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DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1071
title: Exterior shot of the Pacific Railway Company's Power Cable House, ca.1890

description: Photograph of an exterior shot of the Pacific Railway Company's Power Cable House on the southwest corner of Seventh Street and Grand Avenue, ca.1890. Two street cars, each with a trailer car, come from either side of the corner in front of the brick complex of the Power Cable House, from the corner of which an American flag flies. Three men stand to the side of the leftmost trolley with a fourth behind them. One stand in front of the right trolley. Another group of people poses on the corner of the sidewalk, eight out of the twelve with numbers scratched above their heads on the negative. A sign to the extreme left on the complex reads "Chop House". The numbers above the individuals' heads identify the following: "1) Supt. Jas. A. Akin; 2) R.W. Darley, Stenographer; 3) Thos. A. Cole, Inspector; 4) S. McClure, Roadmaster; 5) Wm. M. Garland, Auditor; 6) James T. Chadsey, Cable Splicer; 7) Frank Van Vleck, Engineer; 8) E.L. Lewis, Asst. Superintendent.". A second note on the picture file card reads "Superintendant Jas. J. Sidon" contradicting the listing.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m47
title: View looking southwest of the residential area surrounding Broadway, Temple Street and Hill Street, ca.1880

description: Photograph of a panoramic view looking southwest of the residential area surrounding Broadway, Temple Street and Hill Street, ca.1880. Two-story victorian-style houses fill the frame, situated on top of or at the foot of the hill in the background on which several of the roads converge. The houses are interspersed with trees.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2558
title: View of Lincoln Heights looking east from Elysian Park, April 1900-1930

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of the Lincoln Heights area of Los Angeles looking east from Elysian Park, showing a pigeon farm, April 1900-1930. Eight long coops for housing the pigeons are situated in the foreground, next to the silt from a riverbed to the left. An overpass runs above Figueroa Street into what is mainly a residential area of Los Angeles, showing blocks of rancher houses packed closely together. Mountains are visible along the horizon.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m147
title: View of Broadway looking north from Tenth Street (Olympic Boulevard), Los Angeles, ca.1929

description: Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from Tenth Street (Olympic Boulevard), Los Angeles, ca.1929. Six people stand waiting in the foreground for the trolley car that is making its way to them from the distance down the street where automobiles are parking and driving and highrise buildings line either side, riddled with advertisements. Compares to: CHS-6330. Photograph shows Broadway ca.1890.; Legible signs include: "Western Costume Company--the largest costume and theatrical supply house in the world", "Masquerade Costumes for All Occasions", "Ground Lease 99 Years / Phone Owner 593-201", "Red Crown Gasoline", "Keys Made While You Wait / Keys / Automobile Keys", "United Auto Park / Open Day and Night", "Go", "United Lunch", "United Artists", "See Mary Pickford in 'Coquette'", "Climbing the Golden Stairs", "Danse", "The White [...]", "Blackstone's", "Majestic", "Tally's", "Lowe's State", "Southern California Music Co.", "The New Orpheum Building / Joe Toplinzky Co., Agent", "Radio Supply Co. 912-14 S.Broadway", "System Auto Parks Inc.", "[...]-Kearney", "Southern California Gas Company", "Tumarkin's", "Original Creations / The Very Latest and Best at Half-Price", "E.J. Weston Beverage Supplies", "Malt / Hops" and "Rooms".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12631
title: Portrait of men standing outside of a Vernon Street Railway Car barn on the corner of 22nd Street and Central Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1890

description: Photographic portrait of men standing outside of a Vernon Street Railway Car barn on the corner of 22nd Street and Central Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1890. The barn sports a clapboard veneer and is double-tiered, its primary building being two stories tall, while its longer annex is only one. Ten men pose in front of two streetcars parked to the right of the image while other men tend horses; one to the right of the main opening of the barn, the other to the left. The numbers 1 through 10 have been written in marker at the bottom right margin of the negative.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14603
title: Pepper tree seen through the ruined arches of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, 1900

