cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m797
title: Woman at the junction of Spring Street and Main Street looking north, ca.1906

description: Photograph of a woman at the junction of Spring Street and Main Street looking north, ca.1906. The woman is visible in the extreme foreground, surrounded by telephone poles and streetlamp posts. Debris lines the sidewalk on either side of a building at center sporting an Anheiser-Busch billboard. In the background at right, the Richmond Stables advertises boarding.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m627
title: Governor Downey's Residence on Main Street north of Fourth Street on the west side, ca.1883

description: Photograph of Governor Downey's Residence on Main Street north of Fourth Street on the west side, ca.1883. Tall topiary shrubs line the front of a brick two-story, split-level home, the windows of which sport several types of Romanesque molding around their frames. To the left, in the shorter segment of the home, a porch with an overhang supported by colonnade can be seen from behind the shrubs. A brick and wrought-iron fence, approximately seven feet high, demarcates the boundary between the lawn and the sidewalk. Taller trees obscure most of the sky in the background. Telephone wires cut across the frame in the extreme foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m10506
title: A bicycle parade for Griffith Park on Main Street at Ninth Street, Los Angeles, 1904

description: Photograph of a bicycle parade for Griffith Park on Main Street at Ninth Street, Los Angeles, 1904. A large crowd of bicyclists gathers at the side of the unpaved street, in which the tracks for the cable car in the background can be seen. Several shops are evident to the left whose signs read "Harness Sa[...]les", "Billards and Pool" and "Furnished Rooms". At left, a group of spectators stand on the corner of the sidewalk.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m196
title: View of Figueroa Street at Adams Street looking north, Los Angeles, ca.1896

description: Photograph of a view of Figueroa Street at Adams Street looking north, Los Angeles, ca.1896. The unpaved road is lined to either side by a sidewalk; trees are planted to the left. Telephone poles line it to the right, behind which a house is just barely evident from under tree foliage. The roof of another building is partially visible in the extreme background to the right of the road. A bicycle can be seen leaning against the curb in the extreme left foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14539
title: Women making tortillas in prison, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of a group of eight women making tortillas in prison, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. They are kneeling on the cobbled floor, bent over stone work areas which feed onto two wooden planks. Five other women (including a child?) are visible in the image. The walls of the prison surround them.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1177
title: Path through Longstreet homestead on Palm Avenue and Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1886

description: Photograph of a path through the Lucy[?] Longstreet homestead on Palm Avenue and Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1886. The path is pictured at center, lined by palm trees, taken from Adams Boulevard. At left, the porch of a nearby building can be seen, while in the far distance at center, a two-story mansion is visible. The residence has been mistakenly[?] associated with Confederate General Longstreet probably based on a letter to the Herald Express (1940 February 5): "About 1875, Confederate General Longstreet acquired the 40 acres on the northeast corner of Figueroa and West Adams streets. He did what was possibly up to that time the most extensive grading job done in Los Angeles. He made a pleasing slope up to where the house was to be built, a slope such as we used to read about in southern love stories. He built a mansion of Southern grandeur and elegance and made the entrance from West Adams, between the palms which he planted, a southern romance. He planted the whole place with orange trees and it became the showplace of Southern California...".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m199
title: Mrs. Henry Hazard on her bicycle at the corner of Washington and Figueroa Streets looking north, Los Angeles, ca.1898

description: Photograph of Mrs. Henry Hazard on her bicycle at the corner of Washington and Figueroa Streets looking north, Los Angeles, ca.1898. Two carriages and another bicyclist can be seen on the unpaved street behind her. A man walks along the unpaved sidewalk on the left side of the photo. The shadow of another man can be seen in the right foreground. Telephone poles are evident in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17841
title: City Gardens on the corner of San Pedro and Eighth Streets, Los Angeles, ca.1896

