Ojai Post Office Tower and Portico
Post office buildings
View from across the street of the front and side exterior of the Ojai post office, which has a prominent bell tower and a tile roof portico. Front of building reads "United States Post Office Ojai." There are parked cars along the streets surrounding the post office. Street intersection in front of the post office in foreground. Two women pictured on the sidewalk on lower left of image.
Unknown
1991
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1977
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12.5 x 12.6 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
19000
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
President William McKinley at Plaza School
McKinley, William, 1843-1901
Visits of state
Plaza School (Ventura, Calif.)
President McKinley on speakers stand in front of Plaza School. Photo taken from below, looking up at him.
Bean, Della
1987
Museum of Ventura County
1901-05-10
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8.5 x 8.6 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
14019
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Main Street, 4th of July, Ventura
Fourth of July celebrations
Main Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Holidays
Main Street, Ventura, 4th of July-three cars with flags, a group of men and a dog are pictured in the street in front of some buildings.
Dingman
Pleasant Valley Historical Society, 2015
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1910
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21 x 16 cm
Sepia photograph
English
Image
40681
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Wheeler's Hotel
Hotels--California--Ventura County
Wheeler's Hotel with a large group of people standing on the porch. Verso of photo states: "probably Wheeler Hot Springs Ventura Co."
Unknown
Pleasant Valley Historical Society, 2015
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1890s
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Sepia photograph
Group Portrait
23 x 18 cm
English
Image
40682-15
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Wheeler Springs (Calif.)
Main Street Parade
Central business districts
Main Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Parades
Main Street Parade
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Glass plate negative
English
Image
gp113
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Welcome Home Banquet for Aviators Lyon and Warren
Air pilots
Dinners and dining
Group photo showing people sitting at a long banquet table and several tables in large banquet hall. Caption reads "Examiner's welcome home banquet to aviators Lyon and Warren, Biltmore, Los Angeles, July 14, 1928.
Weaver
1982
Museum of Ventura County
1928-07-14
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Portrait, Group
25.5 x 50.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
8514
California
Los Angeles County (Calif.)
First National Bank Postcard
Ventura--Buildings--Banks--First National
A three-story yellow building on a street corner. The entrance is rounded and directly at the corner. A sculpted sign above the door says 'BANK', and on that corner of the third floor is a plaque declaring '1899'. On the left side of the building, the first floor windows are rectangular, and the second floor windows are rounded at the top to accomodate arches extending up from the building's foundation. People stand outside the entrance to the bank. Parked along the street are two motorcars and a horse and buggy. A couple sits in one of the cars. On top of the bank is an American flag.
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, CA (Printed by N.P.C. Co. of Los Angeles) Made in Germany]
Brakey, J. R.
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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41871 OS
15 x 10 cm
Color postcard
English
Image
20659 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Group Photo of Children at Santa Clara Street Kindergarten
School children
Classes (Groups of students)
Santa Clara Kindergarten (Ventura, Calif.)
Three rows of children are seen seated and standing in front of a building. The children are wearing some sort of hat and holding American flags. Miss Oleson, teacher, can be seen with her arm around Mrs. Jeannie Van Delinder who is wearing blackface. Library records show the word "mammy" used after Mrs. Van Delinder's name and also mention the occasion was in celebration of her birthday.
Unknown
J. Kelly Collection, 1988 [14563]
Gift of Steve Shafer, 2010 [39562]
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1930
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12.5 x 16.7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
14563
39562
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Ventura County Court House
Ventura County Courthouse (Calif.)
Caption: "V6 - VENTURA COUNTY COURTHOUSE. VENTURA, CALIF."
Aerial front view of the Ventura County Courthouse face. A Beaux-Arts style two story building with Neoclassical features and a Spanish tile roof. The campus is lushly landscaped with many plants and palm trees, and rolling hills in the background.
