Historical Society of Southern California Collection of Lantern Slides 1870s-1932

Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946

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Charles C. Pierce migrated to Southern California in 1886 and began his photographic career in Los Angeles. In addition to establishing a studio and selling photographic supplies, Pierce also amassed a vast picture library over the course of three decades. Pierce acquired the negatives and prints of other regional photographers, eradicated their signatures from the prints, stamped his name on the verso of the image, and organized the lot into subject files. Some of the photographers from whom he...

Meyberg, Max, 1850-1934

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La Fiesta de Los Angeles—Photographs.

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Los Angeles High School—Photographs.

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Penney and Bennett.

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Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914

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Caroline Maria Seymour Severance, suffragist, reformer, and social activist, was born in Canadaigua, New York, in January 1820. In 1840 she married Theodoric Severance. The Severances first lived in Cleveland, Ohio, but moved to Boston in 1855. In 1868, Caroline Severance founded the New England Women's Club, the first women's club in the United States earning her the name "Mother of Clubs." The Severances moved to Los Angeles in 1875 where she continued her various reform work including Unitari...

Granicher, O.

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Los Angeles Camera Club—Photographs.

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Maude, F. H. (Frederic Hamer)

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The photographer, F.H. Maude, had his business in Los Angeles. From the description of New Mexico : glass slides, ca. 1880-1910. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553556 ...

Los Angeles (Calif.). City Council—Photographs.

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Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

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Watkins was a pioneer California photographer, most well known for his large-format photographs. From the description of Views of Thurlow Lodge by Carleton Watkins: photograph album, circa 1874. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510599 An American landscape photographer, Carleton E. Watkins was noted for his views of the Pacific Northwest and Yosemite. From the description of Carleton E. Watkins Collection. [1879]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); ...

Valentine, C. C.

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Childs, O. W., Mrs., -1935

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Dockweiler, Isidore B. (Isidore Bernard), 1867-1947

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Biography / Administrative History The Dockweiler family story has been closely intertwined with the course of Los Angeles and consequently California history. The great Gold Rush was instrumental in bringing the first Dockweiler to Los Angeles, Henry Dockweiler (1824-1887), who settled here by 1852 after trying, apparently without success, his hand in the gold fields of northern California. Part of the American story of immigration, Henry an...

Friday Morning Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)—Photographs.

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Frisbie, William M.

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Blanchard, James B.

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