Fourth of July Livingston Family Picnic
Fourth of July celebrations
Picnics
View of a group sitting around a picnic table in Grant's Pass, Oregon. Two men sitting on the left of the table look at the camera. Other picnickers are facing towards the center of the table. The picnic is shaded by a large tree. In background are parked cars and trees.
Miller, Jack
Jack Miller Collection, 2002
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1940
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34209
Black and white photograph
10.1 x 7.8 cm
English
Image
34210
Fourth of July Livingston Family Picnic
Picnics
Fourth of July celebrations
Picture taken in Grant's Pass, Oregon. View of a crowd seated around a picnic table. Most of the people shown are facing away the camera. One young girl is looking over her shoulder towards the camera. At the end of the picnic table there are three women sitting in chairs arranged next to the picnic benches. The background of the image shows a log cabin and the stairs that lead up to one of its entrances.
Miller, Jack
Jack Miller Collection, 2002
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1940
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34210
Black and white photograph
10.1 x 7.8 cm
English
Image
34209
Cannon Firing on May Day, Fillmore
Artillery
Fillmore (Calif.)--Social life and customs
Harthorn, Leon
View of a crowd standing around a cannon on May Day. The cannon is pointed towards the right of the image. Leon Harthorn is lighting the fuse of the cannon. Harthorn is wearing a top hat and dark suit. Vehicles and palm trees visible in background.
Museum records indicate that the cannon is a captured German cannon. Lighting the cannon during the May Day celebration was Fillmore tradition.
Unknown
Edith Moore Jarrett Collection, 1983
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Black and white photograph
12.5 x 18 cm
English
Image
9690
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Fillmore (Calif.)
Ventura Street Fair Parade, 1900
Parade floats
Fairs
Parades--California--Ventura
Parade scene on Main Street in Ventura during the Ventura Street Fair, 1900. Storefronts and tents for fair vendors are visible behind large crowd watching the procession. Parade float passing crowd is pulled by two white horses. Six men dressed in white suits walk along the sides of the float. A woman dressed in a costume stands on the float.
Park & Rogers
Drapeau Family Collection, 1993
Museum of Ventura County
1900 October
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25991
Black and white photograph
12.5 x 20.4 cm (mounted)
English
Image
25992
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Ventura Street Fair Parade, 1900
Parade floats
Parades--California--Ventura
Fairs
Parade scene on Main Street in Ventura during the Ventura Street Fair, 1900. Storefronts and tents for fair vendors are visible behind large crowd watching the procession. Parade float passing crowd is pulled by two white horses. Six men dressed in white suits walk along the sides of the float. A woman dressed in a costume stands on the float.
Park & Rogers
Drapeau Family Collection, 1993
Museum of Ventura County
1900 October
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25992
Black and white photograph
12.5 x 20.4 cm (mounted)
English
Image
25991
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Carmen Camarillo Riding in Fiesta Parade
Camarillo White Horses
Parades
Jones, Carmen Camarillo
Carmen Camarillo and two unidentified men riding horseback during the Fiesta Parade on State Street in Santa Barbara. Carmen is riding a Camarillo White Horse, the two men are riding dark-colored horses.
Unknown
Camarillo Family Collection, 1990
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Black and white photograph
12.6 x 16 cm
English
Image
17953
California
Santa Barbara County (Calif.)
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Opening of Maricopa Highway
California Highway 33 (Calif.)
Women
Special events
Six young women dressed in bathing suits and high heels pose in front of a sign at the opening of Maricopa Highway [California State Route 33]. A crowd of people is visible on the left side of the image. Motorcycles are visible in background. Sign reads, "Ventura extends a welcome to the people of San Joaquin Valley," and shows two hands holding a ribbon stretched at a diagonal across the sign.
Note: Museum records indicate that three of the women are Ruby Bounds [Peirano], Nell Haley [Bates], and Margaret Aneel.
Unknown
Nick Peirano Collection, 1987
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1930
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Black and white photograph
10.4 x 18 cm
English
Image
13853
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Joe E. Brown Cutting Cake at Ventura County Fair
Ventura County Fair (Ventura County, Calif.)
Brown, Joe E. (Joe Evan), 1892-1973
Baker, Bill
Cake
Actor Joe E. Brown (left) and three others cutting a large, decorated cake baked by Bill Baker, at the Ventura County Fair. Bill Baker is second from the left. Crowd visible in background.
Unknown
1985
Museum of Ventura County
1922
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Black and white photograph
12.5 x 16 cm
English
Image
11712
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Decorated Automobiles
Automobiles
Parade floats
Row of five automobiles decorated in flowers and flags for unknown celebration. Men dressed in dark shirts and light pants and hats pose with the vehicles. Second automobile from the right appears to be a fire engine with ladder and bell.