[Kashower, Robert, Los Angeles, Calif., V6]
Kashower, Robert
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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15 x 10 cm
Color postcard
English
Image
20045 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Labor Day Celebration
Labor Day
Special events
Outdoor photo of large crowd assembled for a Labor Day celebration. In center background - man on stage is in front of mounted American flag. Photo taken looking Southeast on 5th and A Streets. Security Pacific Building on right. Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicles building visible in far left of photo behind mounted flag. Three men in band uniform facing podium in right front of photo. Bottom right of photo: "The Arnolds Oxnard, Calif. Sept 6-24"
The Arnolds
2003
Museum of Ventura County
1924-09-06
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25.5 x 20.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
34943
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Good Roads Tour of County, Chamber of Commerce, Ojai
Roads
Automobiles
Bicycles
Carriages and carts
Several men stand in the middle of a street with automobiles, bicycles and a horse and wagon. Automobiles are decorated with U.S. flags.
Library records state "Good Roads Tour of County, Chamber of Commerce, Ojai, 1912" for one of the two duplicate photos. And the other description states "Fourth of July Boosters at Ojai, 1913."
Dingman
Museum of Ventura County
1912-1913
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Black and white photograph
English
Image
2251
3306
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Freight Cars at Oxnard Sugar Factory
Freight cars
Beet sugar industry
Sugar beet
American Beet Sugar Company
Closeup view of sugar beets piled into two freight cars on a track outside of the beet sugar factory in Oxnard. Factory buildings are in the background, and American flag flies above the buildings.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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12.7 x 10 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
462
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Ojai Valley House Illustration
Hotels
Illustration of Ojai Valley House, a large two story structure with a circular driveway in front and a picket fence around the property. It is a busy scene with people walking around the grounds, sitting, and playing croquet. There are tents set up on a lawn in the picture's left side. There are two drawings in the top corners, one of a grassy field and hill and one of a very small house or building. Bottom of illustration: "Ojai Valley House, James Huntington, Prop. Nordhoff Ojai Valley Ventura Co. Calif."
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Black and White Illustration
24.6 x 18 cm
English
Image
305
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Somis School
Somis School
School children
Horses
Photo of Somis School from a distance, full building is in view as well as a tall flag pole with a United States flag flying. Children and horses are in view along a fence that appears to surround the school grounds. Writing on photo: "For Artie, first school you attended."
Garden City Photo Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1900
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1256
22 x 29.5 cm
Sepia photograph
English
Image
1258
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Somis (Calif.)
Hobson Brothers Packing Company Parade Float
Parades
Fourth of July celebrations
Butchers (Persons)
Snapshot of a parade float in a fourth of July parade for the Hobson Brothers Packing Company. Image shows a man dressed in a white apron and hat, probably a butcher, sitting on the side of the float. Sign on the float cannot be seen completely but appears to read: "Hobson Bros. Packing Co."
Unknown
Virginia Gould Collection, 1993
Museum of Ventura County
1924-07-04
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11 x 6.8 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
26249
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Japanese Serviceman's Monument, Rivers Arizona
Gila River Relocation Center
Internment of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945
Soldiers' monuments
Arizona
Nisei
This image shows two young women posing in front of the Gila River Relocation Center's Serviceman's Monument. During the war, these honor rolls were created within Japanese detention centers to recognize the camp residents who enlisted before the war was over.
Unknown
Helen Yamamoto Collection, 1995
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1944
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20.3 x 25.4 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
28226
Manager Residence, Oxnard Sugar Beet Factory
American Beet Sugar Company
Two-story houses
Industrial housing
This image shows the daylight front exterior of the manager's residence on the grounds of the Oxnard Sugar Beet Factory.
Unknown
Tsugio Takasugi Collection, 1993
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1900
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12.8 x 17.7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
26054
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Kaniye Sensei and Masako Moriwaki
Japanese American families
Flags
Moriwaki family
This image shows Mrs. Kaniye Sensei and Masako Moriwaki posing together in front of a festively decorated automobile. Automobile has US flag decorations and paper lanterns hanging from it. Masako appears to be in traditional Japanese clothing.