description: Photograph of a pepper tree seen through the ruined arches of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, California, 1900. The pepper tree is said to be the first pepper tree in California.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m494
title: View of Second Street to the west of Central Avenue looking east, Los Angeles, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a view of Second Street to the west of Central Avenue looking east, Los Angeles, ca.1900. The arm of a lowering road block stands raised to the right alongside the sidewalk, which is lined with utility poles. In the distance, a horse-drawn carriage and pedestrians can be seen. The Pattern and Staves Lumber and Fuel Co. Building is evident just in from the brickyard enclosed by picket fence in the right foreground. A streetcar track runs through the center of the unpaved street.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m657
title: View of Naud Junction, an industrial area of Main Street, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a view of Naud Junction, an industrial area of Main Street half a mile northeast of downtown Los Angeles, ca.1900. Two sets of railroad tracks intersect each other at the center of the frame, with the Bottling Works to the left and the Los Angeles Well Tool Works to the right. The Western Iron Works building is visible in the distance, surrounded by utility poles. A basin-tower behind the Bottling works reads "Depot [...] Buffalo Pabst".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12438
title: Cable-car making its way along Pasadena Avenue the day the line opened, 1880-1890

description: Photograph of a cable-car making its way along Pasadena Avenue north of Sycamore Grove the day the line opened, 1880-1890. Dry natural clay has made rubble in a mound at the left foreground. Several people hang out from the side of the car, standing on the running boards. Behind a decorative stone wall, the home of Judge M.T. Allen can be seen on a hill to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3454
title: Los Angeles Times Building the day after the bombing, October 1, 1910

description: Photograph of the bombed Los Angeles Times Building taken the day after the bombing by street car conductor C.C. Tarter, October 1, 1910. The remains of the brick Times building appear to still be smoldering the day after it was bombed by Union activists James and John MacNamara, which killed 22 employees. Firemen continue to tend to the building, whose left side can completely collapsed into rubble. A crowd of spectators is visible in the lower left hand foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5490
title: Fishermen in their rowboat in Catalina Harbor, ca.1886-1887

description: Photograph of fishermen in their rowboat in Catalina Harbor, ca.1886-1887. Seven fishermen stand or sit outside or in the beached boat at center, tending to it. A second boat is docked in the distance to the left, while a two-masted ship navigates the harbor in the distance to the left, in front of the larger of the two rock faces that comprise the strait at the center of the horizon.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5486
title: View of the east side of Catalina Harbor, ca.1886-1887

description: Photograph of a view of the east side of Catalina Harbor, ca.1886-1887. Several men attend a flatboat on a jutting bank in the distance to the right while a two-masted ship makes its way out of the strait made by two rock faces. Seagulls gather in the shallow water touching shore. The beach, covered by washed-up kelp, fills much of the foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17918
title: View of the Santa Monica coast looking south from Ninety-nine Steps on the Palisades, ca.1889

description: Photograph of a view of the Santa Monica coast looking south from Ninety-nine Steps on the Palisades, ca.1889. A striated rock face makes a cliff to the left side of the image, where a man can be seen sitting on a bench, the pier evident farther off into the distance. The beach and beach shacks are visible below, along with the Pacific Ocean. Trees are visible above to the left behind the man.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14604
title: Ruins of the old entrance to the garden at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, California, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the ruins of the old entrance to the garden at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, California, ca.1900. A palm tree is visible in the distance. Beyond that is a low grassy hill.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6645
title: Eckert & Hopf's Restaurant in North Beach, Santa Monica, ca.1892

description: Photograph of North Beach restaurant, Eckert and Hopf's, seen from the end of the wharf, Santa Monica, ca.1892. Banners fly from atop the towers of the restauraunt. Many people are on the beach. Several other buildings are in the image. An American flag flies from atop one. The Pacific Palisades are visible in the background. Trees line the top of the palisades.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6619
title: View of the Santa Monica Bluff, looking north from Ninety-nine Steps, ca.1886-1887

