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DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17823
title: Barker Brother's Building on Flower Street near Seventh Street looking north, Los Angeles, ca.1926

description: Photograph of the Barker Brother's Building on Flower Street near Seventh Street looking north, Los Angeles, ca.1926. A two-story house with clapboard siding and a more traditional brick office-space stand in front of the highrise of the Barker Bros. Building, whose wide face dominates the background. Below, the signs on the buildings read "Wetherby-Kayser Shoe Co. Exclusive Agents for Johnston and Murphy Shoes for Men / Laird, Shober Shoes For Women", "R.A. Rowan & Co. 300 Title Insurance Building/ For Sale or Will Build to Suit Tenant", "Keys Made Here", "Auto Park", "Shoes Shined" and "Hello Folks [...] Eddie Peabody [...]".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3278
title: Entrance to the home of Jean Cazeaux, between Bronson Avenue and Clinton Street, Los Angeles, after 1885

description: Photograph of the entrance to the home of Jean Cazeaux, between Bronson Avenue and Clinton Street, Los Angeles, after 1885. The adobe, built in 1855, is just visible behind the tree foliage up the cobblestone steps to the right. Light from two windows can be seen. In the foreground the thick leaves of a Century Plant (Agave americana) obscure much of the left side of the photo.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5339
title: El Dorado roadhouse in Newhall, Los Angeles, 1903

description: Photograph of the El Dorado roadhouse in Newhall, Los Angeles, 1903. Newhall's original ranch store stands along the unpaved road with its entrance shaded by a wooden canopy over which its name is emblazoned. The building is in mild disrepair; some of the display windows seem either to be broken or to have paint or stains on them, while a smaller window to the one-story clapboarded building's right side seems to be partially boarded-up. Several planks in the left side of the canopy are also missing. The word "Pool" is painted on the left side of the main doors, while the word "Candy" is painted on their right. Trees and another small building are visible in the background to the left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5338
title: Monarch Saloon in Newhall, Los Angeles, 1903

description: Photograph of the Monarch Saloon in Newhall, Los Angeles, 1903. The corrugated front of the one-story, plank-built roadhouse brandishes its name "Monarch Saloon" in front of which a porch is shaded by a wooden canopy. Two single-pane windows and both a single door and a set of double doors are installed at the entrance. To the right, other shopfronts can be seen bearing the signs "Barbershop" and "Ricker Merchandise". Low-growing vegetation lines the left side of the saloon.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m268
title: Panoramic view of Hill Street between Second Street and Third Street looking west from City Hall, Los Angeles, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Hill Street between Second Street and Third Street looking west from City Hall, Los Angeles, ca.1900. Numerous two-story, victorian-style houses stand closely together, lining either side of Hill Street. Behind them, a small shrub- and tree-covered hill rises, on and behind which more of the city's houses can be seen. The gothic spires of a church is visible in the foreground at right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m272
title: Panoramic view of Hill Street and Third Street looking west, Los Angeles, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Hill Street and Third Street looking west, Los Angeles, ca.1900. The spires and roof of a gothic church make themselves evident in the right foreground, while across the street two-story Victorian homes stand closely next to one another at the foot of a small hill. More of the city's houses, as well as the spires of some larger residences, perhaps hotels or schools, can be seen in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2375
title: Birdseye view of the Los Angeles Plaza and the Plaza Church looking east from Fort Moore Hill, Los Angeles, 1890

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of the Los Angeles Plaza and the Plaza Church looking east from Fort Moore Hill, Los Angeles, 1890. A large set of concentric circular park grass can be seen surrounding what appears to be a fountain in the centerground at right. Across the street, in the foreground, a long, multi-annexed building with a belltower in the front can be seen, possibly the Plaza Church. Trees obscure the bottom left side of the photograph. In the distance a building can be seen bearing the sign "L.A. City Water Co.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17824
title: Birdseye view of Los Angeles between Broadway and Second Street looking northeast from the Third City Hall, ca.1888-1895