description: Photograph of City Gardens on the corner of San Pedro and Eighth Streets, Los Angeles, ca.1896. The garden, established in 1878 is visible behind an approximately three-foot tall picket fence which sports a gate covered by an archway that reads "City Gardens". Two basic craftsman-style buildings with clapboard veneer are mostly obscured by several tall trees, above which a weathervain showing signs of disrepair can be seen. An unpaved road runs across the foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m714
title: View of San Pedro Street looking north from Washington Street, Los Angeles, ca. June 1896

description: Photograph of view of San Pedro Street looking north from Washington Street, Los Angeles, ca. June 1896. To the left side of the unpaved street is the curb of a sidewalk, at the corner of which a bicycle leans against a tree. A picket fence and the corner of a house are evident from behind treecover. To the right, telephone poles make their way down the sidewalk at regular intervals. Further in, more picket fences, these showing signs of disrepair, separate the sidewalk from the houses that are partially visible from behind more trees. In the extreme foreground are what appear to be deep tracks that have been furrowed into the road.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m242
title: Two steers wading into a stream on what is described as "Glendale Boulevard, about 50' north of Montana Street", Los Angeles, ca.1904

description: Photograph of two steers wading into a stream on what is described as "Glendale Boulevard, about 50' north of Montana Street", Los Angeles, ca.1904. The two steers make their way down the slope of a small embankment, backed by heavy tree cover.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m243
title: Procession of cars on Glendale Boulevard west of the Sunset Boulevard Bridge, Los Angeles, ca.May 14, 1904

description: Photograph of a procession of cars on Glendale Boulevard west of the Sunset Boulevard Bridge, Los Angeles, ca.May 14, 1904. A line of six early-model automobiles can be seen from behind driving along the unpaved road, in which railcar tracks can be seen. To the right, a crowd of children stand to the side of a one-story house. To the left, two adult men can be seen from behind. Another man looks toward them further in the distance at left. Further behind him is a horse and carriage standing by the roadside, perpendicular to the cars. Homes can be seen in the hillside in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m322
title: A car on the junction of Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards, looking east, ca.1904

description: Photograph of a car on the junction of Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards, looking east, ca.1904. The early topless motorcarriage drives along an unpaved road in which the tracks for a railcar are embedded. A unicycle sits off to the roadside. Trees and cablecar poles line the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m321
title: A woman selling pumpkins on Sunset Boulevard just west of Western Avenue looking north, ca.1896

description: Photograph of a woman selling pumpkins on Sunset Boulevard just west of Western Avenue looking north, ca.1896. Picture file card reads "opposite of Fox Studios". The woman, in a dress and hat, stands at a table on which several pumpkins are stacked, and one lays to the side, cut open. A line of small trees is visible in the background across the unpaved road. Tree foliage hangs in from above.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8538
title: Cyclists participating in sponsored by the Los Angeles Times Bicycle Club Run, Pico Boulevard near Western Avenue, looking east, September 4, 1895

description: Photograph of cyclists participating in sponsored by the Los Angeles Times Bicycle Club Run, Pico Boulevard near Western Avenue, looking east, September 4, 1895. A line of nine men and women ride their bicycles down an unpaved road in what is apparently open countryside. The Immaculate Heart Convent can be seen to the right as well as a house that is partially visible behind a patch of trees in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m373
title: Washington Hill on Washington Boulevard, looking east from Normandie Avenue, June, 1896

description: Photograph of Washington Hill on Washington Boulevard, looking east from Normandie Avenue, June, 1896. Telephone poles line the left-hand side of the unpaved street along a post-and-wire fence, while trees line the right-hand side. Pedestrians can be seen in the roadway in the extreme background of the picture. What appears to be the spire of a church is also visible over the treetops.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m372
title: Washington Street looking west from Maple Avenue, June, 1896