Unknown
Donated by: Bernise Forbes, 1980.
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1900-1925
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Black and white photograph
18.7 x 24 cm
English
Image
8371
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Bird's Eye View of the Ventura Street Fair, 1901
Ventura (Calif.)--Views
Fairs
Festivals
Maypoles
Bird's eye view of the Ventura Street Fair. Crowds of people fill the street. A Maypole with children dancing around it is visible in the foreground. Also visible is a stage with carpet leading to the Fair's Queen and her court. Storefronts are visible beyond the the crowds.
Unknown
Gwendolyn Greene Collection, 1997
Museum of Ventura County
1901
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Sepia photograph
9.5 x 11.5 cm
English
Image
30917
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Queen Bertha and Her Court, Ventura Street Fair
Costume
Fairs
Portraits, Group
Group photo of people dressed in Baroque-style costumes at the Ventura Street Fair. Two people are seated in thrones in the center of the image, the one seated in the left throne is a woman wearing a crown and identified as "Queen Bertha." Two girls are seated in front of the thrones with a man dressed as a jester. A carpet leads up the center of the view to the thrones.
Unknown
Gwendolyn Greene Collection, 1997
Museum of Ventura County
1901
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Sepia photograph
9.5 x 12 cm
Portrait, Group
English
Image
30916
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Large Picnic Gathering
Picnics
Puentener, A.
Family reunions
Fourth of July celebrations
Group photo of a large group of nearly 100 of all ages. Picnic given by Mr. A. Puentener, Verdi (of north Ventura Avenue) for relatives from Switzerland, July 4, 1896.
Bob Pieser Photo (Ventura, Calif.)
Museum of Ventura County
1896-07-04
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Black and white photograph
Portraits, Group
25.3 x 20.3 cm
English
Image
509
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
JunÃpero Serra Day at Grant Park
Actors
Portraits, Group
Holidays
Grant Park (Ventura, Calif.)
Crosses
Group photo of men, women, and children under the cross at Grant Park in Ventura, Calif. The caption at the bottom of the photo reads "Chief Actors JunÃpero Serra Day 11\24 '13."
The actors are named but not identified as follows:
J. E. Reynolds
J. P. Rasmussen
C. Kuhn
J. R. McCloskey
S. N. Sheridan
N. Hearne, Sr.
D. ?? Hare (Stroud)
Mrs. Myrtle Francis
Mrs. J. S. Blackstock
Rev. P. J. Grogan
J. S. Blackstock
T. G. (?) Gabbert
Mrs. J. J. McGregor
W. H. Frances
Dingman
Museum of Ventura County
1913-11-24
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Portrait, Group
17.7 x 12.7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
423
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Ventura Fire Department on Parade Float
Ventura Fire Department
Fire fighters
Parade floats
Members of the Ventura Fire Department stand on a decorated horse drawn wagon. Most likely they are ready for the Ventura Street Fair in 1901. Wagon and horses are decorated with US flags and feathers.
Some of the fire fighters are named, but not necessarily identified. They are:
John Nichol (?)
Tom Maquire
H. O. De La Guerra
Adam Rodriguez (driver)
Bert Johnson
Tom Crawford
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
1901
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27.5 x 22.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
411
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Dedication of Montalvo Bridge
Montalvo Bridge (Ventura, Calif.)
Mott, David W.
Mounted photograph showing the dedication ceremony for the Montalvo Bridge. Ceremony takes place on the bridge itself, a large crowd is in attendance. A man sits at a drum in the center of the image. Dr. David Mott is speaking (standing on the left of image, facing viewer).
Brewster, John Calvin
Museum of Ventura County
1898
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23 x 18.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
375
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Untitled, (Parade Floats)
Parades--Decorated Car
Parades--Floats--Circa 1915-20
A parade scene. A woman riding in a cart is holding the reins of four small horses. An automobile decorated in flowers is partially visible behind the horses. The parade appears to be passing a park. Several people, standing and seated, watch the parade from a paved sidewalk that lines the unpaved street. Houses are visible in the background.
[AZO in stamp area]
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Black and white postcard
15 x 10 cm
English
Image
20169 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Untitled, (Picture of Parade Float, Native Sons and Daughters of Golden West)
Parades--Floats
This postcard depicts a decorated parade float. A man is standing on the float holding the reins of two horses that are pulling the float on a dirt street. A bear is part of the float decorations. Buildings are visible in the background.
[AZO in stamp area]
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Black and white postcard
15 x 10 cm
English
Image
20168 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ray Prueter, Robert Jennings, and Tom Laubacher at Groundbreaking for Hueneme Harbor Expansion
Prueter, Ray Donald, 1920-2008
Jennings, Robert
Laubacher, Tom
Port Hueneme Harbor (Calif.)
