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Ada E. Bowers Memorial Fountain in the courtyard of the Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, between 1936-1965

Description:
View of the Ada E. Bowers Memorial Fountain in the courtyard of the Bowers Museum, with a statue of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, discoverer of California, and bas-relief scenes behind the statue and along the base of the fountain. To the left of Cabrillo is a rocky formation from which water issues. Behind Cabrillo are 3 scenes including Cabrillo and companions facing Indians on the sea shore with a ship in the ocean in the distance, a mission church, and Indians in a wooden carat (carretta) drawn by oxen. At the base are 8 bas-relief scenes apparently depicting episodes from the mission era and later settlement by ranchers and farmers. A plaque in the center bears the text "Mrs. Bowers Memorial Fountain."
Date:
[between 1936-1965]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Ada E. Bowers Memorial Fountain in the courtyard of the Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, between 1936-1965

Vengeance dive bomber, Downey, circa 1940

Description:
Copy print of a published image with caption that features two test pilots wearing flight suits, helmets, and parachutes strapped to their backs. They speak to a third man in uniform while a bomber plane is being loaded behind them. Caption reads: "Bomber for Britain - Like a wartime scene on an English airdrome is this evening picture of a new Vengeance dive bomber being loaded with practice bombs at Vultee Field as the waiting pilots stand by. This Vultee dive bomber, now in production for Britain, is designed to outperform any known plane of similar type in world."
Date:
[circa 1940]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Vengeance dive bomber, Downey, circa 1940

Clipping regarding planned blitzkrieg of Britain, 1940

Description:
Article titled, "British Blitkrieg Dreamed Years Ago," Evening Outlook, undated. The article discusses a sketch depicting German paratroopers invading an English port. The sketch was originally published in the German magazine, "Ueber Land und Meer" in 1895. An additional sketch illustrates a similar plan of attack devised by Napoleon in 1804 - though his plot involved creating a tunnel under the English channel through which soldiers would march.
Date:
1940
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Clipping regarding planned blitzkrieg of Britain, 1940

Pamphlet advertising "Old Town" in San Diego

Description:
Pamphlet advertising "Old Town" in San Diego with a list of sites to visit, including: The old Plaza and monument where Gen. Fremont first planted the U.S. Flag, the first church and old Mission bells, the first palm tree in California, the old grave yard with crumbling walls and faded wooden head boards, the Serra Cross of tile, Serra Free Museum, first brick house in Southern California, first olive press, and the world famous Ramona's marriage place.
Date:
[between 1920-1965]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Pamphlet advertising "Old Town" in San Diego