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DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3482
title: External view of shack at Arrowhead Hot Springs, San Bernardino, ca.1876

description: Photograph of an external view of shack at Arrowhead Hot Springs, San Bernardino, ca.1876. A post-and-rail fence made from scrap wood and branches surrounds a small clearing at the base of a hill in which a long shack with three doors and one window stands to the immediate right of a smaller shack that has clapboard siding. Further away to the left, what appears to be an outhouse can be seen. A man stands in the leftmost doorway of the longer shack. Hilly terrain and mountains fill the background, while desert brush and a rock to the right fill the foreground. A horse can be seen grazing behind the enclosure to the right.; "I had a talk with John Brown Jr., who told me that David N. Smith erected the first buildings at Arrowhead Springs - the ones shown in your print - about 1864. Mr. Brown, offhand, could not fix the date more definitely. He said Smith was keeper of the upper gate on the Cajon Pass toll road from 1861 until he moved to Arrowhead. Smith gave hydropathie treatment while living in the toll road, but realized that the Spring possessed certain advantages. The building you show stood close to the cienega that supplies the hot mud used in treatment at the arrowhead." -- G.W. Beattie 1876.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1345
title: Portrait of men standing outside the Woodhead and Gay Store, Los Angeles, ca.1880

description: Photographic portrait of men standing outside the Woodhead and Gay Store on 46 and 48 north Spring Street, Los Angeles, ca.1880. Four men stand posed in front of the Woodhead & Gay General Store next to a horse-drawn cart to the right of them in back of which a fifth man stands, while several others in the background move along or seem uninterested in the photograph. A plow and other, boxed goods are piled in front of one of the men to the left. The general store itself is one story tall features three large panes for display windows, and extends eaves over the group of men. The H.J. Woollacott liquor store is also visible to the right.; Signs include: "Fruit  Domestic & Foreign / Green Dried and Canned Nuts  and Honey", "Woodhead & Gay Commission Merchants. Wholesale & Retail Dealers in General Produce.", "Trees Fruit and Ornamental / Shrubs, Plants, Flower, Field and Garden Seeds.", and "H.J. Woollacott, Fine Liquors / Wholesale Wine & Liquor". A man at the entrance to the general store appears either edited out or faded by motion. Picture File Card reads "Mr. Bell was bookkeeper, L.E. Myers was head clerk.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2402
title: Santa Monica Bath House on Santa Monica Beach, ca.1884

description: Photograph of Santa Monica Bath House on Santa Monica Beach, ca.1884. The long, two-story barn-style bath house stands in the background just below the land shelf behind it where a small residence-style house has been built. Crowds of beachgoers make their way towards the water to the left and a few have already made it in. Mountains are visible in the left background. Picture File Card reads "South beach called Old Santa Monica.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2415
title: View of the shore at Santa Monica taken from the Old Santa Monica Hotel, ca.1885

description: Photograph of a view of the shore at Santa Monica taken from the Old Santa Monica Hotel, ca.1885. The balcony of the Old Santa Monica Hotel is visible in the right foreground while a long stable-style building stands surrounded with people in the distance to the left. Horse-drawn carriages park and drive along the perimeter of a crescent of post-and-rail fence that demarcates a clearing at center behind which people are seated under a gazebo. Some kind of frame, possibly for the wall of a new building, has been erected to the far left. The ocean is visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m173
title: Birdseye view of east Los Angeles, showing the Downey Avenue bridge, ca.1873

