cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17885
title: Portrait of Carman (Carmen?) Abbott dressed as a Spanish dancer, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Carman (Carmen?) Abbott dressed as a Spanish dancer, [s.d.]. Miss Abbot is pictured in a calico dress that features short sleeves and a tight bodice. She wears a wide-brimmed hat tipped back on her head that shrouds her face in shadow. Her right hand is on her hip, while her left hand theatrically holds a cigarette next to her lips. She is pictured from the knees up. Photoprint reads: "Daughter of the builder of the Mercea Theater in Abbott Blvd. nxt door south of Pico House".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14585
title: Chapel of El Cerrito at Guadalupe, Mexico, ca.1900

description: Photograph (stereograph) of the Chapel of El Cerrito (Church of the Hill) at Guadalupe, Mexico, ca.1900. Reputed as a place of healing. Overlooking the roofs in the foreground, the steep path ascending the hill to the church is visible.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13404
title: An artist's portrait of Doña Encarnación, California, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of an artist's portrait of Doña Encarnación, California, [s.d.]. Doña Abila is drawn here in bust with what looks to be pencil or charcoal and perhaps ink. She looks directly at the camera with her flat, broad nose and smooth, middle-age features. Her eyebrows are somewhat thick, and she wears a white lace "veil" over the top of her dark, pulled-back hair. The remainders of the lace drape down to either side of her neck. She wears button earrings and a matching brooch. The signature at the bottom of the portrait reads "W.S. Sutton S2". Photoprint reads: "where home was used by Commandore Stockton when the Americans occupied Los Angeles".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13258
title: Map of the ranch where the Treaty of Capitulation of California to the United States of America was signed, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a map of the ranch where the Treaty of Capitulation of California to the United States of America was signed, [s.d.]. The map is hand-drawn and describes an irregular trapezoid of space, its directional arrow drawn like a real arrow at the center of the map. The main title reads "Chamisal". Other legible words include: "Lindero", "Llamo", "Siena", "Porteguelo de Cahuenga", "Lindero Lorena", "Lindero de San[...] Verdgugo", "Casa de pared" and "Escalade [...] legua".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17887
title: Ruins of Fort Tejon, showing a horse-drawn wagon, Los Angeles, ca.1895

description: Photograph of the ruins of Fort Tejon, showing a horse-drawn wagon, Los Angeles, ca.1895. A four-wheeled open-air wagon is parked at center, hitched to two horses. A man stands on the ground beside it looking off towards the right while the silhouettes of two other passengers are visible inside. A post-and-rail fence stretches from the left to the right side of the image, showing a small, lone-standing brick wall behind it to the left. A tree is visible in the background to the right, along with a large hill.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8310
title: Drawing of the July 11, 1846 flag raising over Fort Sutter by Capt. John A. Sutter, Sacremento, California, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a drawing of the July 11, 1846 flag raising over Fort Sutter by Capt. John A. Sutter, Sacremento, California, [s.d.]. The fort stands at the center of the image, a collection of two small military buildings surrounded by a square wall. An American flag flies from a pole on the central building. A third building stands outside the fort in the right foreground, with horses in front of it to its left. People stand outside the wall of the fort. In the foreground a tree can be seen to the left, with people on horses and in both western and Native American dress situated across the visible hills. The flag was sent by Lieutenant Joseph Warren Revere, U.S. Navy officer from Sonoma. William Scott was the courier.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14586
title: The Indian's tilma which hangs over the altar at the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the Indian's tilma which hangs over the altar at the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico, ca.1900. It is a painting of the full figure of the standing Virgin Mary with her hands templed in prayer and her head bowed. She is surrounded by rays of light. It has been worshipped since the 16th century. This image is from photograph of an original negative made from the true picture by Dr. G. d'Arcais, an Italian nobleman, who secured permission from the Bishop after much official intercession.; "Mexican pilgrims visit shrine -- Homage to Patron Saint paid by 100,000 in Annual Excursion. Mexico City, Dec. 12 (UP) -- One hundred thousand pilgrims representing the highest strata of Mexican life as well as the humblest peons and Indians, paid homage today at the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico's patron on the occasion of the annual pilgrimage to the shrine. Special excursions arrived hourly from all sections, unloading throngs of pilgrims who crawl on the hands and knees over the last 100 yards to the 340-year old shrine. Catholic churches in the city conducted hourly masses, the government refraining from enforcing the limit on the number of open churches under the religious laws. Business houses, banks and offices were closed." -- Newspaper clipping [s.a.].
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1252
title: Exterior view of the Bellevue Terrace Hotel, ca.1890-1895