description: Photograph of Washington Street looking west from Maple Avenue, June, 1896. Railcar tracks are embedded in the unpaved road, running from right to left. The street running perpendicular to this is without rail tracks and is lined by a row of houses to the left. Hore-drawn carriages drive along in the distance where St. Vincent's Church on Grand Avenue can be seen. A bicycle has been leaned against a telephone pole in the foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14540
title: Side view of Church of Santa Rosa, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of a side view of Church of Santa Rosa, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. In the foreground, a man dressed in a dark jacket and hat stands on the roof of a building across the street from the church, looking away from the camera at the church. The church has a large ornate dome in the middle topped with a cross. There is also a bell tower, topped with a cross. Several people are visible at the foot of the church in the street.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m370
title: Washington Boulevard at Hoover Street, June 1896

description: Photograph of Washington Boulevard at Hoover Street, June 1896. A shopfront can be seen along the unpaved road in which two sets of railcar tracks are embedded. A sign on the side of a nearby shop reads "General Blacksmithing, Use Mexican Mustang Liniment for Man and Beast". A man is visible walking into the frame at left, while a horse and carriage can be seen down the road. Telephone poles are also visible.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m367
title: The beginning of the Santa Monica Bicycle path on Washington Boulevard and Third Avenue, looking west, Los Angeles, June 1896

description: Photograph of the beginning of the Santa Monica Bicycle path on Washington Boulevard and Third Avenue, looking west, Los Angeles, June 1896. A bicycle is leaned against a trellis which reads "Cycle Path" across its top. A horse and buggy can be seen making its way along Washington Street. To the left, a homestead with several buildings and a weathervain is visible. Telephone poles along Washington are also evident.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1269
title: Mondonville Hotel on Washington Boulevard near Arlington Road, Los Angeles, ca.1896

description: Photograph of the Mondonville Hotel on Washington Boulevard near Arlington Road, ca.1896. The hotel, later the Army and Navy Clubhouse, sports a clapboard veneer and two stories. The second story shows a small balcony, and the first story shows a porch on which there are several chairs. A bicycle leans against a post on the porch. Signs on the building read "Restaurant" and "Refreshment All Hours". To the left and right of the building, fences can be seen. To the immediate right of the building, a small archway is visible. In the foreground at right, the back end of a carriage can be seen. Trees are evident in the background. The Hotel was put out of business in 1900.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m371
title: Santa Monica Cycle Path on Washington Boulevard at Western Avenue, looking west, Los Angeles, June 1900

description: Photograph of the Santa Monica Cycle Path on Washington Boulevard at Western Avenue, looking west, Los Angeles, June 1900. A bicycle stands upright in the middle of the unpaved path, while a rider on his bicycle can be seen in the distance, pedaling along a row of telephone poles. Trees and shrubbery obscure the right edge of the photo.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m374
title: Stuart's Orchard on Washington Boulevard and the corner of Western Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1899

description: Photograph of Stuart's Orchard on Washington Boulevard and the corner of Western Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1899. A horse stands among the trees on the orchard plot in the foreground. To the left, a one-story building sports a sign that reads "4 Mile House". Another one-story building sits across the unpaved street, in front of which a man is standing. An agricultural field with rolled haybales fills the background. In the left foreground, a large cactus is partially visible.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m387
title: Bicycle race on Western Avenue just north of Santa Monica Boulevard, September 1896

description: Photograph at a bicycle race on Western Avenue just north of Santa Monica Boulevard, September 1896. A crowd stands at the center of the photograph, many individuals in which hold their bicycles next to them. Horsedrawn carriages are visible a little further forward to either side of the unpaved road. The surrounding countryside seems undeveloped.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m388
title: Times Bicycle Club (Los Angeles Times?) on Western Avenue looking north from Pico Boulevard, September 4, 1895

description: Photograph of the Times Bicycle Club (Los Angeles Times?) on Western Avenue looking north from Pico Boulevard, September 4, 1895. A group of twelve men and women walk or ride their bicycles along the unpaved road at center, while several others ride in the distance. The surrounding area is what appears to be undeveloped land, although several houses can be seen on the horizon at the foot of a line of mountains. One print is hand-dated "Sept. 4 1900".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m10753
title: A procession in Fiesta Park on Grand Avenue between Pico Boulevard and 12th Street, Los Angeles, May 1901