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles between Broadway and Second Street looking northeast from the Third City Hall, ca.1888-1895. The photograph appears to be taken from the Third City Hall tower. A tall, brick, medieval-looking building with spires which dominates much of the lower center of the photograph consists of two structures: on the right, the California Bank Building (built 1887), and to the left, the YMCA (built on or after 1887). Also in the frame are: the Roanoke Building (narrow four-story building with conical roof atop corner oriel, and "Hartford Fire Ins. Co." sign on its side); the Highland Villa (three story white building, in upper middle - built 1886, at Hill Street and 1st Street); and the Bradbury Mansion, which faced Olive Street at 3rd Street (the large Victorian at the top of the Hill Street, just up from the Highland Villa). Legible signs read, "Lockett & Patee Prescription Druggists", "Hartford Fire Ins. Co. / Frank M. Rust Ag't.", and "L. Zinnamon Tailors and Dressmakers / Trimmings". Rolling hills on which no houses have been built can be seen in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m30
title: Birdseye view of Sonora Town on North Broadway Street from Fort Moore Hill, Los Angeles, ca.1898

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of Sonora Town on North Broadway Street from Fort Moore Hill, Los Angeles, ca.1898. Tenement and commercial buildings stand closely packed along either side of Broadway, fronted by a row of telephone poles. Deeper into the town to the left, two four-story, Romanesque brick buildings are standing next to one another. What appears to be a tall flagpole stands toward the end of the street to the right of the photo. Hills and mountains are visible in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4937
title: Birdseye view of Sonora Town looking north from For Moore Hill (and/or residence of J.W. Robinson?), Los Angeles, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of Sonora Town looking north from For Moore Hill (and/or residence of J.W. Robinson?), Los Angeles, ca.1900. To the right, a large, Victorian mansion sits on a hill with two tiers of stone steps leading up to it. Further in the foreground and at center, several modest, single-level ranch-houses are situated on the slope of the hill near the road at left where groups of houses are spaced closely together. A windmill can be see next to the leftmost of the ranch-houses. A larch, arcing hill can be seen spreading itself across the horizon.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14569
title: Mexican child at needlework (drawn work), Agua Caliente, Mexico, ca.1905

description: Photograph of Mexican child at needlework (drawn work), Agua Caliente, Mexico, ca.1905. She sits in a small wooden chair with a wicker seat with her work drawn up to her against a larger chair. She is wearing a light-colored shawl about her head and neck. She is working outside. Several pots of flowers are in the image. The wall of a building is visible behind her.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1580
title: Crocker Mansion on Third Street and Olive Street, Los Angeles, 1890

description: Photograph of the Crocker Mansion on Third Street and Olive Street, Los Angeles, 1890. The three-story Victorian-style mansion stands at center, obscured to the left by some plant growth. The foundation is made of mortared brick, on top of which the mansion sports a porch and balcony identical to one another, held up by decorative colonnade. To the right, the mansion bears a cylindrical tower full of windows, annexed to the corner of the houses main structure. Gingerbread shingles cover the roof of each tier of the house. In the background at right, wooden steps can be seen leading up to a hill on which a stack of lumber is resting.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5570
title: Birdseye view of the community of Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, California, ca.1898

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of the community of Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, California, ca.1898. Mountainous terrain creates a crescent that encircles the inlet to Catalina Island. A large cargo ship is docked at center, while several other smaller masted ships, as well as some non-sail ships navigate the harbor around it. To the left, both on the flat land, as well as on the lower half of the mountainside, houses are situated closely to one another along a few main roads. On the edge of the mountain in the foreground, a single house with a spire, possibly a lighthouse, can be seen. The community, originally known as Shatto for George R. Shatto, was later renamed Avalon by Shatto's sister Mrs. E.J. Whitney. The name heralds from Tennyson's "Idylls of the King".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m129
title: View of Broadway looking north from Seventh Street, Los Angeles, ca.1907