description: Photograph of the exterior of the victorian Bellevue Terrace Hotel, a grand hotel on Figueroa Street (formerly Pearl Street) and 6th Street (later site of the Jonathan Club), Los Angeles, ca.1890-1895. At the curb are two horse and carriages. Wide cement stairs lead up from the sidewalk to the entrance. A cement retaining wall edges the well groomed lawn which surrounds the large building. Four large palms flank this side of the hotel.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17758
title: Paiute papoose with baby in the Yosemite Valley, ca.1905

description: Photograph of a Paiute papoose with baby in the Yosemite Valley, ca.1905. A chubby, brown-faced baby is wrapped in a papoose, a knit bonnet tied over their head. The papoose lays on a bed of what appears to be straw.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7010
title: Rae Peak and Rae Lake in the high Sierra Nevada mountains, Fresno, California, ca.1910

description: Photograph of Rae Peak and Rae Lake in the high Sierra Nevada mountains, Fresno, California, ca.1910. A slope of rock and rubble obscures part of the lake in the foreground, which is visible behind it. Further back, a large, sharp, snow-dappled peak dominates the rest of the frame. Compares to CHS-6826.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13871
title: View of Pali from Coral Gardens in Coconut Island in Hawaii, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a view of Pali from Coral Gardens in Coconut Island in Hawaii, [s.d.]. A mountain is visible in the distance as wind blows the tall coconut palms to the right towards the curving inlet of water. A large palm is visible in the left foreground, one of many.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17888
title: Portrait of James Marshall, California, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of James Marshall, California, [s.d.]. Mr. Marshall is pictured here in bust in three-quarters profile facing right. He has long, straight, salt-and-pepper hair and a matching beard. His face shows a few prominent wrinkles and weathering, and he has a prominent lower lip. He wears a dark jacket, light shirt and a dark, ribbon bowtie. He discovered gold at Coloma in 1848.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13803
title: Portrait of "Death Valley Scotty", California, ca.1926

description: Photographic portrait of "Death Valley Scotty", California, ca.1926. "Scotty" stands pictured from the waist up in pinstripe slacks and a long-sleeved, light-colored button-down shirt with his hands folded behind his back. He wears what appears to be a park ranger's hat, and his shoulders are slightly turned to the right. His face is round and sags slightly. His eyes are squinted. A rancher-style house is visible in the right background along with trees and a utility pole.; "Walter Scott, AKA Death Valley Scotty, was born in 1872. As a young boy he ran away from his Kentucky home to join his brother on a ranch in Nevada. After working numerous jobs in the area, he traveled the world for 12 years with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. Scotty convinced several wealthy businessmen to invest in his Death Valley gold mine, which he assured them, was worth millions. Albert Johnson, a Chicago insurance magnate, was one of the investors and thus began a lifelong friendship and partnership. It was definitely a case of opposites attracting. Johnson was a well respected, religious man whereas Scotty was a rowdy, shady character. After investing thousands of dollars and receiving no return, Johnson decided to personally check out the mine, despite the fact that his health was not good. Because the dry, sunny climate improved his health dramatically, Johnson and his wife made frequent visits to the Valley which, in turn, led to the building the Death Valley ranch. The 3,000-foot elevation and reliable year-round water supply made the site ideal. Johnson supplied more than $2 million needed to finance the project, but Scotty supplied the mystery, curiosity and entertainment. Over the years, many came to visit including Betty Grable, Will Rogers and Norman Rockwell." -- Sandra Scott.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17889
title: Painting entitled "Sunday Morning in the Mines", California, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a painting entitled "Sunday Morning in the Mines", California, ca.1900. A man on a horse races by with a tree branch in his hand in the left foreground, three other horsemen in his stead. To their right, two miners try to restrain a third who is in his pajamas and appears to be drunk. Two men doze, leaning on the outside wall of a shack, while a third sits and looks at them. Further right, two men are in the process of rag-bathing parts of their body. Equipment is scattered across the bottom of the frame. To the left, more festivities can be seen under a canopy.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8853
title: Portrait of Tom Hockett, California, ca.1900