description: Photograph of a procession in Fiesta Park on Grand Avenue between Pico Boulevard and Twelfth Street, Los Angeles, May 1901. An enormous carriage, lavishly decorated with ribbons and flowers is stopped at the center of the frame, attended to either side by people in ceremonial dress, some hefting huge trays of flower petals. Several ranks of soldiers stand to the left of the carriage, further in the foreground. A mounted solider waits behind them, in front of which, in the extreme foreground, the heads and shoulders of spectators can be seen. A similar crowd of spectators is pictured in the background, behind which the buildings of a town can be seen. Picture file card reads "Miss Modina Wood--the Queen".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3368
title: Three cyclists on the Cahuenga Pass, Los Angeles, ca.1897

description: Photograph of three cyclists on the Cahuenga Pass, Los Angeles, ca.1897. The man to the right walks his bicycle on the unpaved road, looking at his companions riding a tandem bicycle to the left. One of the tandem cyclists has a briefcase of some kind strapped on his back. The terrain surrounding them is comprised entirely of grassy hills. Caption on photoprint reads: "Cahuenga Pass -- connecting Hollywood and San Fernando Valley -- as it was in 1897".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12602
title: Street car from the Steam Motorcar Line on Santa Fe Avenue and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1897

description: Photograph of a street car from the Steam Motorcar Line on Santa Fe Avenue and Ninth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1897. A group of boys stand in front of and fill most of the back of the car, while several adults sit or stand to the side. The road is unpaved and telephone poles are evident in front of the several one-story buildings that line it.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14541
title: Choir (loft) of Church of Santa Rosa, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of the choir (loft) of Church of Santa Rosa, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. The decorations in the church include images of the saints(?) and much frilly grillwork. Several of the chandeliers are covered with cloth bags. Also visible is a confessional at left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6695
title: Pioneer's reception at the Hotel Raymond in South Pasadena, Los Angeles, ca.1890

description: Photograph of a Pioneer's reception at the Hotel Raymond in South Pasadena, Los Angeles, ca.1890. The three-story hotel sports a balcony, picture windows and clapboard veneer. In front, a group of nearly 100 people pose in formal dress. A band is pictured as part of the crowd to the left, the bass drum of which reads "Pasadena Band".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13183
title: A group of unidentified grammar school children and teachers in South Pasadena, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a group of unidentified grammar school children and teachers in South Pasadena, ca.1900. The group poses for the photo under the eaves of a building with a clapboard veneer. Many of the children look away from the camera, down at their feet or towards something out of frame to the left or right.  To the left, in the first row of children, a boy holding a snare drum gazes off out of the frame while the other boys around him try to affect sophisticated poses.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6680
title: Exterior view of the first school and church in South Pasadena, ca.1890

description: Photograph of the first school and church in South Pasadena, ca.1890. A man with a cane stands between two trees, tucks his arm behind his back, and looks toward the two buildings: the three-story school on the left, and the one-story church on the right. The surrounding terrain appears to be undeveloped, although other houses and a few telephone poles can be seen in the extreme distance. An unpaved road runs along the forground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6687
title: South Pasadena looking south from Columbia Hill towards the mountains, ca.1884

description: Photograph of South Pasadena looking south from Columbia Hill towards the mountains, ca.1884. What appear to be rows of shrubs and trees fill much of the foreground, the residences and other buildings starting only midway up the panorama. An extremely large fort-style building is visible in the distance at right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6009
title: Pasadena in panorama looking northeast from Raymond Hill, ca.1883

description: Photograph of Pasadena in panorama looking northeast from Raymond Hill, ca.1883. Mountains serves as a backdrop for the city, comprised of small, one-story homes separated by large tracts of farming land. Colorado and the school at Fair Oaks Boulevard can be seen in the left edge of the view.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6686
title: South Pasadena looking west on Columbia Street from Raymond Hill, ca.1883

