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DOI: 10.25549/chs-m10748
title: Los Angeles' La Fiesta on Broadway Street, with former U.S. President McKinley on a platform in front of City Hall, 1901

description: Photograph of Los Angeles' La Fiesta on Broadway Street, with former U.S. President McKinley on a platform in front of City Hall, 1901. Crowds of people are situated in the stands behind McKinley's podium as men on the street dressed as boleros and in military uniforms prepare horses and floats for the parade. A canopy in American Flag motif is spread over the former President's platform, while other American flag draperies are hung elsewhere. Many men in the stands are tipping their hats.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17819
title: Los Angeles' La Fiesta on Broadway Street, with former U.S. President McKinley leaving in a carriage in front of City Hall, 1901

description: Photograph of Los Angeles' La Fiesta on Broadway Street, with former U.S. President McKinley leaving in a carriage in front of City Hall, 1901. Soldiers in decorative dress have mounted their horses, preparing to escort President McKinley's flower-covered carriage down the street. Two men at the side of the carriage in the foreground doff their hats. In the background, crowds of people fill stands decorated with American-flag-inspired draperies.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17820
title: Portrait of Don Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of Don Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, [s.d.]. The governor, a pudgy, broad man, sits in a chair resting his top hat next to him on the end-table at right. The chair is turned slightly to the right. He wears a longcoat over his vest, both of which are darkly colored and appear to be made out of wool. His furry beard is white and grisly and connects with the muttonchops on either side of his face. His hair, although receding, remains thick. Thick wrinkles form around his eyes as he blinks.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14566
title: Cathedral of Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of the Cathedral of Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. Dual towers gird the main entrance to the church. The actual base is blocked by large trees. A station and five streetcars are in the foreground. There are also many people and several horse-drawn carriages present.; "Mexico City is the largest and finest city in Spanish America. Being laid out with perfect regularity, its 600 streets and lanes running at right angles north and south and east and west. The broad, well paved and well lighted streets terminate everywhere with a background of rugged sierras or snow-capped peaks, which seem quite near, but in reality are 30 or 40 miles distant. The main thoroughfares converge on the central Plaza de Armas (Plaza Mayor or Main Square). Here are grouped the public buildings and, towering above all, the Cathedral, the largest and most sumptuous edifice in America. This Church was founded in 1573 and finished in 1657, at a cost of about $2,000,000 for the walls alone." (ca.1905)
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13508
title: Eulogio F. de Celis, owner of the San Fernando Valley in the early fifties, San Fernando Valley, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of Eulogio F. de Celis, owner of the San Fernando Valley in the early fifties, San Fernando Valley, [s.d.]. Mr. de Celis is pictured here in bust, with his overcoat buttoned nearly up to his collar, around which a bowtie is fastened. He sports both a long moustache and a long, soulpatch beard. His hair is full and wavy, springing out on either side by his ears. His face is smooth and shows little sign of aging, making him look no more than thirty-five years old. Photoprint reads: "His father taught the S.F. Mission lands after secularization, left for Spain and his son (here) took charge".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m5757
title: Thousands of eggs lined-up under heat lamps in a San Fernando Valley hatchery, ca.1950

description: Photograph of thousands of eggs lined-up under heat lamps in a San Fernando Valley hatchery, ca.1950. What appear to be chicken eggs are arranged in corrugated bins on long rows of countertops to which wood boards have been affixed. In the corner in the righthand foreground, some documents, along with what appears to be egg-testing equipement, have been laid out.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4308
title: Birdseye view of the San Fernando Valley looking north, Los Angeles, 1909

