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Pierpont Bay beach area storm damage (December 1937) with nine persons in a group, showing houses and fallen pilings in foreground. Caption on photo verso reads December 1938.

Junipero Serra Day November 24, 1913. A group of people gathered at the cross on the hill in Ventura.

Snapshot of the exterior of the former Ventura Courthouse, now City Hall.

House on the corner of Poli and Aliso streets.

View of the city from the rear of the San Buenaventura Mission.

Beachgoers on sand, in the water, and on the pier. Beach in foreground and pier in the background. Pier and beach appear very crowded.

Sheriff William H. Reilly seated at a desk, body turned toward the camera with a pen in one hand and a piece of paper in the other. Caption at bottom of photo states: "Sheriff Will Reilly, Later prison warden at Folsom."

Shot of the outside of the Dartford Schoolhouse

Man, possibly named Owens, standing by irrigation ditch outside of cabin possibly near Matilija.

Union Oil Company panorama view of tramway to wharf in Ventura. Photo has a crease along the center as if it had been folded in half.

Side view of Mr. Dimmick standing outdoors on a ship or wharf with hand in pocket. He appears to be smiling at someone not in view of the camera. Photo is of him possibly when a wharf manager; he later was a Justice of the Peace.

View of beach and ocean at sunset, a house and large tree are visible to the right of photo, ocean to the left. Sun is setting behind the tree and some figures are visible on the beach.

Bust portrait of Frank Peterson, first Sheriff of Ventura County, 1873. He is facing forward looking to the right. He was born in Missouri and died in San Diego in 1882 at age 40.

A bird's eye view of Ventura and the Pacific Ocean, circa 1910. Grassy hillside in foreground. 2 copies of same photo in collection.

Aerial snapshot of Piru

Snapshot of underpass crossing on Roosevelt Highway, now Pacific Coast Highway or California State Route 1, north of Oxford, during flood.

Snapshot of what is likely the Ventura River following rain during high water

View of C Street in Oxnard, a dirt road, with houses visible on both sides.

Harmon Barranca bridge near Saticoy - "Brigham Young". A group of men stand on and next to the bridge, while one man poses for the camera, smiling into it.

Groups of men, women, and children stand on the porch of the Ojai Valley House, a two-story structure, circa 1890, which is where present day Civic Center stands.

Lumber schooner at wharf in Ventura, wharf in foreground

A group of schoolchildren posing by an exhibit at the Mupu School at the mouth of the Santa Paula Canyon.

Photographic portrait of Osage man

Three-quarters portrait of E. M. Sheridan holding a bowl. Sheridan rests the bowl on a wall and looks toward the viewer.

Photographic portrait of a man with spectacles, possibly with the surname Chrisman.