description: Photograph of South Pasadena looking west on Columbia Street from Raymond Hill,  ca.1883. The frame looks out on tracts of farmland with mountains in the distance. On the tract closest to the camera in the foreground, several carts and wagons, an ox, and a man tending a horse hitched to a plow can be seen.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6685
title: South Pasadena in panorama looking northwest from Columbia Hill, ca.1880

description: Photograph of South Pasadena in panorama looking northwest from Columbia Hill, ca.1880. Most fronted in the photograph, a long stretch of road runs by the open clearing in front of a two-story house, backed by heavy tree growth. Telephone poles line the road.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6691
title: Raymond Street Station along the Santa Fe Railroad, Los Angeles, ca.1886

description: Photograph of the Raymond Street Station along the Santa Fe Railroad, Los Angeles, ca.1886. A small locomotive engine is pulling out of the station towards the camera, trailing several cars. Beside it, a stagecoach sits hitched to a horse while a man walks away from it towards a railcar. Two more people stand with their backs to the camera at right, watching him. A light-colored, two-story building other than the station can be seen in the background at left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6710
title: Columbia Avenue with the Raymond Hotel in the distance, ca.1887

description: Photograph of Columbia Avenue with the Raymond Hotel in the distance, ca.1887. A railcar sits at the center of the unpaved street, hitched to a horse whose reigns a man in the railcar attends with one arm cocked to the side, posing. Behind him the lavish Victorian architecture of the Raymond Hotel can be seen. A three-story brick building stands to the right. The street is lined by a post-and-rail fence.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5312
title: Roy Knabenshue's blimp dirigible on the grounds of the Hotel Raymond in Pasadena, ca.1903(?)

description: Photograph of Roy Knabenshue's blimp dirigible on the grounds of the Hotel Raymond in Pasadena, ca.1903(?). A large crowd of men and women gather on the knoll around the large net-wrapped balloon. The building of the Hotel Raymond can be seen in the left distance. Knabenshue, a former resident of South Pasadena, is considered to be California's first intrepid dirigible navigator. He flew his airship from1902 until 1910. In order to ascend, Knabenshue would walk to the back of the wooden frame track. In order to descent it was necessary to run to the front. The balloon was steered by hand with a large white fin on the aircraft's rear, and propelled by a small gas engine mounted on the frame.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14542
title: Sacristy with arched master painting in the Church of Santa Rosa, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of the sacristy with arched master painting in the Church of Santa Rosa, Queretaro, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. Carvings of about twelve figures sitting are directly below the painting. A lamp with a cross on top is in the foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12427
title: The first electric streetcar between Los Angeles and Pasadena, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the first electric streetcar between Los Angeles and Pasadena, ca.1900. The streetcar tilts to the left as it rounds a turn, loaded with passengers. Surrounding it are the poles that create the latticework for the streetcar's cable support, behind which is a line of trees. What appears to be the spire of a church is visible in the right background. The car service itself began on May 30th, 1894. Photoprint reads: "Note that this may also be first car into Alhambra in 1901".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m6675
title: Exterior view of the first house in South Pasadena, Los Angeles, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the first house in South Pasadena, Los Angeles, ca.1900. An elderly woman and gentleman stand with the attention of a younger couple, the man of which is holding a bicycle upright by its handlebars. A huge wash of roses blooms over their heads, clinging to the house, which is just barely visible behind it. Picture file card reads "O.R. Doughtery who ran a shoe store in Pasadena, owned 10 acres in South Pasadena and was one of the first inhabitants of this rancho."
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13677
title: Portrait of a group of old settlers at the residence of Margaret Graham (Collier?), [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of a group of old settlers at the residence of Margaret Graham (Collier?), [s.d.]. A group of more than a dozen men and women in formal dress sit and stand in front of the porch and ivy-covered walls of the Graham/Collier residence. The third, fourth and fifth rows in from the front are seated.