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of the San Fernando Valley looking north, Los Angeles, 1909. The town pours out from the foot of the hill which can be seen in the foreground. The houses seem relatively far-spaced from one another, although the town also seems separated by a number of manmade tree lines. A wide road runs through the center of the town, extending toward the mountains, which can be seen in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2410
title: Griffith Park Adobe known as the Antonio Feliz house, Los Angeles, ca.1910

description: Photograph of the Griffith Park Adobe known as the Antonio Feliz house, Los Angeles, ca.1910. The house, built in 1851 by Jose Pacoin, is losing much of its spackled exterior, thus showing the brick foundation underheath. It is apparently windowless, and all of its doors facing the dirt road it stands beside, are open. A second tier to the adobe stands to the right, the incline of its roof perpendicular to the main building's roof. Trees stand both to the left and to the right, leafless.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12619
title: Parked streetcars at the Pacific Electric Hill Street Station, 1925

description: Photograph of parked streetcars at the Pacific Electric Hill Street Station, 1925. Street cars stand lined-up side to side and end to end in the foreground, obscured to the left and the right by some minor tree brush. A tall palm stands in the background near a telephone pole, in front of a skyline of highrise buildings. Legible signs include "Auto Park" and "Hotel Trenton". What appears to be a water tower stands in the left background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2158
title: Calle de Los Negros in Chinatown, Los Angeles, ca.1900-1930

description: Photograph of Calle de Los Negros (Negro Alley, colloquially referred to as "Nigger Alley" at the time) in Chinatown, Los Angeles, ca.1900-1930. A YMCA can be seen along the shopfront lining the right side of the street, above which the Upper Room Mission is situated. Telephone poles line the sidewalk, extending to the distance in the left of the photo, where an automobile is parked by several pedestrians. A white man in a hat and suit stands in the foreground at right, his hands on his hips.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m496
title: Hill Street entrance to the Second Street tunnel under construction, Los Angeles, ca.1920

description: Photograph of the Hill Street entrance to the Second Street tunnel under construction, Los Angeles, ca.1920. A ditch filled with lumber stands in the foreground, quickly meeting an archway under which an automobile can be seen parked. A small workman's shack has been erected to the left, and scaffolding lines the street on the bridge above and the road leading up to it on the left side. Two men in suits stands amidst the building materials at the right side of the ditch. Highrise buildings and an inclined street can be seen in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17822
title: The Bullock's Building under construction on Broadway and Seventh Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905

description: Photograph of the Bullock's Building under construction on Broadway and 7th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905. The building, completed and occupied by March 1st of 1907, is shown here, still mostly scaffolding and framework. The arm of a crane can be seen behind the building, helping to erect the structure. Several pedestrians walk along the street in front. In the background, a finished building sporting the signs "Wall Paper, Fabrics & Art Decorations" and "California Furniture Co." can be seen. A cart is visible in the corner in front of the building at right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m536
title: Normal Hill with cars parked alongside it, Los Angeles, 1900

description: Photograph of Normal Hill with cars parked alongside it, Los Angeles, 1900. A man stands leaning on his back heel, gazing at the curved arch of the hill which would first become the site for the Normal State School, and then the location of the Los Angeles Public Library. Two lines of cars are parked next to the hill, near which a path runs from the lot along the perpendicular side. A tree is visible at the top of the hill along with other, low-growing vegetation.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14567
title: Entrance to Paseo, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of the entrance to Paseo, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. In the foreground, a large statue of King Clarles IV of Spain (aka "El Cabalito") dominates the intersection of Paseo de la Reforma and Paseo de Bucareli. The statue was erected in 1852. It is surrounded by a tall iron spike fence in a square planted with small trees and punctuated on each corner with streetlights. Paseo de la Reforma proceeds far into the distance and is flanked with wide sidewalks and tall trees. In the background, the Christopher Columbus monument can be seen with the Cuauhtemoc
Monument behind it. In the extreme background, the Chapultepec Castle can be barely seen. A few pedestrians are visible. There are also several horse-drawn carriages in the street. Two tall pole-construction towers are visible, one at left and one at right. Additional information: "The two poles are bronze monuments commonly known as "Indios Verdes". They represent two Mexica Huey Tlatoani (from Nahuatl/Aztec language: Hueyi = high and Tlatoani = ruler, gobernor); to the right, Izcoatl (obsidian snake) and to the left, Ahuizotl (otter). Performed by the sculptor Alejandro Casarín to represent México in Paris at the Exposition Universelle, on 1889. Located for the first time, where they are seen in the picture, in 1890. They have been relocated several times" -- Dr. Jesús Roberto Duarte, 2016-01-28.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m279
title: Hill Street looking north from Third Street, Los Angeles, ca.1908

