[Photograph album of early Los Angeles]

Resource Information

The work [Photograph album of early Los Angeles] represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Still Image, Visual Materials.

Label

[Photograph album of early Los Angeles]

Creator

• Forbes, A. S. C., Mrs

Contributor

• Graham Photo Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
• Piltzer Mfg. Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Subject

• Santa Monica (Calif.) -- Photographs
• Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs
• Streets -- California | Los Angeles -- Photographs
• Hellman, Irving H, 1883- -- Homes and haunts -- Photographs
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Photographs
• Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs
• La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.) -- Photographs
• Photographic prints
• Photograph albums
• Wilshire's magazine
• Sawtelle Soldiers Home (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs
• Ellis College (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs
• Santa Catalina Island (Calif.) -- Photographs
• Railroad stations -- California | Los Angeles -- Photographs
• Canals -- California | Los Angeles -- Photographs
• Railroad cars -- California | Los Angeles -- Photographs
• Yacht racing -- California | San Diego -- Photographs
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Photographs
• Architecture, Domestic -- California | Los Angeles -- Photographs
• St. Vincent's College (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs
• Mexicans -- California | Los Angeles -- Photographs
• Ebell Club of Long Beach -- Photographs
• Parks -- California | Los Angeles -- Photographs
• Bandini, Arcadia, 1825-1912 -- Photographs
• Fresno County (Calif.) -- Photographs
• Rabbit hunting -- California | Fresno County -- Photographs
• State Normal School, Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Photographs
• Hollenbeck Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs
• Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs
• Church buildings -- California | Los Angeles -- Photographs
• Los Angeles Orphan Asylum (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs
• Severance, Caroline M. Seymour, (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914 -- Homes and haunts -- Photographs
• Trolley cars -- California | Los Angeles -- Photographs
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs

Genre

• Photograph albums
• Photographic prints
• Photographs

Language

eng

Summary

Album belonging to Mrs. A.S.C. Forbes of Los Angeles, containing 87 black & white photographs documenting the early history and development of the city of Los Angeles.

Biographical or historical data

California historian, author, and civic leader.

Cataloging source

CLU

Characteristic

graphic

Runtime

http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/not-applicable

Summary expansion

The photos are copies, printed by the Graham Photo Co. possibly ca. 1920, of historic photographs taken between ca. 1873 and 1919, principally of buildings, homes, churches, schools and colleges, streets, and parks in early Los Angeles. Many of the photos are views of early downtown Los Angeles from Broadway, Grand, Spring, Figueroa, Hope, and Temple Streets, and include automobiles, horse carriages, bicyclists, and trolley cars. Several feature the Post Office, City Hall, and the Van Nuys building. There are also photos of the old YMCA Annex, the railroad station at 5th Street, First Congregational Church at 3rd and Hill, St. Vincent's College (later part of Loyola Marymount University), Ellis College, Los Angeles Orphan Asylum, Sawtelle Veterans Home (formerly Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers), designed by Sanford White, the Times Building, and the Hodau Hotel at First and Spring. Also included are photos of various private residences, such as the homes of reformer and women's club pioneer Mrs. Caroline Severance (founder of the Friday Morning Club of Los Angeles, and in whose honor the Severance Club of Los Angeles was named), Capt. Erskine Cameron Thom (politician, mayor of Los Angeles, and developer of the city of Glendale, California), Los Angeles banker Irving H. Hellman, and California governor John Gately Downey; as well as historic photos of early Californians, such as wealthy Los Angeles landowner Mrs. Arcadia Bandini Stearns Baker, whose second husband, Col. Robert S. Baker, was a co-founder of Santa Monica. Several views document early parks in Los Angeles: East Lake, Central, and Hollenbeck Parks, and there are shots of elegant homes on Chester Place, and bicyclists on unpaved dusty Pico Boulevard and Western Ave. Scenes of surrounding areas include the Chinese cemetery in Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles, the Venice canals, and Ocean Boulevard in Santa Monica, and farther afield, yacht racing in La Jolla, rabbit drives in Fresno County, and the Ebell Club in Long Beach. Mrs. Forbes also included in the album photographs that she may have used in her books on California history and landmarks, with subjects such as the old capital at Monterey where Fremont was elected U.S. Senator; first home of Leland Stanford in California, in Placer; the Governor's Palace in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Mission St. Xavier del Bac in Tucson, Arizona. There are also photos of four paintings related to California history: Commodore Sloat's taking possession of California at Monterey, July 7, 1846; raising of the American flag at Sutter's Fort, July 11, 1846; and views of Rancho de la Laguna; and San Luis Obispo County. Laid in is one photo, dated May 1906, of the printing offices of Wilshire's magazine, a well-known socialist journal founded by millionaire socialist Gaylord Wilshire

Technique

not applicable