Subject: Environment / Language: English / Resource Type: still image / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The tall bloom of a century plant (or agave plant) in the front yard of a house on Pico Street in Los Angeles, possibly near Figueroa.
Date:: [between 1898 and 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Oldest date palm in the city of Los Angeles on Date Street. Residence of J. J. Rodriguez. The ivy-covered palm tree towers over nearby trees and shrubs. Other dwellings and their back yards are visible.
Date:: [1888]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of the Roosevelt Highway, which was the name given to California State Route 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) as it runs along the coast of the Pacific Ocean in the Santa Monica Bay.
Date:: [between 1915 and 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Two old palms on San Pedro Street, with an old well between them, on the property of Sheriff Hummel. A house is visible in the background and the shadow of another building is in the right foreground.
Date:: [circa 1885]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Grocery store or general store and gas station in mountain or rural location in a clearing surrounded by tall trees. The building is constructed of wood with a tree trunk and logs incorporated into the structure. There is a shaded porch on the left, and several barrels with spigots next to the porch. A car and man in a white shirt are at the gas station, a covered parking area on the right side of the building. A United States flag on a tall pole is in front of the store. Legible signs include: "Groceries," "Cold drinks," "Gas 23 c [cents]," and a very faded sign reading "Auto / Shell [with Shell Company symbol]."
Date:: [circa 1915-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: The inn was located at the intersection of the Pacific Coast Highway and Las Flores Canyon Road, just east of the guarded Rindge Ranch fence (which prevented westward development beyond Las Flores Canyon Road at this time).
Date:: 1915
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Photograph of ruins of Santa Margarita de Cortona Asistencia, in Santa Margarita near San Louis Obispo. A wooden rail fence is on the right. The six people in front of the ruin include Mrs. Clendenen, Rev. Frederick A. Field, his wife Clara and daughter Bessie. The ground is overgrown with scrub brush.
Date:: [circa 1888-1889]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Clendenen
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Southern exterior view of the Sorrento Beach Club against the Palisades cliffs, facing northwest from Pacific Coast Highway. A restaurant, other buildings and cars are visible on the highway. The restaurant bares a sign reading "Ne--'s Grill".
Date:: May 29, 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Photograph is page from book, caption from photograph reads "JADE 'PAILOU'--Imperial 'pailou', white-grenn throughout, ingenious in architecture and hollow to permit interior lighting the Pailou is a memorial gate fronting the famous Altar of the Sacred Jade Pagoda"
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This building was designed by John Lindsay, as made evident by one of the signs on the building. John Lindsay was a southern California architect. Lindsay was associated with at least two the firms: Palmer, Krisel & Lindsay, A.I.A. for a brief time around 1952; and John C. Lindsay and Associates.
Date:: [circa 1951-1957]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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