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of east Los Angeles taken from north of Bishop Street, showing the Downey Avenue bridge, ca.1873. An elevation of ground fills a large portion of the left foreground, with the widely-dispersed houses of early east L.A. below. The continuous truss Downey Avenue bridge is visible at center, with a line comprised of a house and four shed-like buildings to its right. Further in the foreground at right, a house is visible just beyond the elevation, with a sowed field extending out next to it. In the distance to the left, the houses are spaced more closely together, although still diffuse. Mountains are visible on the horizon.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m643
title: Portrait of family members at the Haas Ranch,  Los Angeles, 1873

description: Photographic portrait of family members at the Haas Ranch on the west side of Main Street between Washington Avenue and Adams Street, Los Angeles, 1873. A group of people on horseback and on foot stand in front of a picket fence approximately six feet in height. To the left, a man stands next to a tall stump with a small boy standing at his side and another mounted on a horse to his right. Further right, a woman stands on the ground in front of a man tending the reigns of a horse-drawn wagon. A final man is seated on his horse with is hand on top of the fence furthest to the right. The roof of a house is partially visible behind the thick tree cover in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1067
title: People standing outside the Woodhead & Gay general store, Los Angeles, ca.1880

description: Photograph of people standing outside the Woodhead & Gay general store, headquarters for Milton Thomas Nurseries, Los Angeles, ca.1880. Sixteen people are situated in various position along the wooden sidewalk in front of the small Woodhead & Gay store. At center, a man tends a horse-drawn wagon while five children sit to his right and two men stand behind him. A third man is partially blurred directly next to him, possibly from motion. To the left, three other men stand behind the wagon, while four blurry others attend to luggage to the extreme left. An overgrown lot to the right of Woodhead & Gay contains the sign for Milton Thomas which reads "Headquarters of Milton Thomas and the Co-operative Nurseries and Fruit Growing Association Southern California Agency for Trumbull's Garden Flower Field and Tree Seeds.". The general store sign to the left reads "Woodhead &  Gay / General Commission Merchants. / Fruits, Seeds, Plants, Trees.". A third sign on an unidentified building in the left background reads "Crockery. / Cherry and Willowware / Wholesale & Retail.", as well as "China Ware.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17917
title: Portrait of General Stoneman and family at the Los Robles Ranch, San Gabriel, ca.1878-1880

description: Photographic portrait of General Stoneman and family at the Los Robles Ranch, San Gabriel, ca.1878-1880. General Stoneman, a celebrated Cavalry leader during the Civil War, stands dressed in a suit to the left of the house's porch at right on which his wife, a second woman further up on the porch, and five children are situated. He rests his left hand in his lapel and the other on the top of a hoe's handle. Roses have grown over the porch's eaves, up to the second story of the clapboarded house. Picture File Card reads: "He was asking $125,000 for his ranch at the time the photo was taken".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12592
title: Portrait of men posed around a mule-drawn streetcar at the corner of Downey Avenue and Pritchard Avenue, March 1889

description: Photographic portrait of men posed around a mule-drawn streetcar at the corner of Downey Avenue (north Broadway) and Pritchard Avenue (Lincoln Park Avenue), Los Angeles, March 1889. Two men in conductor's uniforms stand to the fore and the aft of the car while two men in civilian clothes stand between them, one on the running board of the car. A fifth man stands inside the car, obscured by shadows. Two mules are hitched at left. The home of Baron Rogniat can be seen on the hill in the background, which later became the site of the Lincoln Heights High School in 1942 after the Rogniat mansion burned down on May 17 of 1891.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12449
title: Portrait of people posed around two electric streetcars at Sycamore Park, ca.1895

description: Photographic portrait of people posed around two electric streetcars at Sycamore Park on the way to Pasadena, ca.1895. Thirteen people, five of whom are dressed in conductor's uniforms, stand around or inside two electric rail cars. One conductor stands at the front of the leftmost car while a passenger sits inside, a second conductor on the ground at the aft with men in civilian clothes in front and in back of him. Two more civilians are seated at the front of the second car, while two conductors stand to either side of a passenger between them, behind which a little girl is visible on the car. Two final passengers lean against the car to the right. Signs on the cars read "R.R. Depots West Lake Park", "L.A. Con. Electric P. [...]", "South and Broadway / 102 / University Division / Washington Agricultural [...]", "Jacoby Bros.", "Gummings", "The Shoe Man / [...] & Spring" and "East Los Angeles Plaza [...]".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12588
title: Dummy railroad line that ran from Hoover Street and Temple Street to East Hollywood, ca.1892

