Subject Topic: Coach drivers - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
Date:: [between 1870 and 1906?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Description:: African American coachman wearing a tall hat in the driver's seat of a transport buggy hitched to two horses, with a woman passenger seated behind him. A white man, woman and two children stand on the right, with a well-dressed African American woman seated in front of them. The scene is on a narrow, brick-paved lane between two buildings. The building on the right looks like a coach house.
Date:: [1880-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: George Monroe (seated on the left) driving about seven passengers in a coach. The coach is on a dirt road in a wooded setting in front of a small, wooden church.
Date:: [circa 1870-1886]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Coach with the first pair of horses visible, driven by Gus Thompson, riding over railroad tracks in a town with two buildings and a cart visible in the background. Thompson has his hand raised to his hat.
Date:: [circa 1870-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: The women are identified as Miss Laing, Miss H. Laing, Miss Jessie McCamment, Mrs. Thomas French, Miss Grace Veder, Miss Pauline Miller, Miss Marjorie Ward, Mlle. Chevaleau, Miss Rosamond Porter, Miss Cobb and Mrs. Southard. ("Floral riches run riot: Gardens give of loveliest for grand display ...," Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 1908: 112)
Date:: January 01, 1908
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Parade with an African American coach driver dressed in a white suit and top hat driving a floral, horse-drawn carriage. Four white women in white dresses and sun bonnets ride along. There is a multi-story commercial building in the background which may be a storefront church with signs reading "Godless [...]," "Behold he Come [...] Jesus / [Every] eye shall see [...] also which pierce." The partial face of a horse to the left.
Date:: [1890-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: George Monroe rode a stagecoach between Merced and Mariposa and became a renowned stage driver. He drove three United States presidents into Yosemite, Ulysses S. Grant, James A. Garfield and Rutherford B. Hayes, as well as Gen. William T. Sherman. Monroe Meadows in Yosemite is named after him.
Date:: 1886
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: La Fiesta de Los Angeles was an annual multi-day event celebrating Los Angeles and Southern California's cultural heritage. The first celebration was held in April 1894. Canceled during the Spanish-American War, it was revived in 1901 under the new name La Fiesta de las Flores, and it continued through the 1940s.
Date:: 1909
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Studio portrait photograph of George Monroe, stagecoach driver, in a suit jacket, vest and shirt.
Date:: [circa 1870-1886]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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