description: Photograph of Hill Street looking north from Third Street, Los Angeles, ca.1908. Buildings line the sidewalks at either side of the unpaved street, in the center of which streetcar rails are embedded. At left, a man walks with his hands in his pockets and his back to the camera next to one- and two-story shopfronts. To the right, highrise buildings dominate the skyline. A legible sign reads, "Mines & Farish / Real Estate, Loans, Insurance [...]".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2413
title: A little brick house in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, ca.1910

description: Photograph of a little brick house in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, ca.1910. The house is situated on a scraggly lot filled with weeds in front of an oak tree. The modest, one-story home appears to have no windows. It is abandoned and crumbling, the bricks under the roof at the right having been torn away.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12397
title: First Street Entrance to the Pacific Electric Subway Tunnel under construction between First Street and Glendale Boulevard, ca.1926

description: Photograph of the First Street Entrance to the Pacific Electric Subway Tunnel under construction between First Street and Glendale Boulevard, ca.1926. Smoke billows out of the smokestack of a back hoe as it moves soil in a depression dug out of the ground pictured at center. A man stands next to an early pickup truck situated beside it while a second pickup is just visible in the right foreground. Spectators watch the construction from the road above and to the left. A hill is visible in the background on which an automobile can be seen driving, and houses are situated.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3355
title: Melrose Avenue looking west from Western Avenue, Los Angeles, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of Melrose Avenue looking west from Western Avenue, Los Angeles, [s.d.]. Eucalyptus trees line the sidewalk to either side of the paved street, creating a canopy of foliage behind which a house is just barely visible on the left side. An automobile can be seen at the end of the street in the far distance, coming toward the camera.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m23
title: An old Catholic cemetery on North Broadway and Buena Vista Street, Los Angeles, ca.1920

description: Photograph of an old Catholic cemetery on North Broadway and Buena Vista Street, Los Angeles, ca.1920. The grass has grown tall and thick from neglect and only the tombs and taller headstones of the graveyard can be seen. At center, a tall headstone is surrounded by a wrought-iron fence while still taller headstones in the shapes of both obelisks and crosses are visible in the background. The small, concrete fence that appears to mark the boundary of the cemetery is visible in the foreground in disrepair. Trees are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m22
title: Workman Monument in the Old Catholic Cemetery of the Pueblo Los Angeles on North Broadway, ca.1925

description: Photograph of the Workman Monument in the Old Catholic Cemetery of the Pueblo Los Angeles on North Broadway, ca.1925. The obelisk of the monument stands at the center of an enclosed grave plot surrounded by chickenwire and wrought-iron and secured by a wooden gate. A second headstone stands next to the monument, at right while what appears to be a hole is visible outside the grave plot, also to the right. A second, separate monument is visible in the background behind tree foliage, along with a post-and-wire fence.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1779
title: Antonio Lugo adobe on San Pedro Street south of Second Street, Los Angeles, 1900-1902

description: Photograph of the Antonio Lugo adobe on San Pedro Street south of Second Street, Los Angeles, 1900-1902. The yard of the longhouse is overgrown, obscuring the lower half of the house, which is, itself, in disrepair; cracks are forming on the outside walls and shingles are coming loose from the roof. The window to the right of the doors appears to be broken in the lower pane. In the background to the left, a spoked wagon-wheel is visible.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4859
title: An adobe on Wordsworth Street near Jefferson Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905

description: Photograph of an adobe on Wordsworth Street near Jefferson Street, Los Angeles, ca.1905. The adobe longhouse is in obvious disrepair with shingles falling form the roof and clapboard missing from the exterior walls. A ladder is leaning up against the narrow wall next to an opening on the second floor, possibly the attic. Crates and debris are visible in the overgrown lawn to the right in front of the peeling walls behind the porch. Trees are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m40
title: Broadway Christian Church near Temple Street, Los Angeles, ca.1925

