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DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13503
title: Portrait of Kit Carson taken a few months before his death, 1867

description: Photographic portrait of Kit Carson taken a few months before his death, 1867. Mr. Carson is pictured from the knees up sitting in a chair, with his wavy hair combed to the right. He wears a dark jacket, as well as a vest, which is unbuttoned at the center. His face, although gaunt, appears full and healthy. He wears a moustache and his eyes are focused and piercing. His eyebrows are almost imperceptible. He was Fremont's scout in California campaigns.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2229
title: Fire station at Spring Street and Ninth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1887

description: Photograph of a fire station at Spring Street and Ninth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1887. An early horse-drawn fire engine with its pressurized pump stands in front of the two-story clapboard-veneered firehouse at center. A second wagon stands behind it, unadorned by equipment. Firemen and men in civilian clothes ride in both wagons. The engine driver is Michael McMahon. To the left of the driver of the hose cart is Jacob Kuhrts. Sitting on the hose is George Vail. On the rear step of the hose cart is Charles Fuselehr, with William Barry standing by the cart.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m10496
title: Centennial of American Independence celebration on Spring Street, 1876

description: Photograph of a view of Spring (Main?) Street in front of the Thirty-Eighth Fire Company Station during the celebration of the Centennial of American Independence, Los Angeles, 1876. The fire company has erected an archway which they have decorated with an American flag motif, the center of which sports what appears to be a picture of either George Washington or Thomas Jefferson. The date of independence, 1776, is displayed on the left, with the centennial year, 1876 on the right. Pedestrians fill the street to either side of the unpaved road, in which streetcar rails can be seen.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2222
title: The Los Angeles Fire Department marching down Main Street looking north from Central Avenue in the first civic parade in L.A., July 4, 1871

description: Photograph of the Los Angeles Fire Department marching down Main Street looking north from Central Avenue in the first civic parade in L.A., July 4, 1871. Twenty-six firemen arranged in two lines of thirteen trail the horse-drawn cart which holds the pressurized water pump. Spectators and other carriages are visible alongside the unpaved road to the left and in the distance. Shop fronts line the street to the left and in the right hand distance. Legible signs include: "Furniture / Bedding", and "Levy & Corblentz".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13186
title: Portrait of pupils on the steps of the Spring Street School, Los Angeles, ca.1890

description: Photographic portrait of pupils on the steps of the Spring Street School, Los Angeles, ca.1890. Eighteen girls and twenty-four boys are seated in five rows on the front steps of their school, the girls tending to be arranged toward the center. A young woman who appears to be their teacher sits second-in from the left on the top row, her hands folded in her lap. Most of the boys wear some sort of suit or button-down shirt, while most of the girls wear smock-type dresses. One African-American boy sits third-in from the left in the third row, while a young girl who appears to be Asian-American sits seven in. A young girl in the first row, third-in from the right, has been blurred.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1241
title: Corner of Spring Street and Fourth Street looking south on Spring, showing the Angelus Hotel, ca.1901

description: Photograph of the corner of Spring Street and Fourth Street looking south on Spring, showing the Angelus Hotel, ca.1901. The dual seven-story highrises of the Angelus stand on the corner, a banner on their right side that reads "The Angelus Will Open Dec.15 1901 / C.S. Holmes, Prop.". In front, over their decorated archway, a second banner reads "The Knotsford / Salt Lake City / [...] Proof". A streetcar makes its way along Fourth Street, while Victorian highrise buildings lien the right side of Spring Street to the left. Utility poles can be seen.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3891
title: View of Calle de Los Negros, looking north, Los Angeles, ca.1882

description: Photograph of a view of Calle de Los Negros (Negro Alley, colloquially referred to as "Nigger Alley" at the time), looking north, Los Angeles, ca.1882. A dilapidated adobe stands on the corner to the left, losing its spackle, while shop fronts stand along the street to the right. Horse-drawn carriages are parked in a large group in the distance while a lone carriage makes its way down the unpaved street towards the camera, a pedestrian in front of it. Utility poles are visible.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m834
title: Residence on southeast corner of 7th Street and Grand Avenue, ca.1905

