A series of three images showing a Union Pacific train at the "continuous rail" crossing in South Gate. The image on the left shows a crowd of onlookers at the South Gate station, watching as a train pulls in. The center image shows a crowd of...
Upper image is of a man on a barrel electioneering and voters lined up to pass a ballot box in the doorway of a building. There are many speech bubbles coming from various figures in the image commenting on the election. Lower image is of two men...
The upper image on what Baird identifies as p.1 is an illustration of Judge Terry stabbing Hopkins on Jackson street. The lower image on p.1 depicts mounted men with sabres surrounding the Armory at the corner of Montgomery and Washington Streets....
Upper image is of the view of Yerba Buena harbor from the south with the town at the left. There is heavy vegetation in the foreground, and several ships can be seen in the harbor. To the right of this illustration is a map of the "Vicinity of San...
One bound set of engravings, untitled, unsigned, and undated (ca. 1780?). It is comprised of eight leaves of original engravings. The images are all portraits, some are single figures and others are multiple faces. The first is of a nude woman, and...
A collection of six (6) Reward of Merit cards, each with Reward of Merit printed on them, and each with a chromolithograph image. The cards range in date from 1859 to 1883. These cards were presented to students by their teachers for performance (...
"Ligne Cunard"--text in white block lettering, lower right corner of the image. "K.D. Shoesmith"--artist's signature reproduced in image, lower right. "Mauretania a'Cherbourg / private collection / Ref. no. 23-2039"--text, center of margin, below...
Title is below the image. Title and an image are framed by a heavy black border. "Sitmar Line"--text below title, large block type, crown logo of Sitmar on left side. "Edizione Sitmar, Stampa 8500 -XII-1928-VII"--text below image, in the margin,...
Image is pasted to a board with a stand; could be used as advertisement in a travel agency. "S.S. Lurline Matson to Hawaii"--below the image in the lower right corner. This image depicts the Lurline as she was after her wartime service as a...
Upper image is of a fort with gunnybags in front of it and cannons and guards on the roof. There is a view of the street with ships in the background of the image. Lower image is of a square filled with people. To the left is a building with...
Image is of miners engaged in various activities: fighting, horse racing, drinking, reading, writing, and washing clothes. "Published at the Wide West Office. Anthony & Baker."--text, below image. "C. Nahl."--text, within image, lower left. "Noisy...
Upper image is of Chinese miners at their camp beside a river with tents and work going on in the background. To the left are men eating rice with chopsticks, and to the right are men having their hair cut and their queues plaited. Lower image is...
Image is of four vessels in the harbor with lofty mountains in the background. The four ships in the water, from left to right as designated by the text below the image, are: Virago (a sidewheeler), La Forte ( a man of war), L'Obligado (a...
Page 1 of the image depicts a miner to the left of a tree with the letter sheet title repeated on a sign. The miner is saying: "Wonder which of these onlikely roads nears off tu Hangtown? Helloa! A guide-board, sartin." A bear is going off at the...
Image depicts miners engaged in various types of mining: panning for gold, using a long tom, sluicing, using a well, and wheeling an ore cart out of a mine entrance. Baird notes that this image is related to "River Mining" in its format and...
Image of town buildings, the harbor with several ships in it to the left, the hills in the background, and several tents and small figures in the foreground. Buildings and places of particular interest are numbered in the image, and these numbers...
Two photographs: Top image: arrival of first 'Big Red Car' in Monrovia, CA, 1903. Bottom: Sierra Madre Red Line station on Baldwin Avenue, Sierra Madre, CA, 1906. The top image shows the first of Pacific Electric Railway's red trolley car...
A composite image of the Tahoe Tavern and Lake Tahoe. The image of Tahoe Tavern, on the right, shows the large, rustic building surrounded by pines. The image of Lake Tahoe, on the left, shows the lake from a hilly vantage with snow-covered...
Street view of the building at 303 East Colorado, on the northeast corner of Garfield and Colorado. The building seems to have served primarily as a bank. Six half columns/pilasters adorn the side of the building facing Colorado. The negative is...