Ventura Brewery Advertisement
Breweries
Advertising
Beer
Photo of an advertisement for the Ventura Brewery in the Ventura Signal newspaper. F. Hartman listed as proprietor. Advertisement shows brewery crest and narrative.
Unknown
2004
Museum of Ventura County
1878-11-16
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Black and white photograph
13.6 x 12.5 cm
English
Image
35332
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Santa Paula Hardware Co.
Advertising Cards
Santa Paula--Buildings--Commercial--Santa Paula Hardware Store
An advertising card featuring a color illustration of a woman cleaning dishes at a trough of water. Next to her is a butter churn. Behind the woman is an open window showing a walkway and a house. On the right side of the card is framed text advertising refrigerators and other merchandise. An illustration in the top of the text frame depicts a brown cabinet or refrigerator with open doors. In the upper left corner is a calendar for July 1911.
[Como Co., Chicago]
Como Co.
Museum of Ventura County
1911 July
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Color postcard
15 x 10 cm
English
Image
20178 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Santa Paula (Calif.)
Genoveva Spring At Wheeler's
Health Resorts--Wheeler's Hot Springs
This view depicts four women and a man seated on rocks near a creek. Another man is standing next to them. An advertising message for "Genoveva Cold Mineral Water" appears to have been painted on a flat rock located between the women. Other rocks to the left of the group have words painted on them. There is a small wooden foot bridge spanning the creek, between the viewer and the group.
Caption: "Genoveva Spring At Wheeler's. Ventura, Cal."
[MacGregor, J. J. (Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.)]
MacGregor, J. J.
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Black and white postcard
15 x 10 cm
English
Image
20127 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Wheeler Springs (Calif.)
Ventura County Fairgrounds Racetrack
Racetracks (Automobile racing)
Ventura County Fairgrounds
View of Ventura County fairgrounds racetrack. Image is taken from the bleachers and there is a bulldozer in the middle of the track. Ventura freeway, mountains, and fairground buildings visible in background.
Ketner, V.
1988
Museum of Ventura County
1988 November
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18 x 12.8 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
16038
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
5th and A Street Intersection Looking North toward B Street, Oxnard
Storefronts
C Street (Oxnard, Calif.)
Automobiles
Image taken from the sidewalk intersection on 5th and A streets at left, looking north towards B Street. Various businesses line both sides of the street, Colonia Realty Company visible on the right corner. Billboard advertisements for "Drink Coca-Cola Delicious and ..." and "You Can Do Better at Winemans" visible on sides of buildings. A barber pole is visible at bottom left of image.
Miller, Jack
Jack Miller Collection, 1993
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1930s
Museum of Ventura County. All rights reserved.
Black and white negative
English
Image
26473 NP
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Road Sign Advertising for Oxnard Hotel
Signs and signboards
Hotels
Image of a sign for the Oxnard Hotel taken from the side of a road. Sign reads "Straight Ahead 8 miles Oxnard Hotel 65 Rooms Hot and Cold Water-Private Baths Dining Room A La Carte Service" and in small letters on the left side of the sign "Lyle Engleright Proprietor". Trees visible behind the sign as well as the dirt road at the bottom of the image.
Miller, Jack
Jack Miller Collection, 1993
Museum of Ventura County
No date
Museum of Ventura County. All rights reserved.
Black and white negative
English
Image
26440 NP
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Brewster Portraits Advertising Display
Photography--Studios and dark rooms
Portraits
Advertising
Display of various portraits by John Calvin Brewster portrait studio arranged for the purpose of advertising. Sign in the center of the display reads "Brewster; Max G. Lebo, Operator."
Brewster, John Calvin
Dana Teague Collection, 1987
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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11.7 x 18 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
13499
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Group Photo in Front of A. Gandolfo's Store
Liquor stores
Main Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Figueroa Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Portraits, Group
Grocery stores
Group photo of men and women on the sidewalk under porch in front of A. Gandolfo's Store on Main and Figueroa Streets in Ventura, CA. Sign in front of the store reads "A. Gandolfo Wines, Liquors, Cigars, & Provisions." Brick wall on one side of the building on Figueroa Street advertises "Martell Cognac, AH Holland Gin, Roederer Champagne, J.H. Cutters O.P.S Whiskeys, Imptd. Ale, Beer &..." A horse drawn wagon is on Main Street next to the group of people.
Unknown
1988
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Portrait, Group
18 x 12.5 cm
Sepia photograph
English
Image
14954
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
J. Feraud's Grocery Store
Grocery stores
Supermarkets
Main Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Ventura Avenue (Ventura, Calif.)