description: Photograph of the southeast corner of Seventh Street and Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1905. A horse-drawn carriage is parked along the sidewalk to the left, its horse remaining but its rider gone. To the right, a two-story house with a clapboard veneer stands behind a wrought-iron fence on the corner where a fire hydrant and decorative tree are positioned. More trees and a second building are visible in the background to the left. The roads are unpaved.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m57
title: View of Broadway looking north from Second Street, showing the Los Angeles Times building in the background, ca.1889

description: Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from Second Street, showing the Los Angeles Times building in the background ca.1889. A horse-drawn carriage stands parked under the shade of a tree along the sidewalk in the left foreground, a man standing next to it further left. More carriages are parked along the sidewalk of the unpaved road to the right, behind which the top of the old Los Angeles Times building can be seen.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14607
title: Mission San Juan Capistrano, showing the arches from the northwest side, 1900

description: Photograph of Mission San Juan Capistrano, showing the arches from the northwest side, 1900. Two sides of the long rows of arches which once formed a large rectangle are visible. Most are in a state of ruin. Part of the other mission buildings are visible through the arches at right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13441
title: Portrait of Juan Bandini and his daughter Ysidora, ca.1880

description: Photographic portrait of Juan Bandini and his daughter Ysidora, ca.1880. Mr. Bandini, chosen congressional substitute and secretary to Mexican California Governor Pio Pico, can be seen seated in a suit and checkered vest and is holding the hand of his daughter. She can be seen seated to the right of him wearing what appears to be a lace and satin dress. Her hair is parted down the middle. Mr. Baldini wears a high collar and scarf-like tie. His hair is parted on the right, while his cheekbones are high and he is clean-shaven. He appears to be in his early sixties. His daughter has large, expressive eyes and appears to be in her twenties. Photoprint reads: "The man who captured Los Angeles".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13434
title: Portrait of General Phinius Banning, Matthew Keller and John N. Hollister, [s.d.]

description: Photographic portrait of General Phinius Banning, Matthew Keller and John N. Hollister, [s.d.]. Mr. Keller sits to the left and Mr. Hollister sits to the right while General Banning stands behind them. All men are stout and wearing suits. The bald and bearded Mr. Hollister is the odd man out of the group, wearing a lightly-colored suit. General Banning's watch fob is visible along his vest. His hair has been combed back and above his forehead, exposing his intense stare. He rests his hand on Mr. Keller's shoulder, who wears his hair wavy and combed to the sides, and who has small, beady eyes.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4911
title: Crowd at the lynching of Lashenais (sp?) on the corner of Temple Street and New High (Justica) Street, Los Angeles, 1870

description: Photograph of a crowd at the lynching of Lashenais (sp?) on the corner of Temple Street and New High (Justica) Street, Los Angeles, 1870. A crowd of people gathers around the gate to the lumber yard. Lashenais, who was lynched for killing Jacob Bell, hangs from the archway. Many people towards the outside of the crowd simply sit, inactive. Tents and other spectators can be seen on the hill in the background. The image also shows Pound Cake Hill, which would later become the site of the Court House and then the Criminal Courts Building.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13666
title: Painting of Father Garces, the Franciscan who named the Colorado River, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a painting of Father Garces, the Franciscan who named the Colorado River, [s.d.]. Garces is pictured coming through tall weeds, dressed in his monk's habit, along with a cap. He is shown from head to toe, although the weeds obscure his feet. He appears to be no older than middle-age. He lived among the Indians along the Colorado River. He was beaten to death by the Yuma Indians on July 17, 1781. His statue is in Yuma.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4691
title: Portrait of the students of the Spring Street School, Los Angeles, ca.1860-1900

description: Photographic portrait of the students of the Spring Street School, Los Angeles, ca.1860-1900. The school is located on the northwest corner of Spring Street and Second Street. Mrs. Louise Hayes, the first teacher employed by the city of Los Angeles, stands behind her students to the left, in front of the school's brick building. The students are comprised of thirty-six boys and ten girls arranged in five rows with the first row sitting on the ground. Almost all the boys are wearing short pants, and all the girls wear dresses. Two African-American students are pictured.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1953
title: View of Washington Boulevard looking south-west, Culver city, August 1929

