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Pupils and teachers sitting in a circle at the Thacher School in Ojai

Snapshot of Snell's room at the Thacher School

Walter M. Jones house

Image shows the steamboat from the side angle. There smoke stack in the middle of the boat emitting black smoke. The boat also has two masts, for supplemental sails, one to the front and one to the rear of the boat. Passengers on the vessel are…

Bust portrait of Sol N. Sheridan, Jr. as a young man, looking to the left of the camera

Full portrait of Sol Sheridan, standing with a walking stick in one hand and leaning/resting an arm on an upholstered, fringed chair. Sol is wearing a suit and looking to the left of the viewer. The image has the number "2200" written on it, as well…

Snapshot of Main Street before it was paved. Photograph was taken from the direction of Ventura Avenue. The mission bell tower can be seen in the distance.

Image shows a boy sitting on of two huge squash. Squash are on Oak Street during the Ventura Street Fair of 1900. In the background are tall bleachers and a two story building.

Exterior view of a small adobe building with clay shingles. Succulents and other plants are growing around the building.

Museum records indicate that this building may have belonged to Dr. Cephas L. Bard or to Dr. Stephen Bowers and was used to…

Ship under repair on beach East of Ventura Pier. Pier or wharf is in background. Men are in the ship and standing around the ship.

A man dressed in a suit, tie and hat is sitting in the driver's seat of the Shaw's Soda Works delivery wagon. Two horses pull the wagon. "Acme Soda Works" is painted on the side of the driver's seat and "Mineral Waters" is painted on the side of the…

Seated portrait of Jose de La Rosa, posing with a cane and guitar. He was the first printer in California and died in Ventura at the age of nearly 102.

Schooner tied up at Ventura wharf

School class standing on front steps of school with some school administrators and/or teachers on top step. Back of photo reads:
"Harvey Rudolph"
"A. Rudolph-2nd from right, top row"
"Frank?"
"Holton Webb principal"

View of the Pacific Ocean. It depicts surf at the edge of the beach with waves rolling. "Brewster Ventura, Cal." is embossed on the brown cardstock to which the photo is mounted. There is a handwritten caption in white ink below the photo: "Old…

Charles Outland Collection, 1983

Exterior view of Santa Clara House, a two story hotel, with people standing and sitting on its front covered porch and on the second floor balcony. Two signs reading "Santa Clara House" are visible and two windows on the first floor read "Bakery."

Exterior view

Sepia-toned photograph of Hill School looking toward the Ventura
River. Prominent in the image is the San Buenaventura Mission Reservoir in the foreground, left. City of Ventura houses, buildings, and farmland visible in the top half of image.

View of back of San Buenaventura Mission, founded 1782, showing the grounds around the mission as well as some buildings in the city of Ventura. In the foreground is a wooden fence. Scene reaches out to the Pacific Ocean, visible in the top quarter…

Mounted early photograph of the San Buenaventura Mission and the house adjacent to it to the east. A man next to a horse drawn carriage are on the street next to the sidewalk. Mounted photograph.

San Antonio Creek and bridge, Ojai.

Bust portrait of Sam Stambaugh looking to the right of camera

Brown toned full portrait of Ruth Sudden, a young girl, with dog. Ruth has one hand on the dog and is facing the camera looking slightly right of the viewer. She wears a sailor style dress. To her right is an elaborately carved piece of furniture.