Browse Items (4283 total)

Group photo of World War I draftees, No. 2 draft. The group is in front of the Ventura County Court House. "Ventura Liberty Boys 9/21-17" across bottom left. Photo is creased and torn in some spots.

Ventura City Hall on the Northwestern corner of California St., with Ventura Court House at the top of California St.

View of busy Main Street, Ventura, looking west from intersection of Main and California Streets. Horse and wagons line the street and people are walking around. Everything is adorned with US flags and bunting, possibly for Independence Day.

The Fourth of July Boosters Club in Santa Paula. A group of men stand in the street posing for this group portrait next to their vehicles. There are approximately 12 men and 4 cars. The cars are decorated with US flags. The men are dressed in suits…

Interior view of the Superior Court in Ventura County's new Courthouse, Judge Clark presiding. Most people present are watching the proceedings, facing the bench. Some are facing the camera. One man in bottom left of photo is turned back facing…

Coos Bay, wrecked on Ventura pier 19 Dec 1914. Made fast & ready to unload when heavy ground swell caused ship to hit bottom. Filled from stern & was pushed thru pier where remains are today. Photo shows many people standing on pier on left and…

Plank causeway near Rincon Point. Distant view of two men, two women, and a child standing on the causeway next to an auto.

Ventura County Courthouse dedication parade entrants. A man dressed in white on horseback leads two rows of women also dressed in white holding white parasols. Residences and/or businesses are in the background. Main Street, Ventura, 1913.

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…

Portrait of Edith Hoffman, seated, holding her daughter baby Katherine Louise Hoffman in her lap. Camera is looking down on mother and baby, Edith is smiling into the camera.

Portrait bust of Edith May Hobson, later Edith Hobson Hoffman, as a young woman. She is wearing her hair up or short and is looking to the right of the camera.

Group photo of men on horseback forming a straight line, looking toward the camera. Location is the Hobson Brothers feed lot in El Rio near present day (2021) Highway 101 and Rose Avenue. There are numerous cows and a couple of buildings in the…

Group photo of 5 men on horseback, looking toward the camera. Location is the Hobson Brothers feed lot in El Rio near present day (2021) Highway 101 and Rose Avenue. There are numerous cows and more men on horseback and other men working in the…

Image taken from afar, ocean in foreground, of the USS South Dakota, in Ventura for a celebration in 1914. Bottom right of photo reads "Compliments of Dingman Studio Ventura."
'Photographer - Dingnan Studio.

Group photograph in front of the residence of Adolfo Camarillo. Approximately 15 men are standing in front of home and one woman in standing on the porch. There are also two cars draped in American flags. The house is a large, two-story, Victorian…

May Davison (Mrs. Jack Neville) rides in a float along with a man in what appears to be a sailor suit and cap. May Davison holds an umbrella. The float is a car decorated with flowers and shrubbery that is made out to look like a boat. A US flag…

San Buenaventura Mission interior, showing the altar decorated with lilies and a large ceiling light fixture at top of image. Church is possibly decorated for Easter; a large cross spells out "He is Risen" in flowers.

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 Junípero Serra Day 11\24 '13."

The actors are named but not identified as follows:
J. E.…

Panoramic shot of Ventura Bridge and surrounding landscape.

View of Serra Cross at sunset, facing westward, ocean in background. Several people are gathered around the cross. Caption states: "Under the Cross" Sunset. Junipero Serra Day Ventura, Cal. 11/24/13. Dingman Photo.

Portrait of Ventura Arnaz Wagner seated on a bench to the right of a window. Her toddler-aged granddaughter is seated on her lap. Wagner holds her granddaughter with one hand and a flower in the other. She is looking out the window, to the viewer's…

Group photo of Betty Brazil, Dorothy Nicholson, Delee Staunton on a Ventura-Hueneme bike ride in June 1939. They are looking at the camera, sitting on their bikes. Taken by Otis Draper in front of his home in Ventura.

Panoramic view of Ventura Oil Fields. Oversized, rolled and tinted photograph.

View of a large tree (left), service station (middle), and buildings (right) in Port Hueneme after a snowfall. Street in foreground with tire tracks in snow.

Scene showing a helicopter flying towards a fire burning through Bear and Stewart Canyons. Flames visible on hillside with large smoke clouds filling the air. Helicopter pilot scouting the fire. Equipment and men working the fire line in Stewart…