description: Photograph of Washington Boulevard looking south-west near the intersection with Culver Boulevard, Culver city, August 1929. Automobiles drive and park along the pave street, which is lined by commercial buildings to either side. Pictured are the Culver City Hotel, Milse's Café, the Army-Navy Store and the First National Bank. Other legible signs include: "Cafeteria", "Soda / Drugs / Grill", "Parking Time Limit 2 Hours", "Southern California Edison", "Sada's Flowers" and "Safeway Store".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m426
title: "The Miracle Mile" of Wilshire Boulevard looking east from Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1929

description: Photograph of "The Miracle Mile" of Wilshire Boulevard looking east from Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1929. Automobiles park and drive along Wilshire which is lined by decorative trees and empty lots to the right and oil siphons with a few small commercial shop fronts to the left. Billboards and signs read "Wilshire Blvd. Frontage / High Class Income Property in this Vicinity / Hugh Evans & Co. Inc.", "Café La Boheme / Dining & Dancing", "Yellow Cab Station", "Beverly Blvd. Frontage / Third St. Frontage", "Hugh Evans & Co. Wilshire-Fairfax Tract Office", "Newmark's Mountain Grown Coffee used Exclusively by the Ambassador Hotel", and "Lassco [...] Hawaii".; Miracle Mile was a commercial strip on Wilshire from LaBrea to Fairfax avenues developed in 1921 by realator A.W. Ross who recognized that the automobile would decentralize downtown business.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m428
title: "The Miracle Mile" of Wilshire Boulevard looking east from Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1929

description: Photograph of "The Miracle Mile" of Wilshire Boulevard looking east from Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1929. The photograph shows a number of automobiles parked along Wilshire Boulevard which is lined by decorative trees and empty lots to the right and oil derricks with a few small commercial shop fronts to the left. Billboards and signs read "Wilshire Blvd. Frontage / High Class Income Property in this Vicinity / Hugh Evans & Co. Inc.", "Café La Boheme / Dining & Dancing", "Yellow Cab Station", "Beverly Blvd. Frontage / Third St. Frontage", "Hugh Evans & Co. Wilshire-Fairfax Tract Office", "Newmark's Mountain Grown Coffee used Exclusively by the Ambassador Hotel", and "Lassco [...] Hawaii".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m719
title: View of Santa Monica Boulevard looking northeast, showing Beverly Glen Boulevard, ca.1929

description: Photograph of a view of Santa Monica Boulevard looking northeast, showing Beverly Glen Boulevard, ca.1929. Utility poles stretch telephone lines down the boulevard while the residential area of Beverly Glen can be seen off in the distance to the right. The terrain to the left of the road is hilly and covered in dry grass.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17924
title: Panoramic view of Beverly Glen along Santa Monica Boulevard, ca.1908

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of Beverly Glen along Santa Monica Boulevard, ca.1908. Two oil siphons can be seen along the left side of the road in the distance, while a small farm homestead shows its barn, stables and windmill just beyond the hill in the right foreground. A water tower and a larger building are visible on the horizon in the left distance along with the mountains across the entire background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1957
title: Hayfield in Culver City, ca.1913

description: Photograph of a hayfield in Culver City, ca.1913. Several piles of hay have not yet been rolled into bales. A road is just barely visible to the right side of the frame, while clusters of trees and the silhouettes of residential areas are visible along the horizon in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8803
title: The patio at Guajome Ranch, San Diego County, ca.1901-1930

description: Photograph of the patio at Guajome Ranch, San Diego County ("Sheepwash Place"?), ca.1901-1930. The concrete (or stone) floored veranda is covered with a sloping wooden roof. Trellises form a low rail that separates the covered veranda from the garden. A fountain is in the middle of the garden.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3383
title: Portrait of a family at their home on the southwest corner of Wilcox Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1896

