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California -- History -- Pictorial works.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Automobile trip from Denver to Los Angeles

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 256
Scope and Contents Images of an automobile trip from Denver to Los Angeles, California undertaken in January 1913 by Roy S. Thompson of Topeka, Kansas, and Louis Wecker and Harold Kountze of Denver, Colorado. Views of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Includes photos of automobiles and roads, car repairs and tire changes, Pueblo, Colorado, an automobile ferry across the Colorado River at Ehrenburg, a dam, "Brayton Com'l Co.," a Post Office and hotel, ostriches, "Mecca Post Office," people at the...
Dates: between 1913 January and 1927

California South West

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 226
Scope and Contents

Album contains 49 albumen prints by Charles W.J. Johnson, Charles R. Savage, William Henry Jackson and one or more unknown photographers showing California, Utah, and Colorado.

Dates: between 1880 and 1890?

E.C. Engelhardt Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 53
Scope and Contents Collection contains stereoviews and lantern slides of street scenes, hotels, movie theaters, churches, government buildings, parks, the Coliseum, and businesses in and near Los Angeles, California. Views of Forest Lawn in Glendale, Mission San Juan Capistrano in San Juan Capistrano, and the piers at Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Venice Beach, the Kern River and the Kern River Canyon. Images of the Philippine Islands and Cuba during the Spanish American War, Yosemite National...
Dates: circa 1871-1930s

Fred Harvey photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 189
Scope and Contents

These images were photographed by and for the Fred Harvey Company. Images of Fred Harvey restaurants, hotels, newsstands, gift shops, other business enterprises, and employees are represented, including some of the famous "Harvey Girls," women whom Harvey employed as waitresses. Views in Arizona, California, and New Mexico. Images are from the 1890's through the 1950's.

Dates: between 1980 and 1990?

King's River Canyon on line Southern Pacific Co

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 106
Scope and Contents

Views in California's Kings River Canyon (later Kings Canyon National Park) including Giant Forest, Kaweah, General Grant National Park, North Dome, Glacier Monument, Paradise Canyon, Bubbs Creek, High Sierras and images of rangers' camps, burros, and miners.

Dates: between 1890 and 1910?

Pasadena

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 298
Scope and Contents

Views of Pasadena, California, and the Fiesta de las Flores (Tournament of Roses) parade, the Mount Lowe Railroad, and miscellaneous images of California, including Hollywood homes, missions, and the Pacific Ocean.

Dates: circa 1900-1910

Phyllis W. Jordan Photo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 81
Scope and Contents

Views of Colorado, including Denver, Colorado Springs, the Air Force Academy, Georgetown, Silver Plume, Garden of the Gods, Vail and rural Colorado. Images of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition). Views of California, these include Lake Tahoe, San Diego, Hollywood, Pasadena, and images of Carson City Nevada. Slides have handwritten identification.

Dates: circa 1959 and 1966

Souvenir postals

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 273
Scope and Contents

Views of houses, buildings, historical sites, bridges, monuments, etc. in Colorado, New York, Arizona, California, and other states. Views of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. A few views from outside the United States.

Dates: between 1906 and 1907?

Views of early California

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 112
Scope and Contents

Views of San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Monterey, Pacific Grove, San Luis Obispo, Pasadena, and San Jose, California. Images of sailing ships, sailors, ports, the first state house, hotels, Chinese workers, and coastline.

Dates: between 1880 and 1890?

William G. Akerhielm [photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Album 230
Scope and Contents

Snapshots of hiking, camping, fishing, swimming, vacations, and outings in California and images of Army basic training in California and Nogales, Arizona. Views of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California.

Dates: between 1914 and 1916

William Henry Jackson Photochrom collection

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 84
Scope and Contents BOX 1 (Colorado & Indians). Ouray -- Panorama, Denver, Colorado -- Mount Sneffles [i.e. Sneffels] Range ... -- Pikes Peak from near Colorado City -- Cowboy throwing lariat -- Colorado round up, bunching the herd -- ... A pioneer merchant -- ... A miner's blacksmith -- ... "American Nettie" mine, Ouray -- Ouray and Silverton toll road -- A temperance outfit -- ... Pack team ready for mines -- ... Dug out cabin -- Currecanti [i.e. Curecanti] Needle, Black Canyon ... -- Box Canyon, Ouray...
Dates: between 1898 and 1906?