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Back end of lot, W.H. Fletcher house, Los Angeles

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    W. H. Fletcher's ranch, San Fernando Valley

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    View of a small wooden shack, young trees and two young men lounging in front, with open land all around them. The boys are possibly members of photographer William H. Fletcher's family. Fletcher also had a residence on Calumet Avenue in Los Angeles (see related item).

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    Photographs of Los Angeles and Vicinity by W.H. Fletcher

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    This collection of William H. Fletcher commercial card photographs focus mainly on Los Angeles, California, during a period of industrial expansion and population growth in the late 1800s. The images depict various views around Los Angeles, which include Los Angeles Street and some of its intersections, the Main and Spring Streets junction, Old Chinatown, the College of Medicine at University of Southern California (in its second incarnation on Buena Vista Street, now North Broadway), Llewellyn Iron Works, Elysian Park, the Hollenbeck Home for retirees, and what may be William H. Fletcher's residence (see item 6). Also included are photographs of Colorado Boulevard, Fair Oaks Avenue, and Devil's Gate in Pasadena; the Los Angeles River; the Hotel Arcadia in Santa Monica; the Point Fermin Lighthouse in San Pedro; Ventura; Redondo Beach; and the California missions San Luis Rey, San Juan Capistrano, and San Fernando Rey.

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    The Los Angeles Aqueduct

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    Album of photographic snapshots of an automobile trip taken by J. G. Oliver and W. H. Frick from Los Angeles to the Owens Valley, California. A typewritten text describes the 260 mile trip following the route of the aqueduct and depicts the landscape of Owens Valley, Owens Lake, and the reservoirs, conduits, concrete canals, siphons, and power plants bringing water to Los Angeles. The trip ends at 1837 Canyon Drive with a photograph of a woman watering her lawn. The 1915 Los Angeles City Directory, lists 1837 Canyon Drive as the residence of Julius G. Oliver. His friend, William H. Frick, a salesman at the Cass-Smurr-Damerell Company, lived nearby at 4534 Kingswell. 1837 Canyon was later demolished.

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    City directory of surveyors of Los Angeles

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    This manuscript is a directory of surveyors based in Los Angeles from 1849-1900. Some of the prominent names listed in this directory include: Fremont Ackerman, Isidore Dockweiler, Fred Eaton, George Hansen, S. B. Reeve, and Alfred Solano.

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  • North San Pedro Street, Los Angeles

    North San Pedro Street, Los Angeles

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    View looking down North San Pedro Street (previously Wilmington Street until ca. 1902) from near the intersection of First Street in Los Angeles, California. On the right are signs for "Neil Finkelstein, Junk Dealer" (listed at 114 N. San Pedro Street in the 1905 Los Angeles City Directory), Larson's House (May C. Larson was listed under furnished rooms at 124 N. San Pedro in the 1902 directory), and "Fruits and Groceries." A building on the left has a sign that says "Wilmington House" (a boarding house at 125 North San Pedro in the 1902 directory).

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    Spring St. near Main, Los Angeles

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