description: Photograph of a view of the Santa Monica Bluff, looking north from Ninety-nine Steps, ca.1886-1887. Striated cliffs line the narrow beach to the right, the Pacific Ocean lapping in from the left. Shrub growth and reeds populate the beach at the bottom of the cliffs.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8389
title: Sketch of the San Bernardino Mission by H.C. Ford, July 25, 1881

description: Photograph of a sketch of the San Bernardino Mission by H.C. Ford, July 25, 1881. The drawing shows the silhouette of what appear to be two adults and one child standing at center, looking at the fallen adobe walls of the dilapidated mission. A small shack can be seen inside their perimeter. Shrubs dapple the flatland, and a few trees can be seen to the left of the mission. Mountains have been rendered in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8390
title: Sketch of the San Bernardino Mission by H.C. Ford, 1881

description: Photograph of a sketch of the San Bernardino Mission by H.C. Ford, 1881. The fallen adobe walls of the mission stand at center, behind which a small shack can be seen. Two other, smaller shacks stand to the left and the right. Clusters of short trees line the back of the scene, behind which a mountain ridge is visible, dipping in lower towards the center. Writing at the bottom left of the sketch reads "Work of Henry Chapman Ford [...]" while writing at the right reads "Ruins of San Bernardino Mission sts/2.00".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8392
title: Sketch of the San Bernardino Mission by H.C. Ford, showing the Cucamonga Mountain Range, 1880

description: Photograph of a sketch of the San Bernardino Mission by H.C. Ford, showing the Cucamonga Mountain Range, 1880. The fallen walls of the mission stand right of center and are rendered in enough detail as to suggest being made of brick. A shack composed of two similar brick walls stands to the extreme right and shows no other walls, its roof beams evident without shingles. A smaller, second and completed house stands to the left, amidst a cluster of tree growth. A peak of the Cucamonga mountains has been rendered in line drawing in the background. Writing at the far bottom right reads "[...]/150".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17919
title: Drawing depicting the Mission San Luis Obispo by Edward Borein, ca.1870

description: Photograph of a drawing of the Mission San Luis Obispo by Edward Borein, ca.1870. The heavily cross-hatched drawing depicts a large adobe building with an elevated portico and what are likely terracotta shingles on the roof. Pedestrians walk the ground below the portico, as well as navigate on horseback. To the left, a horseman and what appears to be a priest speak with several other individuals on the portico above them. A second, taller building is partially visible behind the main structure, topped by a cross. A small shed with a taller two-story building behind it are pictured to the far right. The two-story building features a balcony. Trees and smooth mountain slopes can be seen in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17920
title: Drawing depicting the Mission San Antonio de Padua by Edward Borein, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a drawing of the Mission San Antonio de Padua by Edward Borein, ca.1900. The heavily cross-hatched drawing shows two horsemen in the center foreground, in front of the tall, adobe mission which features a two-tiered roof and a long portico extending from the main building to the left. A small cross is affixed to the first tier of the roof, a much taller one, about five times the size, is attached to the second tier. Two riders have dismounted lean underneath a tree next to their horses to the right. While more horsemen and other pedestrians stand along the outside wall of the mission in the background. A tree casts a shadow from outside the frame that falls in the foreground in front of the first two horsemen.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17921
title: Drawing of the Mission Carmel (San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo) by Edward Borein, ca.1860

description: Photograph of a drawing of the Mission Carmel (San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo) by Edward Borein, ca.1860. The heavily cross-hatched drawing shows two horsemen poised on a hill in front of the bell tower of the adobe mission atop which a dome is situated. The scene suggest night time, the sky darkened by concentric circles of cross-hatching and a large shadow cast across the scene to the left where a dilapidated portion of the mission is just barely visible, extending from the missions main building at right, which is well-lit in the drawing's anterior side.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m744
title: View of Spring Street looking south from Temple Block, Los Angeles, ca.1876