description: Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from Seventh Street, Los Angeles, ca.1907. A streetcar navigates the rails that are embedded in the street at center, flanked to either side by commercial highrise buildings. Cables for the streetcar form a web across the street. Pedestrians browse the sidewalks on either side. Automobiles and horse-drawn carriages are parked along each side of the road. Legible signs on the buildings include "The House of Quality", "Bullock's", "Millinery", "Majestic Theatre Usual Matinees Week Starting Sunday Feb. 28", "Beresford Captures Trisco" and "Who's Your Friend? Harry Beresford".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m11025
title: The first automobile at Los Angeles' La Fiesta, decorated with roses, ca.1906

description: Photograph of the first automobile at Los Angeles' La Fiesta, decorated with roses, ca.1906. The automobile is mostly obscured by the flowers that decorate it, while an middle-age woman and a young girl in light-colored, formal dress sit in it beneath the shade of a parasol that the girl is holding. Several passing men walk by in a blur on the sidewalk behind the car. Trees and a picket fence can be seen in the background, as well as the front of a second flower-decorated car. Later, this became the site of the C. of C. building.; According to Mr. Richard Marcher, the Digital Library patron, this photograph is of Mrs. Frank A. Marcher (Clara Richardson Marcher) on the right and her daughter Ms. Bernice Marcher on the left driving a Waverly Electric, said to have been the second automobile in the city of Los Angeles.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m11040
title: The auto section of Los Angeles' La Fiesta parade, showing Miss Clark, 1906

description: Photograph of the auto section of Los Angeles' La Fiesta parade, showing Miss Clark, 1906. A line of automobiles decorated in roses drives down the street towards the left hand side of the frame. Two women in light dresses lead the way in the first car, followed by two women dressed in black holding a parasol over them. This color pattern of white then black continues down the line of cars. What appear to be office or tenement buildings with clapboard veneers stand behind several trees that line the sidewalk, one of them sporting a sign which reads, partially "Ameri[...]". Telephone polls also line the sidewalk.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17842
title: San Pedro breakwater being constructed, California, ca.1902

description: Photograph of the San Pedro breakwater being constructed, California, ca.1902. A long walkway of planks and rails extends and zigzags out to the right of the photo. A small shack can be seen on the bank where the planks begin. Further out, in the center and the at the end of the breakwater, the silhouettes of construction cranes are visible. Water stretches smooth and calm to either side.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1511
title: The Port of Los Angeles at the San Pedro Harbor, Los Angeles, ca.1905

description: Photograph of the Port of Los Angeles at the San Pedro Harbor, Los Angeles, ca.1905. Several modest, one-story rancher-style buildings line the left side of the road near the harbor. Railroad tracks can be seen embedded in the road, and a locomotive engine is visible stopped in the center foreground. A number of barrel kegs are strew near a bush behind it. Flat palate carts and stacks of lumber are evident in the background. Dead man's Island can be seen beyond the unfinished breakwater in the distance. The buildings of the Morgan Oyster Co. and the Western Fish Co. appear in the center.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17843
title: Beacon Street in San Pedro looking north, Los Angeles, ca.1910

description: Photograph of Beacon Street in San Pedro looking north, Los Angeles, ca.1910. Horse-drawn carriages ride up and down the muddy, unpaved street. To the left, the two-story Bank of San Pedro can be seen, whose clocktower reads 11:11. Utility poles are visible along the sidewalks, although some poles to the right in front of the Alexander building appear to have been edited out of the photo. A web of streetcar cables stretches between the two sides of the street. Lower than the sign on the frontmost building on the right which reads "Alexander [...]", more signs read "Los Angeles" and "Los Angeles Express". A sign in the extreme foreground to the left is partially visible and advertises real estate and loans. Cloth canopies are set up along the shopfronts lining the street.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7071
title: America's Great White Fleet passing the San Pedro breakwater to enter Los Angeles Harbor, Los Angeles, ca.1908

