Family photograph albums with scenes from Illinois, Maine, Nebraska, California, and New Mexico

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  Colonel Charles Cotesworth Thomas family album with scenes of Southern California

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  A family album with 53 photographs showing the family of mining superintendent Colonel Charles Cotesworth Thomas and his wife, Mary Sue Thomas, in Southern California. The images, chiefly cyanotypes, show the family camping, swimming, fishing, hunting, sailing, and in humorous poses primarily on Santa Catalina Island. The album pages have been decorated with hand-drawn black ink illustrations that fit the subject of the photographs. These elements may be the work of artist Annie Loring Bancroft, daughter or stepdaughter of Col. Thomas. Identified family members include the Thomas children: Francis J. Thomas, Chester Thomas, and Bancroft. Pasted at the back of the album are larger prints of the Redondo Hotel in Redondo Beach; two images of a young child with kittens captioned "Flash light" presumably taken with flash photography; a group portrait of Bancroft with friends on the lawn in front of the "Casa Figueroa" house at the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Figueroa Street; an elevated view of Santa Monica Canyon showing Grimminger's Pavilion; and two photographs taken in Japan, one at a tomb in Nikko.

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  Album of photographs recording a motorcar journey from Nebraska to central California in 1913

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  Fascinating photographic record of an early road trip from Nebraska through Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and into California. A typed slip affixed to the front pastedown reads "'A fine trip with many hard knocks,' From Wausa, Nebr. to Turlock, Cal." There were four vehicles in the caravan, traversing unpaved tracks through the largely undeveloped Southwest, an uncommon feat at the time. The photographs include views of Starvation Peak, N.M.; a New Mexican Village; Springerville, Arizona with the Reagan Hotel; camp near Ft. Apache, Arizona; am automobile "hospital" at Dome City, Arizona; the Roosevelt Dam; a camp near San Diego, Cal.; etc.

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  [Photograph album of scenes in Mexico]

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  Photograph album with various snapshots chiefly documenting a trip to Mexico by Los Angeles, California, resident Charles A. Finlayson around 1930, including images of buildings and streets in Mexico City, a visit to a park with deer, buildings under construction, the canals of Xochimilco, and Aztec ruins at Teotihuacan, as well as images, presumably, of Finlayson. Throughout the album, there are also images of the derailment of a locomotive and train cars, presumably of the National Railroad of Mexico, which were carrying military cannons, with photographs of executed men who had been hanged from utility poles along the tracks.

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  Items 708-713: Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, and California

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  This collection contains photographs by historian Ralph P. Bieber documenting the central overland route to California as it appeared in the 1950s. Bieber visited the sites in conjunction with a project to record every aspect of the trails and circumstances associated with the migration of people to California during the Gold Rush years and subsequently. The images document the route through Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and California. Bieber organized and annotated the photographs himself, and his original order, based primarily on print size, has been maintained. Additionally, Bieber created photographic categories such as "Donner Party Sites," "Gold Discovery Sites," and "Sites associated with John C. Frémont." Note that Bieber did not arrange the photographs geographically.

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  Nebraska; Nevada; New Mexico

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  Portraits in Nebraska include: a man holding a cat; workers with tools (possibly plumbers); girls with large hoops; soldiers. Nevada portraits include: a soldier with sword; two boys with two sheep.

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  Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Henry Family photograph album

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  The album, one of three depicting the Henry Family of Los Angeles, California, contains 403 snapshots, presumably compiled by Alexander Ellwood Henry (1890-1979) and primarily consisting of group portraits of the Henry family and unidentified individuals between 1907 and 1916. The photographs reflect trips and outings to a variety of locations in California (Santa Catalina Island, Pasadena, Venice, Los Angeles, Big Bear, Yosemite, San Francisco), as well as Niagara Falls, Canada, Europe, and Japan. There are many images of Henry and his friends as teenagers and young adults. Among the images are photographs of Henry's brother Thomas Cecil Henry (died 1910) as a student at Stanford around 1908-1910, the Henry home at 1400 S. Manhattan Place in Los Angeles, and individuals at the beach.

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