. He also appears to be wearing a long-tailed jacket to complete the suit. The General holds his right hand proudly at the breast of his coat, while he rests his other on the table next to him. His face shows signs of age, but does not appear to be one of a man more than sixty years old. His hair is thinning, but wild at the sides close to his ears, where his sideburns continue down to meet his moustache, making a 'w' of hair across his face. A decorative frame encircles the Governor's photograph. His eyes are large and opened wide.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17812
title: Toluca Lake community (?) in North Hollywood, once Lankershim, San Fernando Valley, California, 1894

description: Photograph of the Toluca Lake community (?) in North Hollywood, once Lankershim, San Fernando Valley, California, 1894. A number of craftsman-style houses can be seen interspersed among an orchard of trees, with the mountains visible in the background. To the right, in the distance, the Lankershim school can be seen.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14563
title: Exterior of the tomb of Benito Juarez, San Fernando Cemetery, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of the exterior of the tomb of Benito Juarez, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. Wreaths hang from every aspect of the free-standing portico stone crypt. An iron gate bars the entry. Two men are in front of the crypt which is built on a raised stone platform.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17813
title: Portrait of Senator Charles Maclay, San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.].

description: Photograph of a portrait of Senator Charles Maclay, San Fernando Valley, California, [s.d.]. The land owner and founder of the town of San Fernando can be seen in bust. He can be seen wearing a dark jacket, vest and bowtie. His face appears strong and vibrant, showing signs of aging no older than his late forties. His eyes are deep-set and intense, and his salt-and-pepper hair is full and quaffed to the left.