Exterior view of J. Feraud's Grocery store on the corner of Main Street and Ventura Avenue in Ventura. It is a brick building with many windows and a large mural on a side wall advertising "Recruit Cigars. Best nickel cigar in the world." Men and children are in front of the building. Building has 1903 etched on it. Other signage on the building reads "Bakery, Gen'l Merchandise, Hay & Wood" and "Groceries, Cigars & Tobacco". Streets in foreground unpaved.
Unknown
1988
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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16.5 x 12.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
14711
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
B & F Café
Restaurants
Businesses
Exterior shot of B & F Café with 2 people in doorway, a man and a woman. Sidewalk in front of café visible as well as some of the adjacent businesses. Advertisements for various products are on the café windows and on the side of the building.
Unknown
Hortense Bauer Collection, 1988
Museum of Ventura County
1920
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18 x 12.7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
14676
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Moorpark (Calif.)
Ventura Airpark
Ventura Airpark
Residential airparks
Ventura (Calif.)--Aerial views
Black and white photograph with writing printed on the photograph. Image is an aerial view of the Ventura Airpark with beach in foreground and mountains in background. Printing reads "Fly with the Flying Red Horse" along with a Pegasus logo, and "Ventura Airpark 'The Private Pilot's Beach Haven'."
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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4605
13 x 15 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
4606
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Tomio Yeto in Doorway of His Store
Yeto, Tomio
Yeto Market
Grocery stores
Japanese Americans
Tomio Yeto stands in the doorway of his store in Saticoy, Yeto Market. The doors to the market are closes except for a small opening where Tomio stands. Tomio smiles at the viewer and wears a white apron. There is an address "1223" above where Tomio stands. Two advertisements are prominent--one for MJB Coffee and one for Royal Crown Cola.
Unknown
Yeto Family Collection, 1985
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1946
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Portrait, Full
20.3 x 25.4 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
28485
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Saticoy (Calif.)
Tomio and Utako Yeto in the Yeto Market, Saticoy
Grocery stores
Yeto market
Yeto, Tomio
Yeto, Utako
Japanese Americans
Interior view of the Yeto Market in Saticoy. A man (Tomio Yeto) and a woman (Utako Yeto) stand inside the store among shelves and racks of groceries. A banner displaying prices hangs across the store. Some words on banner in Spanish. Tomio stands near racks of food and Utako stands behind a counter.
Unknown
Yeto Family Collection, 1995
Museum of Ventura County
Early 1930s
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Portrait, Group
25.4 x 20.3 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Spanish
Image
28484
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Saticoy (Calif.)
Santa Cruz Island Excursions Advertisement
Tourism
Santa Cruz Island (Calif.)
Excursion boats
Advertising
Copy of advertisement for Santa Cruz Island excursions from Eaton's Pelican Bay Camp, Captain and Mrs. Ira K. Eaton, Proprietors. Weekend excursions leaving Stearns Wharf Santa Barbara, charter parties, and camping are advertised. The address is listed as 1121 State Street in Santa Barbara, CA, phone number 5750. Thomas P. Day listed as sole agent for information and reservations. A photograph of a cabin cruiser "Sea Wolf" is in the center of the advertisement.
Unknown
Audrey Ovington Collection, 1990 [17737]
Museum of Ventura County
1929
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Black and White Advertisement
16.5 x 12.5 cm
English
Image
17737
18596
California
Santa Barbara County (Calif.)
Santa Cruz Island (Calif.)
Lee Phillip's Grocery Store and Post Office
Post office buildings
Grocery stores
Portrait of an unidentified man standing on the porch of a small wooden building with a sign that reads "Sespe-Post-Office". There is an advertisement for "Shaw's Soda Water" under the Post Office sign. The man appears to be in some sort of uniform.
Unknown
Fillmore Historical Museum, 1990
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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16.5 x 12.6 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
17442
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Fillmore (Calif.)
Continental Oil Company, San Miguelito Oil Field
Oil fields
Petroleum industry and trade
View of San Miguelito Oil Field, with a Continetal Oil Company sign at the entrance. There is a railroad track in the foreground, oil tanks and equipment visible, and a hillside dotted with oil derricks along in the background. A Conoco motor oil advertisement is visible along fencing around the field. Two images mounted on cardboard.
Unknown
2002
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1950s
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25.8 x 20.4 cm
51 x 40.7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
33870 OS
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
La Mexicana Market Interior
Supermarkets
Sanchez, Carlos
Sanchez, Arnulfo
Sanchez Brothers Mexican Mercantile
Interior view of Sanchez Brothers Mexican Mercantile (which later became La Mexicana Market) with Carlos Sanchez, left, and Arnulfo Sanchez, right, standing in the center of the store. Walls displaying merchandise and counters full of products visible. Signs for Newmark's Coffee visible on back wall.