description: Photographic portrait of a family at their home on the southwest corner of Wilcox Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, ca.1896. A man in a button-down shirt and a gardener's hat stands to the right on his family's lawn while three women sit and stand to the left of him. The oldest is a stout woman who sits in a chair, wearing a dark geometrically-patterned dress. Two younger women are arranged to either side of her, the youngest, who looks roughly twenty, sits to the right of her, while a more middle-aged woman stands to the left behind an agave plant. The corner of their clapboard-sided house is just partially visible to the extreme left. An orchard is visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17925
title: Portrait of William D. Laraby, chief engineer of the Pacific Electric Railroad, ca.1900

description: Photographic portrait of William D. Laraby, chief engineer of the Pacific Electric Railroad, ca.1900. Mr. Laraby is pictured in bust looking straight ahead, cropped into an oval frame. He wears a tweed jacket that buttons up to the top of his chest, a button-down shirt and a tie. His eyes are wide and appear gentle, if not earnest. He wears a graying handlebar moustache and has combed his thinning hair into a quiff to the left. His ears are large and have lobes connected to the face.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17926
title: Portrait of Sir J. Cliffton Robinson, ca.1889-1890

description: Photograph of a portrait of Sir J. Cliffton Robinson, ca.1889-1890. Sir Robinson, the tramway king who put in the cable railroad for the Los Angeles Cable Railway Company owned by the Pacific Railway Company of Chicago, is depicted standing up against a neutral background, dressed in a suit. His watch fob is visible across his stomach, dropping onto his pants pocket at right, where he has secured his hand. He holds the stub of a cigar in his other hand. He is balding, with two tufts of hair to either side near his ears, and sport a handlebar moustache. Writing in the lower left corner of the image reads "SP 4". Picture file card reads: "J.F. Crank -- general manager/president 1890".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3358
title: View of Santa Monica Boulevard looking east from Beachwood Drive, Hollywood, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a view of Santa Monica Boulevard looking east from Beachwood Drive, Hollywood, ca.1900. Trees line either side of the narrow, unpaved road. A windmill can be seen behind them to the right, a house to the left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3407
title: View of Sunset Boulevard looking north from Normandie Street, Hollywood, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a view of Sunset Boulevard looking north from Normandie Street, Hollywood, ca.1900. Trees line the wide, unpaved dirt road to either side. A hedge row is visible behind them to the left, a barbed-wire fence to the right. A driveway is partially visible in the left foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8388
title: Panoramic view of the ruins of the San Bernardino Mission and Barton Villa, 1890

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of the ruins of the San Bernardino Mission and Barton Villa, 1890. Small dirt paths weave their way over the hilly terrain from the foreground of the photo to the distance where the collapsed adobe walls of the mission can be seen. To the extreme left, the several story building of the Barton Villia, built in 1867 by Dr. Benjamin Barton,  is visible. Mountains are also visible in the background. Barton became the pioneer druggist to San Bernardino.  In 1857 he purchased 1000 acres outside of the Redlands later known as Barton Hill, which included the San Bernardino Asistencia (Mission) buildings. His home, the villia, is located a short distance away from the old mission adobes.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8387
title: Panoramic view of the ruins of San Bernardino Chapel, ca.1890

description: Photograph of a panoramic view of the ruins of San Bernardino Chapel, ca.1890. A post-and-rail fence can be seen, separating the fallen buildings of the San Bernardino mission from the Barton Villa at left, which is partially obscured by trees. Mountains are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8346
title: Exterior view of the Ranco Rincón de LaBrea, the residence of F.M. Slaughter, San Bernardino, ca.1900