Group photo of three men each holding on to one of three handles of a shovel that is ready to go into the ground. The men wear suits and ties and are at the Hueneme Harbor. Next to them is a drawing reading "artist's conception future expansion Port of Hueneme."
Library records state: "Ground Breaking. June 30, 1969. First phase of harbor expansion. Mayor Ray Prueter, Robert Jennings, Pres. Oxnard Harbor Dist. Commission and Supervisor Tom Laubacher."
Unknown
Port Hueneme Museum, 1984
Museum of Ventura County
1969-06-30
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Portrait, Group
16.6 x 10.7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
10594
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Port Hueneme (Calif.)
Children's Parade
Parades
Children
Main Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Children's parade down Main Street, Ventura. The children stand in a "V" formation holding with one hand what appear to be sheets that have been knotted together to form the "V." In their other hand, they hold US flags high up in the air. More children holding flags can be seen behind this first group. On the right, a man in a suit and hat also holds up a US flag. On the left, there is a "Phares Meyers" wall paper, etc. located at 741 E. Main St. Several buildings and businesses are visible in the background.
Brewster, John Calvin
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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25.5 x 21 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
5888
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Dedication of Pioneer Monument
Ventura County Pioneers
Monuments
Foster Park (Ventura, Calif.)
A large crowd of men, women, and children gather along either side of the Pioneer Monument in Foster Park on the occasion of its dedication on June 9, 1934. The monument is comprised on a bronze plaque on a Sespe brownstone boulder that lists the names of pioneer men and women who settled Ventura County prior to 1874. In the foreground is a hill leading up to the plaque. Among the crowd is Adolfo Camarillo, who is left of the plaque near a chair, holding a disk under one arm.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
1934-06-09
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Portrait, Group
22.5 x 14 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
5070
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Buena High Graduates Throwing Mortarboards
Buena High School (Ventura, Calif.)
High school graduates
Graduation (School)
Buena High graduates stand outdoors celebrating their graduation by holding up their diplomas and throwing mortarboards into the air. Young women appear to be wearing lighter colored graduation gowns than those of the young men. Ventura County Star-Free Press taken 6-13-85, published 6-14-85.
Ventura County Star-Free Press
Ventura County Star-Free Press, 1985
Museum of Ventura County
1985-06-13
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18 x 12 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
11290
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Gathering to Greet Senator Bard at Southern Pacific Railroad Depot
Bard, Thomas Robert, 1841-1915
Parades
Railroad stations
Bird's eye view of a crowd gathered to greet Senator Bard at the Southern Pacific station in Ventura. There is a band ready to perform holding their instruments, mid image. Pioneer Society banner behind band. Several horse-drawn carriages are in the scene, as are buildings, including the railroad station and a building that reads Union Ice Co. There is also a stopped train at right of image.
Brewster, John Calvin
Museum of Ventura County
1900-02-04
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4641
30.5 x 23 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
1304
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
First Wedding at Oxnard Buddhist Church, 1931
Weddings
Iwamoto family
Buddhist Church of Oxnard
Japanese American families
Panoramic group portrait for the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Masakatsu Iwamoto. Married in the first wedding conducted at Oxnard Buddhist Church in Oxnard, Calif. in 1931. Bride, groom, wedding party and guests are gathered outside the church for the portrait.
Library records indicate "Reverend Masunaga is in center; Flower girls: Masami Moriwaki, left, Hisae Kanda, right; Maid of Honor: Miyoko Takeda; Best Man: Kivosada Hashimoto (behind left flower girl).
Unknown
Moriwaki Family Collection, 1994
Museum of Ventura County
1931
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Panorama
Portrait, Group
68.3 x 20.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
27672 OS
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Dedication of Ventura County Court House, 1913
Ventura County Courthouse (1913-1968)
Public buildings
Historic buildings--California
Side view of the dedication ceremony taking place for the Ventura County Courthouse in 1913. Several people stand on the front entrance and side of the building. Chairs are set up in the grass in front of the building with several groups of people standing and sitting around the building. The building at California and Poli Street in downtown Ventura is now the Ventura City Hall since around 1971.
Unknown
Drapeau Family Collection, 1993
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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13.1 x 17.4 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
26056
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Waiting for President Theodore Roosevelt at Ventura Railroad Depot
Southern Pacific Railroad
Railroad stations
Visits of state
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Groups of men wait for the arrival of President Theodore Roosevelt at the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot in Ventura. The depot looks adorned for the occasion with US flags, stars, and flowers. Sign on the depot reads "San Buenaventura." Tracks are in the foreground.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
1903
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12.9 x 16.9 cm
20.5 x 15.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
779
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)