description: Photograph of the Broadway Christian Church near Temple Street, Los Angeles, ca.1925. The three-story church seems to be in a style of architecture between arabesque and Victorian; it sports a minaret on top of its bell tower, and a balcony on its third floor. Brick steps lead up to the double doors at its entrance, and filigree ironwork bar its windows. A shopfront stands next to it to the right displaying signs which read "Charlie Chaplin in the Gold Rush", "Angelo's Pure Orange Drinks", "La Falina[...]" and "Ice Cold Coca-Cola". A palm tree stands to the left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m25
title: A dilapidated adobe on the west side at the north end of the Broadway Tunnel, Los Angeles, 1920

description: Photograph of a dilapidated adobe on the west side at the north end of the Broadway Tunnel, Los Angeles, 1920. A collapsing picket fence leans in towards the property of the adobe at the right, leading to the main house which is partially obscured by a hill in the foreground. The adobes have plank veneers along their walls, and the adobe at the far left has a wash basin attached to its side. Several metal poles, which appear to be supports for unused clotheslines, hang in towards the adobes. In the background, telephone poles and the lavish Cabrinic House can be seen.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14568
title: Dice gamblers in Mexico, ca.1905-1910

description: Photograph of dice gamblers in Mexico, ca.1905-1910. One man sits at a makeshift table, shaking a dice can, about to throw them on the table. About a dozen onlookers (men and children) crowd around him.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m191
title: Zanja (irrigation ditch) which lies alongside the sidewalk on the west side of Figueroa Street looking south from 23rd Street, Los Angeles, ca.1890

description: Photograph of a zanja (irrigation ditch) which lies alongside the sidewalk on the west side of Figueroa Street looking south from 23rd Street, Los Angeles, ca.1890. A sidewalk can be seen at left into the background. It is lined by trees to the left and the zanja to the right. Well-groomed lawns, shrubs, flowers, and trees can be seen to the right. Parts of homes are visible above the treetops in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m27
title: An adobe on the east side north of the Broadway Tunnel, Los Angeles, 1920

description: Photograph of an adobe on the east side north of the Broadway Tunnel, Los Angeles, 1920. The back yard of the adobe is shown unkempt and littered with debris: oil drums and portions of machinery. In front of the cleared path, two wooden benches sit apart from one another a pile of smoothed stones next to the rightmost bench. The adobe itself is showing signs of disrepair, a whole chunk of its back wall crumbled to the sheetrock. In the background, on the street below, a station sporting the sign "Union Gas" can be seen.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m34
title: The Woodhead Residence on the corner of North Broadway and College Street, Los Angeles, 1883

description: Photograph of the Woodhead Residence on the corner of North Broadway and College Street, Los Angeles, 1883. A brick, Romanesque building sporting a rosetta window on the roof over the entrance faces the camera, surrounded by a dilapidated garden. A small dirt path enters in from the lower left, cutting past the remnants of two post-and-rail fences, the left of which has attached to it what appears to be a small post-box. A trellis, over which a few climbing roses are growing, has been built on the side of the house near an arched entranceway. The ground is dusty and fallow and grassless for the most part, growing what appear to be only weeds. Scraggly bushes seem to be dry and obscure much of the right side of the photo. Several tall stakes criss-cross each other on the left side of the house. Picture file card reads "Built by Mullally".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12400
title: Pacific Electric Railway subway tunnel under construction at First Street and Glendale Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1926

description: Photograph of a Pacific Electric Railway subway tunnel under construction at First Street and Glendale Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1926. Workers stand in and along a wide ditch that a back hoe is digging at center, billowing smoke. Further forward, three men stand, two of them looking at the back hoe with their hands in their pockets to either side of the third man, who is leaning in toward the window of an early pickup truck. A hill can be seen in the background, from which steps and a railing descend to the left toward a widening road and a two-story house with clapboard veneer where the rest of the workers stand on the edge of the deep groove in the ground, watching.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1219
title: Bank of Italy Building at the junction of Temple Street, Main Street and Spring Street looking east, Los Angeles, 1926

