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Piru Reservoir
First reservoir built behind Cook Mansion (aka Newhall Mansion or Piru Mansion). It is a wooden structure with cone shaped roof. There is a tall mountain in image background taking up the top half of image and a faucet in the foreground of image.
Farm Scene - Horses, Equipment, and Men
Farm scene showing men, horse teams, and equipment in a vast field. It appears no crops are growing on the field yet. Mountains in the background. Image is mounted.
Ventura River Valley Aerial View
View of Ventura looking south. Ventura city and oil fields visible. Hills line both sides of image, Pacific Ocean at top of image.
Ventura, Aerial View, 1933
Aerial view of Ventura, looking west from over the railroad near Brent. Coastline prominent on left side of image, mountains at top of image.
Hardison and Stewart Oil Rig
View of oil rig on the right side of the image, some men with large pipes mid image and another piece of equipment on the left of the image. There are buildings in the background and behind those are tall hills or mountains. According to library…
Three Men in Front of Nick Walnut Homestead
Three men stand outdoors in front of a small wooden house or cabin at the Nick Walnut homestead. They are surrounded by wilderness. The man in center identified as Nick Walnut (Nicola Noce). Nick is holding two horses (one may be a mule) on either…
Port Hueneme Commercial Entrance Aerial Photo
Glossy aerial photo of entrance to Port Hueneme Commercial
Harbor. View extends out past the Port Hueneme Pier on one side and the Oxnard beaches on the other. Extensive mountain range from the coast inland also in view.
Harbor. View extends out past the Port Hueneme Pier on one side and the Oxnard beaches on the other. Extensive mountain range from the coast inland also in view.
Bird's Eye View of Oxnard Plain from Camarillo Heights
Scenic view of the Oxnard Plain looking south from Camarillo Heights. Mainly agricultural fields in view along with a few scattered houses. Mountain rain spans across the middle of the image, with clouds making up the top half of image.
Orange Grove in California Near Ventura Postcard
View of a path between orange groves with snowy (?) mountains in the background. Postcard is captioned "Orange Grove in California, Near Ventura" at the top. Duplicate of 21874 PC.
[Longshaw Card Co., Los Angeles, California, 853]
[Longshaw Card Co., Los Angeles, California, 853]
Aerial View of Ventura Marina, 1966
Aerial view of Ventura Harbor/Marina looking eastward. Marina at lower part of the image and farmland and mountains at top. Several sailboats sailing.
San Buenaventura, Cal., 1877: Being a "Birds Eye" View of Downtown Ventura
Bird's eye view of Downtown Ventura in 1877, with a view "From the Bay, Looking North" as written along the bottom of the map. Ships, wharf, beach, and mountains in image.
[Notes: Lithograph by A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco, Calif; Map…
[Notes: Lithograph by A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco, Calif; Map…
Distant View of Santa Paula, 1891
Distant view looking down on Santa Paula in 1891 from atop a hill. Grass and a house are in the foreground, and spread out houses and buildings dot the scene. Mountains are in the background of the image. This image is the left half of a panorama…
R. F. Stewart, Blacksmith and Horse Shoer
A man stands in the doorway of a blacksmiths shop looking at the viewer; presumably he is R. F. Stewart. The shop sign reads "R. F. Stewart, Blacksmith and practical Horse Shoer." In the background, left, there is another building and in the…
Ventura Pier Beach Scene
This image shows the beach from the point of view of the Ventura Pier looking inland. There are people on the beach and several cars parked in the background.
The Foothills Hotel, Nordhoff, Ojai Valley, Calif.
Landscape view of Foothills Hotel, Ojai. The three story Craftsman style building has a wood shingle exterior and a lushly landscaped campus. Flowering vines overhang the porches. Several horses wait outside the building at the head of its roundabout…
Avenue Oil Fields, Ventura, Calif.
Landscape view of a petroleum refinery. Twenty or more oil wells stand in a field to the right of a paved road and a residential area with telephone poles and houses. A mountain range is in the background.
Caption: "Avenue Oil Field - Ventura Calif…
Caption: "Avenue Oil Field - Ventura Calif…
Orange Grove in California, Near Ventura
View of a path between orange groves with snowy (?) mountains in the background. Postcard is captioned "Orange Grove in California, Near Ventura" at the top. Duplicate of 22876 PC.
[Longshaw Card Co., Los Angeles, Calif., 85]
[Longshaw Card Co., Los Angeles, Calif., 85]
Wiley's Lake near Fillmore, California
Scene with Wiley's Lake in foreground and mountains in background.
[Newman Post Card Co., Los Angeles, Cal., made in Germany for Richard Stephens, Fillmore, Cal.]
[Newman Post Card Co., Los Angeles, Cal., made in Germany for Richard Stephens, Fillmore, Cal.]
Tennis Courts, Thacher School, Ojai
View of roadway running alongside the tennis courts at Thacher School in Ojai, which are to the left of postcard. There are benches on a grassy hill alongside the courts with one spectator; many players are on the tennis courts. Caption at bottom…
Sailboat in Matilija Dam
Matilija Dam on a clear, sunny day, with a single sailboat on the water. There is shrubbery and plant life in the foreground and mountains in the background.
[Columbia Wholesale Supply, 7609 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood 46, Calif., H2638 &…
[Columbia Wholesale Supply, 7609 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood 46, Calif., H2638 &…
Matilija Dam
The wall of Matilija Dam, with vegetation-covered mountains in the background and a clearing with two small buildings in front of the dam. In the foreground are shrubs and rocks.
[Columbia Wholesale Supply, 11401 Chandler, North Hollywood, Calif.,…
[Columbia Wholesale Supply, 11401 Chandler, North Hollywood, Calif.,…
Portion of Ventura
A semi-aerial shot of a residential area. A number of houses, most white with red roofs, are located around a park, now Plaza Park. The rows of houses are seen stretching back towards green mountains. A lumber yard is in the bottom right…
Santa Susana Pass
Green mountains stretch off into the distance, a highway cutting through them. An orange car has pulled to the side of the road, with a group of people standing next to it at an overlook.
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, CAl. (C.T. American Art), R-83325]
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, CAl. (C.T. American Art), R-83325]
Panorama (4 card series, uncut) of Ventura
A panoramic view of Ventura, looking over houses and towards the mountains. A red train cuts across the left of the image, just past a railroad intersection with a large street.
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, Cal (Panama/California Exposition, San Diego,…
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, Cal (Panama/California Exposition, San Diego,…
Bird's Eye View of Buena Ventura
An angled aerial view of downtown Ventura, with the Mission visible to the left of center. Most of the area is still green, but there are some large buildings scattered along the same road as the Mission. The ocean is visible off in the distance.…