description: Photograph of a view of Spring Street looking south from Temple Block, Los Angeles, ca.1876. No building exceeds two stories in this scene, where a church to the left and the residential area of the city are visible beyond the commercial shops that line the street to either side in the foreground. Horse-drawn railcar tracks are visible in the middle of the unpaved road. The two-story building to the right advertises "Furniture & Bedding" as well as "Real Estate [...] Houses, Lots & Farms for Sale. / F. Kent.". Other signs along Spring Street include: "Express Printing Office", "[...] Estate Brokers", "Plumbing", "E.Butterick's Paper Patterns / Sewing Machines for Rent & for Sale", "Herald Steam Printing House" and "Mercantile Law Collection Rooms". Several of the city's houses are situated on the hill pictured in the right distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m599
title: View of Main Street looking south from Pico House, ca.1874

description: Photograph of a view of Main Street looking south from Pico House, ca.1874. The Fashion Livery Stable is visible prominently along the right hand side of the street, with more commercial shops following to the left towards the end of the street. Houses are visible behind it and in the distance to the far right along the hillside. Horse-drawn streetcar tracks are visible in the unpaved road and the plank tops of other buildings can be seen partially to the left. Several muddy puddles stand along the center of the road. Other legible shop signs include: "Lafayette's Store / [...] Gent's / Furnishing Goods / Provisions".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m343
title: View of Temple Street looking west from Temple Block, Los Angeles, ca.1874

description: Photograph of a view of Temple Street looking west from Temple Block, Los Angeles, ca.1874. The modest one-story building of the Saint Athanasius Episcopal Church stands in the center foreground with the roofs of several other, smaller buildings in the extreme foreground in front of it. Beyond it, to the left, the first Los Angeles High School (built in 1872/1873) stands on Pound Cake Hill. The street is unpaved.; In the original record, the LAHS was described as standing on Fort Moore Hill. The school, however, was moved to Fort Moore Hill in 1882 -- 10 years after it was built.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14644
title: Mission San Juan Capistrano, showing arches from the southwest side, California, ca.1900

description: Photograph of Mission San Juan Capistrano, showing arches from the southwest side, California, ca.1900. Three sides of the long rows of arches which once formed a large rectangle are visible. Most are in a state of ruin. The mission is visible through the arches at right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17922
title: View of Main Street looking north from Temple Block, ca.1874

description: Photograph of a view of Main Street looking north from Temple Block, ca.1874. The Victorian-style office building of the E. Rolfenstein Photographic Gallery stands three stories tall in the left foreground, a sign posted over its first-level overhang which reads  "R. Hellman" under which four men are standing. A horse-drawn carriage is parked along the unpaved street to the right, next to a sign that reads "Oyst[ers]", with a sign that reads "Furniture" a little further off in the background. More commercial buildings line the street to either side, stretching to the horizon.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12629
title: Exterior view of the first electric power house in Los Angeles, possibly on Maple Avenue, ca.1890

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the first electric power house in Los Angeles, possibly on Maple Avenue, ca.1890. The scene, framed by a circle, shows two shacks situated at a right angle from one another, the backmost shack having a long chimney almost twice its height. Beyond the buildings to the left, a short water tower can be seen, along with the top of third building. A metal barrel sits on top of wooden scaffolding to the right, where a bare tree can also be seen.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1984
title: Arch Rock in Santa Monica, ca.1889

description: Photograph of Arch Rock in Santa Monica, ca.1889. A man stands in a suit and hat under a natural archway made in the rock face above him. Rounded stones surround him, and the shore is visible to the right. A ridge extends out across the horizon behind him. The early Coast Highway is apparently passing under the arch in the photo. The arch was later destroyed by the Ringe family in 1906 so they could move heavy equipment into the area.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17923
title: Exterior view of the Southern Pacific Railroad Station at the Yuma Hotel in Yuma, Arizona, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the Southern Pacific Railroad Station at the Yuma Hotel in Yuma, Arizona, ca.1900. The two-story hotel is visible to the right, with a man in a horse-drawn cart and several bystanders partially visible in front, obscured by several trees. A train of railroad cars pulls past along the tracks to the left. A post-and-rail fence separates the road to the right from the hotel, just as a picket fence separates the hotel building from the front lawn a little further back. A collection of buildings is visible along the horizon in the distance above the hotel's roof.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12356
title: Standard Oil siphon gushing oil at the Midway-Sunset Oil Field of Kern County, ca.1920