description: Photograph of the Bank of Italy Building at the junction of Temple Street, Main Street and Spring Street looking east, Los Angeles, 1926. The nine-story building, sporting molded archways over some of its upper windows, towers to the right of a street in which streetcar tracks can be seen. People stand on the sidewalk both on the corner in front of the Bank of Italy and across the street from it, towards the foreground of the photograph. A horse-drawn carriage rides between these sidewalks. In the distance, in front of a three-story building with gothic architecture, a streetcar can be seen running perpendicular to the main road. Pedestrians fill the street, both on foot and on bicycles.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4880
title: The sidewalk in Sonora Town on the east side of North Spring Street, Los Angeles, ca.1920-1929

description: Photograph of the sidewalk in Sonora Town on the east side of North Spring Street, Los Angeles, ca.1920-1929. A man, possibly Mayor Don Cristobel Aquilar, windowshops under the shade of the sidewalk's overhang. He wears workpants, a sweater and a hat. Signs to his left and to his right read "Tortugas" and "Fabricas & Tortillas / Mexica[...]" respectively between which a barber's pole stands. One of the double doors to the left of the windowshopper is open, revealing its punctured screen. Behind the telephone pole in the foreground, which blocks the view to the left, an automobile can be seen parked along the sidewalk.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4860
title: Jose Mascarel adobe at 721 Castelar Street in Sonora Town, Los Angeles, ca.1905

description: Photograph of the Jose Mascarel adobe at 721 Castelar Street in Sonora Town, Los Angeles, ca.1905. A man dressed in a dark suit and hat, possibly Jose Mascarel, stands next to the large adobe with one hand on his hip and the other on the adobe's outside wall. The adobe itself, built in 1842 by by Francisco Garcia and sold to Rafael Carrasco in 1852, stretches towards the right background, approximately sixty feet long. It sports a shingled roof and four-paned glass windows. A picket fence extends from the narrow wall to the left, enclosing a garden. A palm tree can be seen in the distance to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4881
title: Madam Begón's corner store in Sonora Town, 1905

description: Photograph of Madam Begón's corner store in Sonora Town, 1905. A man in a dark suit and hat stands against a telephone pole with his hand on his hip in front of the corner building of Madam Begón's store. The building, from which other shops appear to extend on either side, has concrete walls riddled with peeling flyers and advertisements, some of which read "SOAP" and "Sale". A wooden overhang shades both of the closed doors to the shop, situated on either side of the corner. In the foreground, the intersection of two unpaved streets can be seen.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4871
title: Exterior side of an adobe built on North Broadway by Don Enrique Sepulveda in Sonora Town, Los Angeles, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the exterior side of an adobe built on North Broadway by Don Enrique Sepulveda in Sonora Town, Los Angeles, ca.1905. The adobe, built in 1839, is shown here in obvious disrepair; to the left, the ragged edge of a brick wall juts beyond its adjoining wall, which is losing its spackle. The roof beams are visible from the side and both shingles and beams are evidently caving inwards. The peak of the roof further in the background to the right seems crooked and pitched. The ground around the adobe is dusty and littered with sparse weeds and dry grasses.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1534
title: Old Southern Pacific Railroad Station on Alameda Street near Commercial Street, Los Angeles, ca.1910-1940

description: Photograph of the Old Southern Pacific Railroad Station on Alameda Street near Commercial Street, Los Angeles, ca.1910-1940. The narrow end of a tall, barn-style longhouse sports both the names "Sunset Lime Co." and "Lumber Yard" surrounding its single window on that side. To the left, a horse-drawn wagon drives along the sidewalk past the broad side of the building and what appears to be its main entrance. The words "Sunset Lime Co." are marked yet again over the doors. Two short sections of picket fence mark the passageway to what appears to be a loading area to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12296
title: Oil seep in a "blowout", Mexico(?), ca.1930

description: Photograph of oil seep in a "blowout", Mexico(?), ca.1930. The oil is shooting straight up into the air and the wind carries it to the left. The oil derrick is about 75 feet high. A ladder proceeds up the side of it to the top which is completely obscured by the oil. A few trees and the roof of a building are visible at the bottom of the image.