Unknown
Mary Sanchez Rios Collection, 1999
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1923
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Black and white negative
English
Image
31787 NP
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Fillmore (Calif.)
Ventura Airpark
Ventura Airpark
Residential airparks
Ventura (Calif.)--Aerial views
Black and white photograph with writing printed on the photograph. Image is an aerial view of the Ventura Airpark with beach in foreground and mountains in background. Printing reads "Fly with the Flying Red Horse" along with a Pegasus logo, and "Ventura Airpark an AOPA recommended airport."
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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4606
13 x 15 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
4605
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Corner of Oak and Main Streets, Ventura
Advertising
Photography--Studios and dark rooms
View of advertisement for John Calvin Brewster's photography studio at the corner of Main and Oak Street in Ventura. There are many men gathered around the advertisement which contains sample photographs and is adorned with US flags. Above and to the left of the advertisement, American flags and banners adorn a store window.
Brewster, John Calvin
Museum of Ventura County
1890
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11 x 18.5 cm
Sepia photograph
Black and white photograph
English
Image
3779
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
H. G. Bennison's Blacksmith Shop
Blacksmiths
Storefronts
Main Street (Santa Paula, Calif.)
H. G. Bennison's Blacksmith Shop in Santa Paula in 1911. Two men stand in the open door. Many signs and advertisements Shop located on southwest corner of 10th and Main Streets. Much of Bennison's work was repairing wagons and shoeing horses for oil field workers.
Library's copy is a possible contact print containing 2 photos.
Unknown
1986
Museum of Ventura County
1911
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25.3 x 16.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
12146
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Santa Paula (Calif.)
Lucy Ruiz
Ruiz, Lucy, 1875-1950
Staged full body portrait of Lucy Ruiz in a dark Victorian gown and a hair band made of red, white and blue lightbulbs which lit up. She is also holding a banner which reads 'T Ruiz. Electrical Supplies' with a bouquet of lightbulbs at the top of the banner pole. Lucy Ruiz was the tenth child of Gabriel and Rafaela Cota Ruiz. Born March 2 1875; died November 19 1950 at 75 years of age.
Unknown
Alice Ruiz Collection, 1997
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1890s
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Portrait, Full
Black and white negative
English
Image
30381 NP
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Mission San Buenaventura, 1880s
San Buenaventura Mission
Photocopy of photograph 7639, closeup view of Ventura Mission in 1883-1885. [Library records show discrepancy in date, either 1883 or 1885.] Image shows a bird's eye view of the mission, empty lot on the left of the mission, and advertising signs for seltzer (brand not legible) on the fencing around the empty lot. There is also a plank sidewalk in front of the mission.
Unknown
1880s
7639
Photocopy
23.4 x 18 cm
038 OS
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Simon Cohn General Merchandise Store
General stores
New Jerusalem (Calif.)
Signs and billboards
Outdoor view, photocopy of Simon Cohn's Store-side view. Store was in New Jerusalem-now El Rio. Writing on side of store: "New Jerusalem Simon Cohn, General Merchandise Here Since 1875." "Groceries-Vegetables, Hardware-Tools-Notions-Drugs. Drink Coca-Cola in Sterilized Bottles." Pickup truck parked in front, partial automobile visible also.
Unknown
Gift of: Elaine and Duane Garber, 2010 [38984]
Charles Outland Collection, 2016 [41099]
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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4693
25.3 x 20.3 cm
11.8 x 7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
38984
41099
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
El Rio (Calif.)
A. Ruiz Liquor Store
Liquor stores
Restaurants
Storefronts
Mounted group photograph of "Uncle Arturo's Liquor store" with many people standing along the sidewalk in front of the liquor store that reads "A. Ruiz" on a sign above the door. "Uncle Tomas" drives a horse drawn buggy parked in front of the store. The sign at the top of store advertises "Fine brands of Whiskies for Family and Medical use." The shields on either side of the entry advertise Maier & Zobelien Lager Beer. Next door to the liquor store is the United States Restaurant and advertised meals for 25 cents.
Garden City Photo Co. (San Jose, Calif.)
Alice Ruiz Collection, 1997
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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12 x 19.3 cm
Sepia photograph
English
Image
30448
California
Mrs. Inadomi With Children
Parade floats
Inadomi family
Japanese American families
This image shows Mrs. John K. Inadomi posing with her children Chiyeko and Tazuko Inadomi. They are posing in front of a parade float that was created by the Inadomi Department store for a parade in Fillmore, California.
Unknown
Inadomi Family Collection, 1995
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1930
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Black and white negative
English
Image
28435 NP
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Fillmore (Calif.)