description: Photographic portrait of Tom Hockett, California, ca.1900. Hockett, the Native American who guided the first white men into Inyo County, is shown here in a sweater, torn pants and a hat, and can be seen leaning on an axe-handle. He stands in the forest with fallen branches and dead leaves at his feet. When his tribe learned that he had guided the white men, they broke his hands. He wears a tortured expression on his elderly, weathered face.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17890
title: City water reservoir in Plaza, Los Angeles, befrore 1871

description: Photograph of the city water reservoir in Plaza, Los Angeles, before 1871. The reservoir building stands at center, featuring arched window filled-in with brick. A wooden frame  has been built on top of the building's brick, through which a pole standing at the center and what appear to be wires can be seen attached to the left and right sides of the frame's inside walls. A post-and-rail fence can be seen behind this, beyond which a second, long utility house stands. What appear to be sheds and a factory building of approximately four stories are visible furthest back. Mountains can be seen in the distance.; "Father Adam says, 'Where Buena Vista Street is now open, north on the hill, stood a chapel from 1784 to 1812; where a Franciscan friar from San Gabriel said Mass every Sunday and holidays.' The fence about the Plaza was built by the owners of the reservoir at extreme right of the picture. Later they planted the trees and otherwise improved it." -- unknown author. The reservoir was demolished in 1871.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17891
title: View of Los Angeles, showing the Sisters School on Macy Street, ca.1876

description: Photograph of a view of Los Angeles, showing the Sisters School on Macy Street, ca.1876. Flat-roofed, one-story facility buildings form and angular crescent around a courtyard of trees in the front center right, surrounded by a picket fence. The roof of a slightly bigger facility building is visible with its three chimneys behind and to the left. The tops of more buildings, these with slanted roofs, are situated in the background in no apparent order. Furthest back in the city, a flat-faced, four-story building stands to the left, taller than the rest of the buildings in the image. A plain peppered with shrubs is visible in the distance, along with mountains. The tops of both a tree and a house are visible in the extreme foreground across the street from the courtyard.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14587
title: Native wood carving of Virgin Mary, Encarnacion, Mexico, ca.1900

description: Photograph of native wood carving of Virgin Mary, Encarnacion, Mexico, ca.1900. She stands with her hands templed in prayer, her head surrounded by halo rays of light. A decorative crown adorns her head, and several rings can be seen on her fingers. A robe with a floral pattern is draped around her body. At her feet, clouds and the faces of three cherubs can be seen.; "This statue is in a niche above one of the side altars in the parochial church at Encarnacion. This Madonna claims much respect and devotion being lowered once a year from its niche and carried at the head of a procession in the yard around the church. Sometimes the priests get upon their knees and move forward in this humble and penitent way. The people all follow and the procession moves along over the cobblestone pavement regardless of the comfort of knees or the welfare of clothes." -- Professor G. de Arcais.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1861
title: View of Spring Street and Main Street from a nearby hill, showing the Old Court House, Los Angeles, ca.1872

