Genre: drawings (visual works) / Location: California--Santa Monica - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The Ysidro Reyes adobe was built on the Rancho Boca de Santa Monica, a Mexican land grant owned by Ysidro Reyes (1813-1861) and Francisco Marquez (1798-1850).
Date:: 1890s
1939
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Photograph of a political cartoon drawn by Adelbert Bartlett. At center, bundles of laundry sit on shelves with “Will Call” printed above. To the left, a spinning vortex (perhaps a washing machine) appears to create soap suds. Machines sit just to the left in the background. The image is surrounded by text. Text reads: “-Mat’n –Ett. Sudsy Monkey Business. Montana Avenue Laundries. ‘You Bring – We Do’ – Commercial – They Violate Self-Service Permit. Must We Submit to Spot Favors, ‘See Me’ Zoning, Downgraded Home Values? ...Montana (Laundry) Avenue. Today’s Road of Out-Zone Laundries- Animal Breeders – Heavy Machine Shop – Heavy Auto Repairs – Home Owners: Protest to Your City Council – Press – Growing Industrial Invasion & Ruin Home Areas.”
Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This image is a rephotograph of a sketch of a piano. It is an ornate antique piano, with ornamental carvwood relief on the body and legs. In the bottom right hand corner of the image is a dated signature which reads "David Thomas /'49".
Date:: [between 1949 and 1953]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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