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Street view of the north side the corner of Main Street and Ventura Avenue looking west. Shows intersection. Unidentified buildings in distance. Mountains in background.

Exterior view of the George Gilbert home, a two-story home with a porch and balcony above the porch. View is from outside the front fence. People, presumably the Gilbert family stand on the balcony. On the porch, a girl is seated at a melodeon next…

View of a crooked palm tree on Ventura Avenue. Palm's trunk has a distinctive 90 degree bend to the right.

Map showing survey of a part of the Southerly boundary line of lands of the Canet Company as per Book 148 of Deeds at page 63. Part of Lot 11, Tract C, Rancho Canada Larga. Shows portions of Ventura Avenue and Canada Larga Road. Shows lands belonging…

Group photo of eight men at work drying apricots on Canet Ranch on "The Avenue" in Ventura. The Avenue refers to Ventura Ave. Five men sit in front of a shed, while stand near apricot drying trays. Some trays are stacked and others are laid out for…

View of the Cañada Larga Bridge from the banks below after it was newly built in 1899. Signs for Chaffee's, possibly a clothing store, visible in the image. Museum records indicate: "Cañada Larga new structure built in 1899 - rubble masonry abutments…

View of Cañada Larga Bridge, a small wooden bridge, Ventura Avenue, prior to 1899. Ventura Avenue is a winding dirt road.

Bird's eye view of Avenue Oil Field, writing on photograph states: Petroleum Securities Lease Avenue Oil Field. Photo taken from hill at Gosnell Bend on Ventura Avenue.

Group photo of apricot pickers, men, women, and children, on the Staire Ranch standing in front of a pitting shed. Staire Ranch was on Ventura Avenue. On the right, the woman with dirty apron, hand to head, is Muriel C. Eells. Man in dark coveralls…

Vertical aerial view of Ventura downtown and the Avenue area.

The "House of the Angel," an adobe on the site of the Hill School, distant view. The first Republican Club also met in the adobe according to the caption attached to photo. Image also shows a dirt road running in front of the adobe along the hill and…