description: Photograph of a view of Spring Street and Main Street from a nearby hill, showing the Old Court House, Los Angeles, ca.1872. A two-story Romanesque building stands across the street at center, its clock tower rising from the center of its flat roof, reading roughly five minutes after four o'clock. In the foreground, the backs of non-residential buildings can be seen, a roofless brick wall with windows standing at center either undergoing construction or demolition. Debris, including a window frame, surround it. Small utility shacks stand behind. Towards the top of the image manufacturing buildings are situated across the street with trees and a few residential-style houses visible in the background. Legible signs include: "Boots and Shoes" and "Furniture and Bedding Manufactory". The Old Court House was known as the Temple Building, the first county court house in Los Angeles, built in 1859 by John Temple and rented to the County and to vendors who leased store space.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m646
title: View of Main Street and Twelfth Street, showing the area Childs Place, Los Angeles, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a view of Main Street and Twelfth Street, showing the area Childs Place, Los Angeles, ca.1900. A vendor tends his cart to the left side of the sidewalk's corner, in front of a parked automobile. To the right, two small groups of men and women navigate the sidewalk and street, holding bags and packages. A lamp post stands at the corner of the sidewalk, lined to either side by utility poles. Trees obscure the Childs Place home in the background. A poster on the surrounding picket fence reads "Times".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3398
title: View of Los Angeles and Hollywood Boulevard from the top of the Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, ca. November 1927

description: Photograph of a view of Los Angeles and Hollywood Boulevard from the top of the Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, ca. November 1927. The flat roofs of tenement and office buildings are visible, as well as the more lavish architecture of the hotels to the left. To the right, the Hotel Christie, Barker Brothers building and Robertson Company building are visible. Automobiles are visible driving the boulevard a little left of center at the bottom of the frame. Residential areas can be seen on the hills in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17892
title: View of Hollywood looking northwest from the Athletic Club, Los Angeles, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a view of Hollywood looking northwest from the Athletic Club, Los Angeles, [s.d.]. Automobiles park along and navigate the street below, past the rooftops visible in the extreme foreground, while the flat-topped cubes of business and tenement buildings fill the rest of the image on the other side of the street, with two highrise buildings standing to the left and right just before the mountains in the background. Legible signs include: "Hotel Gilbert", "[...] Gilbert Café [...]", "Garage", "Hollywood Auto Transfer & Storage Co. / Moving Storage Packing Shipping", "Hardware Linoleum",  and "Guaranty Rate 6% / We Pay 6% / Safe Deposit Vaults".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3160
title: View of Hollywood looking north from the Athletic Club, showing the Hotel Wilcox, Los Angeles, ca.1927

description: Photograph of a view of Hollywood looking north from the Athletic Club, showing the Hotel Wilcox, Los Angeles, ca.1927. The five-story Hotel Wilcox stands at the center of the frame, ten windows across, advertising "Fireproof" under its sign while small residential buildings surround it in the foreground. Automobiles navigate the road to the bottom left into an area filled with more tall, boxy business buildings. A second residential area is visible in the distant hills, where the "Hollywoodland" sign is visible. What appears to be a weather ballon is suspended in the sky to the extreme right. Legible signs include: "Hotel Mark Twain", "[...] Transfer & Storage Co.", and "Warne[...]".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13207
title: Portrait of children from the "Pass School" in Hollywood, Los Angeles, ca.1892-1893

description: Photographic portrait of children from the "Pass School" in Hollywood, Los Angeles, ca.1892-1893. Nine boys and five girls stand on the steps of the first school on Sunset Boulevard with their school mistress, who stands to the right in the back row dressed in a dark blouse. The boy standing center in the front row wears an ill-fitting pinstripe suit, while three other boys to the left of him wear dress shirts and kerchiefs. A boy behind him holds his had to his chest while the boy next to him smiles widely. The girls are situated in the rows mainly to the right, the girl in the first row wearing a dark, floral-patterned dress, the girl behind her wearing an overall-type dress with a blouse underneath, next to which a third girl sports a lace collar. Two more girls stand at center in the top row with the remaining boys.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m10749
title: La Fiesta Parade between Broadway and Sixth Street showing President McKinley, Los Angeles, ca.1901

description: Photograph of the La Fiesta Parade between Broadway and Sixth Street showing President McKinley, Los Angeles, ca.1901. McKinley turns the corner of the two streets in a horse-drawn carriage that has been decorated with a layer of roses while a cavalcade of police officers follow him to his side both on foot and on horseback, as well as behind him in rank. Spectators sit and stand in the bleachers in the left background. To the right, a brick business building advertises yeast for the Golden Gate Compressed Wheat Company. Other legible signs include: "Thomas Day & Co. Gas Fixtures / Electric Fixtures", and "For Broadway Property Consult R.A. Rowan / 419 Douglas Building".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1851
title: Aerial view of Los Angeles, showing the then new City Hall and the city gasworks, ca. March 1928

