A photograph album with scenes of Los Angeles

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

A photograph album with scenes of Los Angeles

Entry/Object ID

2015.595.1.1

Description

A photograph album with scenes of Los Angeles, ca 1910. The album includes scenes of a lake, boats, parks, bridges, street excavation and construction, power lines, children, boy dressed as an American Indian, adults in front of a residence, grocery store, store display of hosiery, hiking, beach and swimming at Venice Beach, cracking walnuts and home activities, fishing at Santa Monica pier, cooking on a Franklin stove, cattle husbandry, snow scenes, San Antonio Canyon, Mt. Baldy, boiler room of a sugar factory in Chino, engine room at an oil refinery, a US battleship deck, sailors on shore leave, train, horse riding. The album is mostly filled with photos on front and back of pages, a few blank pages towards the end. The album has a hard cover with screw post binding, covered in a brownish red cloth with black album pages. The album is generally in good condition with abrasion to the cover corners.

Lexicon

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Object Name

Photograph albums