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This is special to me because my mother, Nancy Robertson Brandt, had the dream of a family journey
to recreate a trip her mother made in 1913. These are the children of Evelyn(Flanders) Akin Robertson.
Ralph E.…

Color illustration postcard of a citrus packing label with an airship with the word airship written in large, red, block letters at the top of the postcard. An orange wrapped in paper with "Sunkist" written on it is in the lower left corner. Next to…

Color photograph postcard of Little Chim at Jungleland, a wild animal theme park in Thousand Oaks, CA. Little Chim is sitting in a field, on an overturned bucket and wearing two broken drums while sitting.
[Mirro-Krome by R.S. Crocker Co.,Inc. Los…

Jo and James Madison with Five Jungleland Elephants, Jungleland, Thousand Oaks. Jo is dressed in a blue-sequined costume with a feather headpiece. She is standing on the leg of an elephant and holding on to its studded harness. There are two other…

View of the Ventura River.

San Buenaventura Mission exterior showing front and west
side.

Map of drainage plan for Baldwin Road near Burnham Road, Ojai. Shows drainage lines overlaid with topographic map of area around Baldwin Road near Burnham Road. Area bordered by Tract number 3209-1. Separate figure shows drainage detail and existing…

Image showing the St. Francis Dam after the dam broke. A car is on the bottom left of the image, and a small tent/camp is at the bottom right of the image. Library records indicate photo was found at Blanchard estate in Terra Bella, CA.

Kodak color photo of Pierpont - 1950, looking down Seaward Avenue from bluff. Note Seaward curving bluff as you went over railroad tracks. Note hangar for airstrip on north side of Pierpont Blvd.

Rancho San Miguel portion of subdivision 14
[Notes: L - 4, Automobile Club of Southern California, Map of Ventura County, ©2003]

View of lake with trees reflected on the lake. Caption on left bottom of postcard: "Ferndale Lake, Santa Paula, Cal."
[Newman Post Card Co., Los Angeles, Cal., made in Germany; Harding, photographer]

Two flood scenes showing the destruction after the St. Francis Dam disaster of March 1928.

First image possibly taken near Isbell School showing buildings and trees that are still standing, but debris and some fallen trees or bushes and water in…

Beets being loaded into beet sheds at the American Beet Sugar Factory in Oxnard. A child looks on at the group of men working There are several sheds and pulleys on overhead rafters over the sheds.

Panoramic shot of baseball field with players on it, and stadium seating on both ends of photograph. Stadium seats appear filled to capacity. Cars are parked in the background, behind the field. Game is New York Giants versus the Chicago White Sox,…

View of centrifugal machines at the Oxnard Sugar factory on the left of the image and a walkway in front of them on the right of the image.

Nordhoff and vicinity : Ojai
[Notes: Badly torn portion of a larger map; H - 4, Automobile Club of Southern California, Map of Ventura County, ©2003]

Saticoy and vicinity
[Notes: L - 5, Automobile Club of Southern California, Map of Ventura County, ©2003]

Santa Paula, Calif.
[Notes: K - 6, Automobile Club of Southern California, Map of Ventura County, ©2003]

Montalvo and vicinity, Santa Paula and vicinity
[Notes: Two drawings on one sheet, left side, Montalvo & vicinity, 1 in. to 5 chains; Right side, Santa Paula & vicinity, 1 in. to 10 chains; L - 4, Automobile Club of Southern California, Map of…

Dawn Dyer, a CA Delegate to the Vision 2020 National Women's Equality Coalition, encourages women to honor the sacrifices of the suffragists by voting.

Dawn Dyer explains that she votes to support our Democracy.

Bust portrait of an unidentified man with a mustache and beard, looking to the right of camera--"Compliments of Stephen Bowers, Sta. Barbara, CA. 25 June 1879. Phtg. Hayward & Muzzall. Photographic Artists. Cook's Bldq. State St. Sta.Barbara, CA -…

Bird's-eye view of the Ventura Pier and outlying buildings in flames. Thick smoke obscures most of the structures. Firefighters on the beach spray water upwards at the fire. Crowd of onlookers in foreground. Photograph originally published in the…

Plat showing land at Interurban Land Company Pumping Plant
[Notes: Sections 6 & 7 of T3N - R20N, E of Santa Paula, Calif; K - 6, Automobile Club of Southern California, Map of Ventura County, ©2003]

Father Serra statue in front of Ventura City Hall, at California and Poli Streets. Photo is taken from the right hand side of the statue from ground, looking up toward his face. City Hall, formerly the Courthouse, is in the background, and there…