description: Photograph of a Standard Oil siphon gushing oil at Taft in the Midway-Sunset Oil Field of Kern County, ca.1920. The tapered scaffolding of the oil siphon jets oil into the air, which is blowing it to the left. Three men stand around a small shed positioned in front of the siphon. Wooden debris surround them.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2928
title: View of Dead Man's Island from the harbor entrance, San Pedro, ca.1912

description: Photograph of a view of Dead Man's Island from the harbor entrance, San Pedro, ca.1912. The small, rocky island is pictured at the center of the frame, surrounded by water. A ladder has been leaned up against the top rock face to the left, and the mast of a ship is visible above its peak. The Island was removed and used for landfill in the construction of Reservation Point in 1929.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4397
title: The first Los Angeles High School on North Broadway and Temple Street being moved to Sands Street, ca.1888

description: Photograph of the first Los Angeles High School on North Broadway and Temple Street being moved to Sands Street, ca.1888. The two-story complex stands elevated to almost twice its height by scaffolding at center, the hour and minute hands of its clock tower apparently removed. Underneath, a streetcar remains in operation, navigating the unpaved street along with some pedestrians. To the left, the Clifton House is visible, a two story Victorian structure with a balcony and a front stairway down which several men are descending. More houses are visible in the background to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m240
title: View of Flower Street looking north from Pico Boulevard, 1897

description: Photograph of a view of Flower Street looking north from Pico Boulevard, 1897. A cable-car makes its way down the unpaved road, with a second set of tracks to the left of it, passing a church to the right. Sidewalks line either side of the street. To the left, a post-and-rail fence surrounds what appears to be a chicken coop and a small pasture. Trees fill the distance to either side.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m693
title: Portrait of brothers Ralph and Clarence Kinkaid with a load of hay on Pico Street, ca.1888

description: Photographic portrait of brothers Ralph and Clarence Kinkaid with a load of hay on Pico Street looking east from Figueroa Street, ca.1888. The two brothers sit at the help of a horse-drawn wagon loaded with hay, which spills out from either side. The residence of Judge O. Melveny is located on the northeast corner of the street while the Fred Barnen residence is located on the southeast and the Horace Bell on the southwest. The Kinkaid's ranch itself is located on the northwest corner. Trees line either side of Pico with buildings visible to the right and utility poles and a hedge row to the left. Streetcar rails are visible in the unpaved road.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m745
title: View of Spring Street looking south from Temple Avenue, 1892-1896

description: Photograph of a view of Spring Street looking south from Temple Avenue, 1892-1896. Pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages fill the street to the left and the right, lining the sidewalks along with commercial buildings to either side. Legible signs include: "Thellman, Waldeck & Co.", "E. Morey", "[...]ne, Grocer / Coffees and Teas", "London Clothing Co.", "[...] Lunch Oyster House", and "Fagan". The Hotel Nadeau is visible at the end of the street which is paved by cobblestones and in which two sets of streetcar rails can be seen. These cable cars stopped operations on Spring Street between First and Temple on February 12, 1896. The first electric car over Fourth Street was dated February 27, 1892.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14605
title: Mission San Juan Capistrano, showing the broken dilapidated arches from the southwest side, California, 1900

description: Photograph of Mission San Juan Capistrano, showing the broken dilapidated arches from the southwest side, California, 1900. Three sides of the long rows of arches which once formed a large rectangle are visible. Most are in a state of ruin. The mission is visible through the arches at right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12474
title: Pico Heights electric car, the first in Los Angeles, ca.1887

description: Photograph of a Pico Heights electric car, the first in Los Angeles, ca.1887. Sixteen people stand in or around the car. Three people, one of whom is the engineer, attend the operator's car in front, while the rest congregate around the passenger car trailing it to the left. A sign spans the top of the cable car reading: "Plaza, Pico Street, Pico Heights".