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Description:: View down Pine Avenue facing north from First Street. Pine Avenue pedestrians cross First Street and cars line the street. Legible signs include: " C. C Lewis Jewelry," "Hotel," "Kress...Store," and "Bank of Italy"
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Marker has a relief image of De Anza and his men on horseback looking at mountains in the distance. The caption on the monument below the relief reads "On March 16, 1774, Juan Bautista De Anza, Indian fighter, explorer, and colonizer, led through this pass (named by him San Carlos) the first white explorers to cross the mountains into California. The party traveled from Tubac, Arizona, to Monterey, California. On December 27, 1775, on a second expedition into California, Anza led through this pass the party of Spaniards from Sonora who became the founders of San Francisco. Tablet placed by Historic Landmarks Committee, Native Sons of the Golden West. 1924".
Date:: 1937
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 "THE ALTAR OF THE SACRED JADE PAGODA--A glorious, priceless masterpiece. 'Tis not a replica but an ideal combination of the most outstanding features of Chinese architecture. For 10 years 150 craftsmen labored to create it from a mother gem weighing 9 tons. Seven stories high its designing exceeds that of old filigree. Most luxurious spectacle in the world of jade."
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Composite photograph. Top: intricate perfume bottle made of jade, hand carved.Bottom: Nine large and ten small jade carvings on a shelf in front of a curtain.
Date:: 1950
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 "JEWEL JADE "YANG TAI CHEN'--History's beauty queen. Her loveliness made roses seem ugly, snow seem grey. With her parrot, symbol of her piteous fate, she is now found immortalized in perfect jade."
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: John Lindsay, a southern California architect, was involved in the renovation of the Windemere Hotel in 1955.
Date:: 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Press release describing cave and carvings discovered by Boy Scouts in the Sawtelle area of Los Angeles
Date:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Page from a booklet advertisement for the Sunday Players radio program. Actors Victoria Vola and John Prince are featured in costume as Mary Magdalene and Moses, respectively. The Sunday Players originated in Colorado Springs before their program garnered national attention and received a three-year contract from Merten's and Price, Inc., of Los Angeles.
Date:: [circa 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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