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Ranco Rincón de LaBrea, the residence of F.M. Slaughter, San Bernardino, ca.1900. A group of thirteen people sit out under the eaves of the porch of the long house. A second building, or annex, is visible behind it to the left. Slaughter was a member of the California State Assembly. Picture file card reads: "Mrs. Julia Fuqua, Father Raymondo Yorba build this residence at the time his father, Bernardo Yorba, owned the Ranch.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8345
title: Portrait of a family outside of the F.M. Slaughter residence on Rincón Rancho, San Bernardino, ca.1900

description: Photographic portrait of a family outside of the F.M. Slaughter residence on Rincón Rancho, San Bernardino, ca.1900. Two men and four women stand on the lawn outside the rancho build by Raymond Yorba, son of Bernardo Yorba. They are partially obscured by some shrubs in front of them. The tallest man stands to the left, in suspenders and work hat, while two middle-aged women stand to the right of him, one thin, the other corpulent. Next, the second man stands with a white beard and similar dress, flanked to his right by two younger women, the youngest of which appears to be in her late teens and stands to the extreme right. No grass grows under the bushes in the foreground, and the soil appears tilled.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17927
title: Drawing by Henry Chapman Ford, depicting the San Marcos Mission Station ruins in San Inez Valley, ca.1885

description: Photograph of a drawing of the San Marcos Mission Station ruins in San Inez Valley by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1885. Four windows are visible on what is left of the adobe wall at center. Several roof beams are still supported above the ground by the remains of the other three collapsing walls. A tree is pictured to the right and a cluster of trees, along with mountains, is visible in the distance. Writing at the lower right hand corner reads "Sts./1.50".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8804
title: Ruins of the tile chimney and elliptical arches at Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the ruins of the tile chimney and elliptical arches at Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, ca.1900. Some wooden planks run along the base of the arches.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7758
title: Sketch by Henry Chapman Ford, depicting the Laguna Rancho near the San Jacinto Mountains and Temecula, June, 1888

description: Photograph of a sketch of Laguna Rancho near the San Jacinto Mountains and Temecula by Henry Chapman Ford, June, 1888. A shack and a small house can be seen in the distance at center at the foot of the mountains. A second building, perhaps a general store, is embedded in the mountainside to the left. Some trees are visible and a few, scraggly stripes of grass fill the flatland in the foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8393
title: Sketch by Henry Chapman Ford depicting the ruins of the Chapel at Agua Mansa, 1888

description: Photograph of a sketch of ruins of the Chapel at Agua Mansa, 1888. Two buildings are visible at center, roofless and with their walls collapsing. The spackle is crumbling from off their adobe and their roof beams have fallen in. Trees are visible in the foreground to the left. A dead trunk is visible to the right. Forest is visible in the background.; "The Chapel was built in 1843 by five families living on Rancho Jurupa in San Bernardino County, owned by Juan Bandini. In 1852 the Chapel was destroyed by the flooding of the Santa Ana river.  A new chapel was erected on a knoll known as San Salvado Hill. One of the floods of 1862 wiped out the village around the church. However, the church survived. The surviving church is the one pictured. Services in the first church were conducted by visiting priests from San Gabriel, but the second church was put in the charge of Father Ambel. The timber for both churches was hauled from Mill Creek. The site of the second church later became the orange and lemon groves of J. Loyd Jones, one and a half miles from Colton."--G.W. Beattie, Highland, CA.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m659
title: Aerial view of downtown Los Angeles taken just above 12th Street, looking north up Broadway, ca.1921-1927

description: Photograph of an aerial view of downtown Los Angeles taken just above 12th Street, looking north up Broadway, ca.1921-1927. Skyscrapers fill the scene as automobiles and streetcars navigate the roads below. The scaffolding of a building in progress is visible in the lower left corner, while the Western Auto Supply building is visible at center. Other legible signs include: "Blackstone's", "Majestic Theatre", "The Gould Hat & Frame Co.", and "Easter Outfitting Co.". See CHS-7094. Photo depicts an 1878 lithograph of the same region. Visible in the photograph: Broadway and Broadway Place diverge south of 10th Street (behind Western Auto Supply sign); Spring Street and Main Street converge at 9th Street (middle right); The County Hall of Records is visible in the distance, at the top right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17928
title: Sketch by Henry Chapman Ford, depicting the Mission Santa Maguerita, ca.1900

description: Photograph of a sketch of the Mission Santa Maguerita by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1900. The remains of the long mission adobe are shown at center, the straw thatching for the roof caving in at the main entrance to the left. A door and four windows are visible. Mountains can be seen in the background. A group of trees stands to the left.