description: Photographic portrait of seven men in front of an engine and passenger car of a little "Dummy" railroad that ran from the end of the Temple Street cable railroad at Hoover Street to the foothills at east Hollywood, ca.1892. Two men in suits lean against the passenger car to the left, which is filled with passengers, while a third man also leans further down the car. Two more civilians and the conductor are seated and standing at the connection point between the locomotive engine and the passenger car. The engineer, who was employed by the RR for 18 years, is pictured standing just outside the engine's cabin. The seats inside the passenger car appear to be unsecured regular wooden chairs. The engineer's brother was also employed for 16 years as a fireman.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12473
title: View looking northeast on Temple Street from Hoover Street, Los Angeles, ca.1890

description: Photograph of a view looking northeast on Temple Street from Hoover Street, Los Angeles, ca.1890. A depression is surrounded in the foreground by a barbed-wire fence with a ground elevation in the background. To the left, a trolley car makes its way up a hill on the unpaved Temple Street. Utility poles line the road to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12591
title: Horse-drawn streetcar on Main Street and Winston Street, showing the Post Office, ca.1892

description: Photograph of a horse-drawn streetcar on Main Street and Winston Street, showing the Post Office, ca.1892. The coachman stands inside the car holding the reigns at left, while a second conductor stands hanging off the running board at the back. Behind them to the right, a large, two-story gothic building with arched windows can be seen. To the left, the front window of a bank is visible. The sign on the trolley car reads "Southern Pacific Depot / Main & Fifth Sts. and Temple Block".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12478
title: One of the first successful types of streetcar used on the Second Street hill by the Los Angeles Railway Company at Central Avenue and Sixth Street looking west, West Lake Park, ca.1891

description: Photograph of one of the first successful types of streetcar used on the Second Street hill by the Los Angeles Railway Company at Central Avenue and Sixth Street looking west, West Lake Park, ca.1891. The car stands empty at the center of an unpaved dirt road with six main open-air windows on each lengthwise side flanked by two smaller windows to the left and right. It's trolley pole extending to the trolley wire above it. A sign on the car reads "Transfers to All Parts of the City". Houses and utility poles are visible in the background. To the left, advertisement signs read "Everything in Wearables for Man, woman and Child, / [Ea]sy Payments [...] Broadway / [...] Dept. West  of Ch[...]".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12593
title: Horse-drawn streetcar for the Redondo Depot Car Line with its driver, ca.1897

description: Photograph of a horse-drawn streetcar for the Redondo Depot Car Line and its driver looking east on Jefferson Boulevard at Royal Street, Redondo Beach, ca.1897. The small passenger car features four rows of decorative benches and is supported by four wheels to which shocks are attached. Only one horse is hitched to the car. The driver stands at the helm of the car, at left. There appears to be no track on the unpaved road beneath him. The marquee on the side of the car reads "Main & Jefferson Sts. and Park.".; Photoprint reads: "Horse cars appeared on Los Angeles streets in 1874. One line was running as late as 1901. This car ran out Main and Jefferson Sts. to Exposition Park".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14601
title: Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, showing a stone grill beyond the dilapidated arcade arches, California, 1900

description: Photograph of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, showing a stone grill beyond the dilapidated arcade arches, California, 1900. Stucco has come off of the wall at left, exposing the brick structure underneath.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12589
title: Temple Street Cable Railway car with its trailer at the juncture of Temple Street and Hoover Street, ca.1889

description: Photograph of a Temple Street Cable Railway car with its trailer at the juncture of Temple Street and Hoover Street during mid-winder, ca.1889. The main car stands at left with the number seven painted on its side with a sign reading "Spring, Temple & City Limits". To the left, a second car that does not seem to have any means of propulsion is hitched to the primary car and seems to be mainly for passengers. Two conductors stand on the ground in front of the two cars, dressed in their uniforms, which include straw hats. Hills are visible in the background. Picture File Card reads "Graded from top of hill to Hoover. Walter F.(?) Maxwell, president of Temple St. Cable RR.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m611
title: View of Main Street looking north from below Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1884