description: Photograph of an aerial view of Los Angeles, showing the then new City Hall and the city gasworks, ca. March 1928.  Towards the top of the photo, wide, cylindrical wire-frame towers bear the title "L.A. Gas". The Los Angeles City Hall building stands at the center of the image, a tower flanked to either side by small highrise structures extending from a flat, wide one-story base level. What appears to be a gothic church can be seen just in front of it and to the left, its bell tower extending above the buildings around it. A second building also in front, but to the right, features a smaller clock tower. The surrounding area is a grid work of city streets packed to either side by tenement, business and commercial buildings.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1849
title: View of Los Angeles from Fifth Street and Hill Street, showing City Hall and the city gasworks, 1928

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of Los Angeles from Fifth Street and Hill Street, showing City Hall and the city gasworks, 1928. The intersection of two major roads is visible to the upper right. The Los Angeles City Hall building stands at the center of the image, a tower flanked to either side by small highrise structures extending from a flat, wide one-story base level. What appears to be a gothic church can be seen just in front of it and to the left, its bell tower extending above the buildings around it. A second building also in front, but to the right, features a smaller clock tower. The surrounding area is a grid work of city streets packed to either side by tenement, business and commercial buildings. Towards the top of the photo towards the right, wide, cylindrical wire-frame towers bear the title "L.A. Gas".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14588
title: Mexican caballero on horseback, ca.1905

description: Photograph of a Mexican caballero on horseback, ca.1905. He wears a fancy short jacket, matching pants, and a sombrero of two colors. A dog is standing beside the horse. They are next to a wall standing on a cobbled surface.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14025
title: Head of a rattlesnake with its jaws extended, ca.1920

description: Photograph of the head of a rattlesnake with its jaws extended, ca.1920. The rattlesnake's head is shown in profile, facing the left with its jaws open and its fangs and forked tongue displayed. It has been cropped just below the head, where a neutral background begins, encircling the neck and filling the rest of the frame.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1525
title: Exterior view of the Southern Pacific Arcade Depot, Los Angeles, ca.1900

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Southern Pacific Arcade Depot, Los Angeles, ca.1900. The Depot's central building stands at the right with a peaked roof and three floors, striped cloth canopies extended over the windows. In front, a rider waits in a horse-drawn carriage near a fenced-off palm tree. Two men wait to either side of the Depot's entrance. To the right, a second carriage stands parked in front of the long, squat annexes connected to the Depot. They terminate in a two-floored section with two chimneys extending from its own peaked roof. A final man stands to the extreme right corner of the image.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13995
title: Southern Pacific train nearing a mining tunnel, California, ca.1870

description: Photograph of a Southern Pacific train nearing a mining tunnel, California, ca.1870. Two men pose on the back of the engineer's cabin of a locomotive engine while a third leans out from the side window. They trail a coal car behind them whose side reads "Southern Pacific R.R.". Behind them, a rock face slopes down from the right, a tunnel cut out with a wood frame at its center, for which the train is headed. A tree is visible on top of the rock face. Wood beams line the side of the rail road tracks.; Picture file card reads: "According to Bob Wolfenstein, this picture was taken in the 1870's as engines and men's dress are typical of that period. Tunnel is definitely not the San Fernando Tunnel--probably the Newhall Tunnel. 3-7-74.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m10524
title: First dedicated fruit train leaving Los Angeles for the East with workers posed on top, Los Angeles, ca.1888

description: Photograph of the first dedicated fruit train leaving Los Angeles for the East with workers posed on top, Los Angeles, ca.1888. A crowd of workers stands on top of and around a locomotive fruit train, whose freight cars read "California Fast Freight Line" as well as "[...] Pacific Freight Car" where the first word has been edited out by scratching. Some workers on the coal car wave American flags while still more hang out the side window of the engineer's cabin. The caption below the image reads "Fruits for Eastern Tables--About 1888".