description: Photograph of the America's Great White Fleet passing the San Pedro breakwater to enter Los Angeles Harbor, Los Angeles, ca.1908. Beach houses are visible scattered along the side of a winding road lined by utility poles, while the United States Atlantic Battle Fleet, nicknamed the Great White Fleet, steams across the harbor in formation. The breakwater is visible to the right, in front of some wooden steps built as a way to climb the dunes. The fleet, which debuted on the world stage during the Spanish-American War was one of the markings of President Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" diplomacy.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14570
title: Mexican women doing drawn work, Agua Caliente, Mexico, ca.1905

description: Photograph of Mexican women doing drawn work, Agua Caliente, Mexico, ca.1905. Two are sitting and one is standing. One is wearing a shawl, one is wearing a dark dress, one is wearing a dark skirt with light-colored blouse. They are outside. Low plants (some in pots) are at their feet. A wall on which hangs two cages can be seen behind them.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17844
title: Blast from an underwater charge during the construction of the San Pedro Breakwater, Los Angeles, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the blast from an underwater charge during the construction of the San Pedro Breakwater, Los Angeles, ca.1900. Water sprays into the air, obscuring most of the construction crane that stands at the center of the shown portion of the uncompleted breakwater. The silhouettes of workers can be seen on either side of the explosion with tools in their hands, attending to the construction.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1026
title: Panoramic view of the San Pedro Harbor looking west, Los Angeles, 1900

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of the San Pedro Harbor looking west, Los Angeles, 1900. A collection of tall-masted ships are docked along the edge of the harbor with a three-masted ship docked towards the right. Dock buildings are situated along the planks. Legible signs read "Boats to Let" and "Boats to Bath House. 5¢". The breakwater can be seen along the horizon in the distance, moving right towards Dead Man's Island.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2036
title: A steam engine hauling rock for the construction of the San Pedro breakwater, ca.1899

description: Photograph of a steam engine hauling rock for the construction of the San Pedro breakwater, ca.1899. A locomotive engine stands at center, billowing steam, connected to a line of cargo palates loaded with rock. To the engine's left, a tank for holding liquid stands on the tracks with a warning that reads "This Tank is Fitted with Heated Pipes". Steps lead down the hill which is partially visible at the right; several women come down the furthest steps, while one stands at the bottom of the steps in the foreground, dressed in light-colored clothing. The masts of ships can be seen in the background.  Picture file card reads "Looking northerly up the main channel from a poin which, in 1945, would correspond to berth 81 or 82.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m989
title: Panoramic view of Front Street in the Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, ca.1905

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Front Street in the Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, ca.1905. A horse-drawn carriage moves down the dusty, unpaved street perpendicular to the streetcar behind in front of which the silhouette of a man can be seen crossing. Parked rail cars sit in a yard to the right, while a row of commercial shopfronts of varying size line up end to end along the street to the left. A tall building in the lefthand foreground corner reads "Mission" on the side. Flagpoles line the harbor close to the water in the background at right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4487
title: Panoramic view of Los Angeles Harbor, California, ca.1905

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles Harbor, California, ca.1905. Trains move across the tracks in the foreground, hauling lumber. In the immediate background, a number of ships are docked all along the harbor, a large ship in the center having four masts, to the right of which a small depot building stands. This view "would now (1945) correspond with Fourth Street at Harbor Blvd. Fifth Street may be seen at the crossing of the tracks to the edge of the harbor at the right."
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4563
title: Crowd at Sawtelle Soldiers' Home during a visit by President William McKinley, Los Angeles, May 9, 1901

description: Photograph of a crowd at Sawtelle Soldiers' Home during a visit by President William McKinley, Los Angeles, May 9, 1901. Men and women sit in chairs and stand on the lawn outside the porch of a large building, which features a clock at its center roof flanked to either side by two spired towers. Other spectators have climbed off the balcony extending from this roof and are now sitting on the roof below. The porch itself is decorated in an American flag motif. Palms and other trees are interspersed on the lawn. A man on crutches and a man with a can walk down the main thoroughfare towards the gathering on the porch.; Written on back of photoprint: "See history in Newmark: 'Sixty Years in Southern California', page 586".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5852
title: Ocean Avenue in Long Beach looking south from Pine Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1910