Unknown
Moriwaki Family Collection, 1994
Museum of Ventura County
1928
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25.4 x 20.3 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
27409
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Potrero Seco Forest Service Station
Horses
Fire lookout stations
Los Padres National Forest (Agency : U.S.)
Image is of Potrero Seco Forest Service Station. Scene shows two horses in a field facing each other (view of horses in profile) with a flag pole between them--a United States flag flying atop the flag pole.
Unknown
Cecelia Ruiz Collection, 2003
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Black and white negative
English
Image
25703 NP
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Max Riave and Kristen Witherspoon
Riave, Max, 1894-1982
Flag Day
Witherspoon, Kristen
Snapshot of Max Riave holding a small American flag while interacting with Kristen Witherspoon, a third grader at Pleasant Valley School on Flag Day. Max is an older man wearing black rimmed glasses, a light colored suit and striped tie. Kristen has blond pig-tail braids and is wearing a v-neck t-shirt. Various classroom posters can be seen in the background. The following is printed on the photograph: Pleasant Valley School Flag Day, Charter Monarrh (?) Max Riave April 1980.
Unknown
Kandy Riave Hutman Collection, 1994
Museum of Ventura County
1980 April
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16.3 x 19.1 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
28133
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Camarillo (Calif.)
Del Norte Grammar School Students, 1908
Del Norte Grammar School
School children
Classes (Groups of students)
Mounted school photo of the student body of Del Norte Grammar School. Top of photo reads "Del Norte Grammar School -- Santa Clara Avenue near Saticoy Road - burned down many years ago." Kids are standing in front of the school. Image was taken from a distance, the whole school building is visible, and the kids aren't clearly discernable because they are distant.
Names as listed on the photo:
Back row: Teacher -- Mrs. Moss -- all 8 grades in one room. Leland Owens, Walter Seely, Manuel Rose, Joe Enos, Joe Miller, Augustine Solari, Carlton Owens, Mary Enos, Virginia Correa, Ruth Ruiz, Lucy Ruiz, Eugenia Miller, Louise Silva, Dora Enos.
Front row: Margaret Enos, Mary Miller, Alice Correa, Margaret Silva, Laura Rose, Byron Cox, Harold Cox, Gabriel Solari, Angel Milani, Gabriel Ruiz, Alexandria Rose, Carrie Rose.
Unknown
Alice Ruiz Collection, 1997
Museum of Ventura County
1908
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Portrait, Group
16.3 x 17.8 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
30443
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Katherine Hoffman Haley at St. Catherine's School
Hoffman, Katherine Louise, 1919-1999
St. Catherine's School (Ventura, Calif.)
Students
Five children are seated at two tables in a classroom at St. Catherine's School. At the far table, there is a young girl looking directly at the viewer and a young boy reading a book. At the nearer table, Katherine Hoffman Haley is seated on the left with a young boy and another young girl. All three of these children are looking directly at the viewer. School paraphernalia can be seen around the room such as posters, and American flag and blackboards.
Unknown
Katherine Haley Collection, 1997
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1920s
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Black and white negative
English
Image
30631 NP
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Masonic Gathering
Freemasons
Meetings
A large group of men, women, children gather in the outdoors and listen to a speaker on a platform in the center of the photos. Some automobiles are visible at top of photo. It is possibly Fourth of July because there are many US flags decorating the makeshift stage.
Unknown
1988
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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50 x 18.3 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
15046 OS
California
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.)
Largest Loaf of Bread Ever Made
American Bakery
Bread
Tractors
Bill Baker's "largest loaf of bread ever made" on trailer with Fordson tractor attached, parked in front of American Bakery in Ventura, CA. The trailer is decorated with US flag banners. The American Bakery is also adorned with US flags and banners. The side of the truck reads "Largest loaf of bread ever made; Donated to the American Legion; by Bill Baker - Ventura; A sandwich from this boat [or loaf?] of concessions."
Unknown
1985
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1920
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17.8 x 12.8 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
11707
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)