Exterior view of the Tulare substation with four operators standing in the doorway next to the "Danger; Keep Out" sign, November 24, 1904. There is a bicycle in the next doorway.
Roy Arnold Anderson (1920-2003) was born on 15 December 1920 in Ripon, California. He was one of six children born to Carl Gustav Anderson and Esther Marie Johnson, Swedish immigrants. Anderson enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II...
Ruth St. Denis (born Ruth Dennis) was born in 1879 in New Jersey. She began dancing as a child. Her early training included Delsarte technique, ballet lessons with the Italian ballerina Maria Bonfante, social dance forms and skirt dancing. She...
Joseph Rickard was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 17, 1918. He moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s to study ballet with Bronislava and Irina Nijinska but his real gifts lay in teaching (especially adults) and choreography. In 1946, he...
William Brydges (1681-1764) of Tibberton (or Tyberton) in Herefordshire and London, landowner and lawyer, was the son of Francis Brydges of Castle Street, Hereford (d. 1727) and a cousin of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (1673-1744). He was...
Lydia Catherine Van Hattem Davall Brydges, Duchess of Chandos (1693-1750), was the daughter of John Vanhattem, an Anglo-Dutch merchant. Her first marriage was to Thomas Davall (1682-1714), a London merchant and M.P. for Harwich, who was also her...
Frances Johnston, born 1864, was a photographer whose career spanned six decades and covered a vast array of topics. She is commonly considered the first female photojournalist and was also a charter member of the Photo-Secession. She was a...
The Mark Taper Forum opened in Los Angeles in 1967 and is known for its development of new plays and voices for the theatre. Located at the Performing Arts Center (formerly The Music Center) in downtown Los Angeles, the Taper has received virtually...
Astronomers on Mount Wilson (Left to Right): Hills; Herbert Hall Turner; Arthur Schuster; and George Ellery Hale. Photo is mounted in an album. The four men are all standing in a clearing, next to a large rock. Just the legs of an unidentified...
Lower section of the 100-inch telescope tube, on a truck, with a crowd, at Mount Wilson Observatory. The tube and truck are parked next to the 100-inch telescope observatory building; an open door in the side of the building is seen behind the...
100-inch telescope mirror at Mount Wilson Observatory, being unloaded from a truck. A group of men surround the truck and mirror, all of whom are wearing hats. One unidentified men is standing next to the mirror in the truck, removing the...
Mr. Dietz looking at a plate on a measuring machine in Charles St. John's office while St. John stands next to him. Both men are wearing suits. Books line the wall behind the men. The measuring machine rests on a desk.
Mr. Dalton and F.G. Pease standing next to the hoisting device holding the 100-inch telescope mirror, Mount Wilson Observatory. F.G. Pease stands at the far right, wearing s suit, coat and hat. Mr. Dalton leans over the mirror, and is wearing denim...
Mechanic standing next to the south float and pedestal of the 100-inch telescope during its renovation, Mount Wilson Observatory. The unidentified mechanic is wearing coveralls and a hat.
Elizabeth Connor, posed next to a portrait of George Ellery Hale, inside the Mount Wilson Observatory Library, Pasadena. Books line the walls behind her. Connor was the Library's librarian from 1916 until her retirement in May 1950.