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The California Citrus Box Labels, a subset within the Jay T. Last Collection of Food, contains more than 1000 lithographed labels that relate to the California citrus industry in the United States from 1880 to 1960, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1910 through 1930. The collection consists largely of lithographed labels produced for Southern Californian growers, packers and distributors to identify brand names and packing locations on wooden crates of oranges, lemons and grapefruits. The majority of labels were printed by Los Angeles and San Francisco lithographers, such as the Western Lithograph Company and the Schmidt Lithograph Company

An album of 70 mounted photographs and 19 loose photographs depicting ranching and agricultural activities at Titus Ranch, San Gabriel Valley, California in the early 20th century. The ranch was named for Luther H. Titus (1822-1900), who bought the property in San Gabriel and what is now San Marino in the late 19th century; it was primarily devoted to citrus orchards and the breeding of fine horses. The album appears to have been compiled by someone closely affiliated with the ranch, as there are many handwritten identifications, and an image of men on horses is captioned “Our cowboys.” A series of 8 x 10-inch photographs depict overviews of the ranch buildings over time, from 1890 to 1914. The bulk of the album depicts people and activities on the ranch between 1911 and 1915, including: plowing fields with teams of horses and also with farm machinery; farmworkers and crops; livestock; stables and portraits of horses; young men in suits posed with cars on the ranch; cowboys ...

Similar to the main collection, this addenda consists of mainly letters and questionnaires written between 1905-1908 on the topic of mid-19th-century Los Angeles. Most of the questionnaires, composed by Mary A. Forman, include a correspondent's answers, and most of the letters were written to Forman in response to her questionnaire or other inquiries

The volumes begin with the Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws for the San Gabriel Valley Land and Water Company. Following are the meeting minutes of the company from 1888 to 1893. The first volume (HM 73896) covers 1887 to March 1890. The second volume (HM 73897) covers March 1890 to 1893. There is an issue of the "Orange Trade Reporter," Vol. 3, No. 18 (1897, April 28) in the second volume

HM 79258 - Mimeographed map: "Mission San Gabriel ... showing the irregular Tracts of cultivated Land within Section 11 ..." (1870, May). Surveyed by H.M. Johnston (71 x 55 cm.).

Photographs created from mammoth plate negatives primarily by photographers Carleton E. Watkins and William Henry Jackson of various locations in the American West, primarily in the states of California, Colorado, and Oregon, as well as Arizona, Montana, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming Territories, ca. 1874-1898

Two photograph albums with 281 photographs that document the activities of Mary Shizuko Mitsueda Muranishi and her immediate family and friends in California during her adolescence from 1933-1938 and as a young adult, approximately 1955-1960

The J. Allen Hawkins Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 3027 negatives and 3607 prints (both vintage prints and copy prints), 1924-1972, that depict commercial sites, residences, and other subjects in and around Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California. The images provide a look at the commercial, residential, social, and cultural development of Pasadena and surrounding areas during the middle years of the twentieth century. The collection also provides, through its breadth and depth of subject matter, an example of the career activities of a commercial photographer in Southern California in the early years of the twentieth century. Some of the early photographs may be attributable to Harold A. Parker

This bound photograph album contains amateur snapshots depicting life in Southern California in the late 1890s. The compiler appears to have been a schoolteacher, and there are several views of school houses (the Los Angeles Normal School and the Lamanda Park schoolhouse), shots of the interior of an elementary school classroom and class, and outings with schoolchildren. There are also images of Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations, camping in the local mountains (including the Echo Mountain trolley), and at the beaches and various cities such as downtown Los Angeles, Pasadena, Redondo, San Gabriel, Lamanda Park, and Catalina. There is a series of views depicting Redondo, California, including beach cottages, the local casino, tent camping, and Biona [Ballona?] Bay. There are also two images depicting a Chinese vegetable seller and butcher with their delivery wagons. The first part of the album contains handwritten captions

This manuscript is a permarital investigation of José Farias, 32, and Maria Cesaria Manriquez, 14. Prenuptial investigations were conducted by Catholic Church authorities to ensure that both parties were free to be married legally. In it, both parties state that they are able to get married. It is signed by several witnesses including José Maria Pico, the father of Pio Pico. The manuscript is signed by Friar Joaquin Pasqual Nuez. The manuscript may be incomplete