description: Photograph of Ocean Avenue in Long Beach looking south from Pine Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1910. A women in a light-colored dress, a woman in a dark-colored dress and a man in a dark suit all stand at the corner in the foreground under a canopy which reads "Cigars". Next to them, underneath one of the poles supporting the streetcar cables, a second man stands obscured by a small palm tree while a horse and buggy ride over the streetcar tracks embedded in the unpaved road. Men and women stand and walk further down the sidewalk, underneath a canopy that reads, partially, "Shells", while two streetcars run along the opposite side of the street. A few civilians can be seen enjoying the surf past the buildings near the shore at right. Back in the foreground, a man in a suit and hat walks in, also from the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5911
title: Long Beach looking northwest to the San Pedro Hills, Los Angeles, ca.1905

description: Photograph of Long Beach looking northwest to the San Pedro Hills, Los Angeles, ca.1905. People sun themselves on the beach to the left, although some of them remain fully clothed. To the right, vendor stands and other commercial huts stand, crowded by customers. The main building in the centerground displays signs which read "Palace Lunch-Room / Fish Dinner [...]", "Lemonade 5¢", and "Popcorn Peanuts Crackerjack". A man tends a cart a little further in the distance which reads "Cream / Bread". The silhouette of the hills runs evenly across the horizon.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5851
title: Portrait of thirteen visitors at Long Beach modeling their bathing suits, Los Angeles, ca.1910

description: Photographic portrait of thirteen visitors at Long Beach modeling their bathing suits, Los Angeles, ca.1910. The beachgoers are grouped in a line, standing foot deep in the surf from the ocean with other beachgoers visible enjoying the deeper water behind them. Three women stand at the left of the line, all in bonnets, two of them bending over to wring out the knee-length skirts of their bathing costumes. Three younger girls in similar dress stand to their right, holding their bonnets in their hands. At center, the eldest man of the group stands with a youthful physique held closely by a dark t-shirt and shorts. A large, middle-aged woman stand next to him, her bonnet looped in the crook of her arm. An adolescent boy stands in front of them in a cap, loose shirt with three-quarters length sleeves and knee-length shorts, placing his hands behind his head and twisting slightly at the waist. Next, three young ladies, perhaps in their mid or late teens, stand in front of a similarly-aged boy, holding the skirts of their bathing costumes out at their sides. A young boy sneaks his own pose into the picture behind them.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5929
title: Pine Avenue from First Street in Long Beach, Los Angeles, ca.1910

description: Photograph of Pine Avenue from First Street in Long Beach, Los Angeles, ca.1910. Horse-drawn carriages ride down and are parked along either side of the street, in which the rails for streetcars can be seen. Commercial and tenement buildings line both sides of the street as well, the building in the left foreground boasting both picture windows with molded decoration and a gothic clock tower just visible behind its main structure. To the right, a bicycle leans unattended on the sidewalk behind a carriage which reads "[...] Real Estate". Other legible signs include: "Restaurant [...]", "[...] Supply [...]", and "Meals 75 Orders Day". The relief carving around the face of the clock tower reads "First National Bank". Utility poles line the street to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5915
title: View of Long Beach from the pier, Los Angeles, ca.1910

description: Photograph of a view of Long Beach from the pier, Los Angeles, ca.1910. Men and women walk the boards in suits and dresses, elevated above the street below, some carrying parasols. Small concession stands are pictured at the left with signs reading "Last Chance Lunch Counter", "Clam Chowder / Fish", and "Try our Sweet Pop Corn Balls / Fresh Every Five Minues", as well as a partially legible sign boasting "Cigar". At the end of the boards on the pier a small building is situated with what appears to be a stuffed camel on its roof. The gothic clock tower of the First National Bank can be seen surrounded by highrises sporting other signs which read "The Norwood / Furnished Rooms", "Bruce's Corner Post C / Office BAY CITY / W.L. Dinsmoor. / Hazelwood [...] Bros.", "The Butler / Furnished Rooms", "Long Beach Reality Co.", "The National Bank" and banner strung across the street in the distance reading "[...]dville Tabernacle".