description: Photograph of a view of Main Street looking north from below Second Street, Los Angeles, ca.1884. A streetcar navigates down the unpaved street along with horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians. St. Vibiana's Cathedral, with its arabasque architecture, is visible to the right, in front of which a dog stands on the sidewalk. Trees line the left side of the street while more elaborately-designed buildings fill the rest of the right side.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12582
title: Cable car with its trailer on north Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1890

description: Photograph of a cable car with its trailer on north Broadway looking north on Alta Street, Los Angeles, ca.1890. The main car stands at right, with several passengers seated in it, while the secondary passenger car remains empty but still hitched to the propulsion car. Two engineers stand on the ground in front of the cars. Trees are visible behind them. Signs on the cars read "Redondo S.P. Santa Fe & L.A.P & O[...]lway Depots", and "Downey Ave. Main St. Broadway & [...]".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2024
title: Bridge across the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza, showing the first cable-car to cross it, ca.1895

description: Photograph of a bridge across the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza, showing the first cable-car to cross it, ca.1895. A group of eighteen people pose around and in front of a cable-car coming across the trestle from Cawston's Ostrich Farm in South Pasadena, approaching the U.S.C. College of Fine Arts in Garvanza. The man at the controls is named G.J. Roller. The L.A. and San Gabriel Valley Railroad, completed in 1885, is visible in the background crossing a second trestle across the arroyo. A hill is visible in the left distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12445
title: Open-air streetcar with its trailer and two operators on west Seventh Street looking north from Alvarado Street, ca.1890

description: Photograph of an open-air streetcar with its trailer and two operators on west Seventh Street looking north from Alvarado Street, ca.1890. The brakeman, John Menzes is pictured to the right on the running board of the trailer car, while Thompson, the conductor is situated on the running board of the main car to the left. They wear their uniforms. West Lake Park is visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2197
title: View of Lincoln Heights from Elysian Park, location of the new Tujunga Parkway, Los Angeles, February 9, 1928

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Lincoln Heights from Elysian Park, location of the new Tujunga Parkway, Los Angeles, February 9, 1928. A hill covered with dry grass in the left foreground obscures an overpass at center. Dayton Avenue (later Figueroa Street) cut through the center of the frame from the right bottom corner, residential Los Angeles following above it in the frame, stretching towards the mountains on the horizon.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m755
title: View of Spring Street looking north from First Street on the opening day of the cable-car line, June 8, 1889

description: Photograph of a view of Spring Street looking north from First Street on the opening day of the cable-car line, June 8, 1889. A cable-car and its trailer car, decorated with American-flag banners and full of passengers, makes its way down the street in the right foreground while horse-drawn carriages navigate it further back. A crowd of spectators have gathered in the left foreground to watch the cars, a utility pole jutting up from the center of them. High rise buildings with commercial signs line the street to either side. Legible signs include: "Union Loan Office", "CIG", "Mr. Sign Co. / [...] Sign & House Painters", "Tribune" and "Gardener's Toast[...]ounder".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m10497
title: View of the corner of Second Street and Spring Street during the Columbus Day Parade, October 21, 1892

description: Photograph of a view of the corner of Second Street and Spring Street during the Columbus Day Parade, October 21, 1892. Two cable-cars and a horse-drawn carriage attempt to make their way down the streets that are congested with celebratory citizens. The facades of high rise buildings are visible in the background, with signs reading "[...] Dry Goods, and Notions." as well as "Bank" from which building more celebrants are hanging crepe paper out a balcony window. Utility lines fill the space near the top of the frame.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4913
title: View of north Broadway in Sonora Town looking north from Fort Hill, ca.1869

