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Library records state: "The Butterfield Grade came thru the saddleback at the left of center of the picture and swung around to the right following the contour of the hills and reached the Santa Rosa Valley at the present school house [Santa Rosa…

Library records state: "The last remaining segment of the Butterfield Grade on the north side of the summit, now used for a farm implement road." Image shows a grassy road leading uphill.

Library records state: "One hundred-ten years after Thompson's powder monkeys blasted their way up the west slope of the Santa Susana Pass, the drill holes for black powder are still plainly visible. Stan Taylor (Principal of Abraham Lincoln School…

Stagecoach Road on the Conejo grade. Two images, one of the images shows the road with arrows winding along the side of the mountain. Library records state "The remains of the first wagon road down the Conejo Grade."

Snapshot of the Ortega Adobe. View from the east looking at the front porch. Adjacent buildings visible in background.

Snapshot of the Ortega Adobe. View from the northwest.

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…

Aerial view looking toward Newbury Park and the Conejo Grade. Janss Mall, Thousand Oaks visible in foreground. Ventura Freeway is at left.

Profile view of A.L. Hobson and Tom Mix on horseback at the Ventura County fairgrounds, 1921. Ferris wheel in the background.

Interior view of St. Paul's Church in Ventura decorated with flowers, ribbons and/or tulle for the marriage of Edith May Hobson and Walter Henry Hoffman Jr. Shows a close up view of the altar.

Interior view of St. Paul's Church in Ventura decorated with flowers, ribbons and/or tulle for the marriage of Edith May Hobson and Walter Henry Hoffman Jr. Shows the center aisle of the church leading up to the altar with the decorated pews in view.…

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…

Two negative images. Library records state: "There are
2 distinct consecutive images on this one negative of "Old Boney Mountain" and surrounding chaparral.

Bust oval portrait of Edith Hobson as a girl. She is wearing a plaid dress and she is looking to the right of the camera.

Katherine Louise Hoffman as a young child of 5 or 6 standing in a dirt lane or road with a dog at her side. She is wearing a broad brimmed hat. Location is Rancho Casitas, her family ranch house.

Katherine Louise Hoffman as a young child of 5 or 6 astride a horse whose front legs are up on a rock. She is wearing a broad brimmed hat. Location is Rancho Casitas, her family ranch house.

Katherine Louise Hoffman as a child and Walter H. Hoffman, Jr. on horseback side by side at Rancho Casitas. They are in hats and wearing furry chaps, looking at the camera. Rancho Casitas house visible in the background.

View of Katherine Louis Hoffman as a young child and Walter H. Hoffman, Jr. riding horses at Rancho Casitas. View is of their backs and there is large barn on the left side of image.

Walter H. Hoffman, Jr. leads a small horse being ridden by Katherine Louise Hoffman, approximately 5 years old. They are at Rancho Casitas, barn prominent in background.

Katherine L. Hoffman drives a horse and wagon with Walter H. Hoffman, Jr. at her side. There is a stone wall behind them and a dirt road or path on the right of image. Location is Rancho Casitas.

Katherine Louise Hoffman stands on the right side of the image with a saddled horse next to her on her left. She is smiling at the camera. Walter H. Hoffman Jr. stands on the left side of the image looking toward Katherine.

Hoffman family Christmas photo, circa 1956, at Edith Hoffman's home on Lincoln Drive. Back row, L-R: Virginia Mae Haley, Katherine Hoffman Haley, Robert Grant Haley, Andrea Haley Pfister, Connie Bergin, Tom Bergin. Middle row, L-R: Unknown, Katherine…

Opening of new Thriftimart in Ventura's Marina Village. L-R: Robert Haley, Mrs. Walter Hoffman, Mrs. John Culbertson, Dick Bowman, Mayor Charles W. Petit, May Turner, Walter Hoffman, Mrs. Haley. Dick Bowman is cutting a ribbon with a giant scissor.…

Image shows pallbearers carrying casket of Edith Hoffman out of San Buenaventura Mission church. Image shows interior of church, pews filled with attendees, and Hoffman's family walking behind the casket.