description: Photograph of a view of north Broadway in Sonora Town looking north from Fort Hill, Los Angeles, ca.1869. Rocks cut in from the left foreground, obscuring some of the view of the town, which is comprised mostly out of craftsman-style houses arranged more or less each on their own block. The road is unpaved, visible to the right of center. Mountains are visible in the background. Photograph compares to CHS-6908, CHS-6954, CHS-7388 and CHS-7390.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12466
title: Portrait of operators and passengers on and around the first successful electric streetcar in Los Angeles, ca.1885

description: Photographic portrait of operators and passengers on and around the first successful electric streetcar in Los Angeles, ca.1885. Twelve men, two of which are operators, stand on the running boards of the streetcar, which is decorated on top by seven American flags and in by a wreath at its front. Four young children stand in the foreground, starting at the left and continuing in line toward the front of the trolley, while final men stand back from the car to the extreme right. A clapboard-faced building is partially visible behind them.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14602
title: Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, showing the ruined arches and entrance, 1900

description: Photograph of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, showing the ruined arches and entrance, California, 1900. A longer line of arches is visible through two in the foreground. In places the bricks of the structure are almost completely exposed and devoid of stucco.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12578
title: Grand Avenue cable car looking south on Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1889

description: Photograph of a Grand Avenue Line cable car with its trailer looking south on Grand Avenue between Seventh Street and Eighth Street, showing the Eighth and Grand School in the background, Los Angeles, ca.1889. The open-air trailer car with its wrought-iron guard rails stands to the right, with a sign that reads "Redondo, S.P. Santa Fe & Terminal Railway Depots". The main car stands hitched to it to the left, its striped door-flaps down on the far side. Its signs read: "Hawley King & Co. / Everything on Wheels", "[...] Main St., Broadway & Grand Ave." and "Pacific Railway Company". The 8th and Grand School is visible just behind heavy tree cover to the left. The road appears unpaved.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12584
title: Streetcar coming over the south end of the Los Angeles Cable Railroad viaduct, ca.1889

description: Photograph of a streetcar coming over the south end of the Los Angeles Cable Railroad viaduct at Spring Street and College Street, ca.1889. The elevated viaduct comes in from the distance at right, extending into the left foreground where a streetcar and its trailer car make their way down the off-ramp full of passengers, a pedestrian in front of them. The sign over the exit-way reads "Caution, no Thoroughfare.". The Capitol Milling Company building is partially visible in the background. Utility poles stand, off in the distance to the right, along with hills. The caption under the photo reads "Though Horses and Buggies Created the Traffic Problems About 1889, the Los Angeles Cable Railway Used This Elevated Viaduct".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12630
title: Exterior view of the Los Angeles Electric Railroad plant, ca.1892

description: Photograph of the Los Angeles Electric Railroad plant between 6th and 7th Street on Central Avenue, ca.1892. The plant, which opened on July 4 in 1891, fills the frame from its left edge to its right, a massive brick complex with arched windows. A large, striated smokestack rises from inside the compound to the left. In front, several streetcars are exiting a garage and driving along a post-and-rail fence. Dry grass and shrubs over flat ground fill the rest of the foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4362
title: View of Olive Avenue looking southeast, showing Burbank in the distance, ca.1887

description: Photograph of a view of Olive Avenue looking southeast, showing Burbank in the distance, ca.1887. An unpaved road fills most of the frame, showing a horse-drawn trolley-car track at its center that was discontinued after roughly one year. In the distance, a horse-drawn carriage navigates the road, flanked to either side by diffuse farm homesteads. A windmill tower and the spires of a church can be seen to the left of the street. Mountains are visible along the horizon.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12585
title: View of a cable car looking southwest from the end of the Grand Avenue Cable Car line, ca.1890

description: Photograph of a view of a cable car with its trailer looking southwest from the end of the Grand Avenue Cable Car line on the corner of Jefferson Avenue, ca.1890. The conductor stands in his uniform on the running board of the main car to the left, while the brakeman stands on the ground with his longcoat on to the right, a man sitting in next to him on the trailer car's bench. A fourth man is pictured in the background on the other side of the trailer car. Picture file card reads: "Thomas Nursery House Flare".