Candy Cane Lane scene. Woman holding a small child in front of a decorated window. Ventura County Star-Free Press photo taken 14 Dec 1986, published 15 Dec 1986.
Group photo of eight men at work drying apricots on Canet Ranch on "The Avenue" in Ventura. The Avenue refers to Ventura Ave. Five men sit in front of a shed, while stand near apricot drying trays. Some trays are stacked and others are laid out for…
Map showing survey of a part of the Southerly boundary line of lands of the Canet Company as per Book 148 of Deeds at page 63. Part of Lot 11, Tract C, Rancho Canada Larga. Shows portions of Ventura Avenue and Canada Larga Road. Shows lands belonging…
View of houses adjacent to the coastline in Ventura. Canet house is on the right, other houses in the background on left. Coastline and beach in the foreground. Bottom of photo reads "Maison Canet Ventura sur mer."
View of a crowd standing around a cannon on May Day. The cannon is pointed towards the right of the image. Leon Harthorn is lighting the fuse of the cannon. Harthorn is wearing a top hat and dark suit. Vehicles and palm trees visible in background.…
Grey pencil drawing of capacity of existing wood flume and 12" steel pipe from a small dam above proposed dam, El Rancho Cola. Shows pipeline from reservoir.
Captain Arnold Miller on horseback. Miller is carrying a rifle in one hand and holding horse's reins in the other and is looking into the camera. Photo caption reads: Aug. 31st 1935. Capt. Arnold Miller. 101 yrs. old. Starts on a lion hunt Hartman's…
Full portrait of Captain Howard E. Marsh, California Highway Patrol, Ventura. He stands beside a motorcycle with a stretch of road and a hill or mountain in the background. He wears his uniform and smiles at the viewer.
3/4 portrait of Captain Richard Robinson. Robinson is looking to the viewer's left and standing while holding the back of an ornate chair with his right hand. He is wearing a dark suit and has short hair and a medium length beard.
Shows parked car with doors open and trunk filled with surfboards and a wooden cart. Boards and cart appear to be strapped down, with small flags affixed to one of the boards. Museum records indicate that the car was packed for a surf trip to Puerto…
Close-up of car parked at the Ventura County Fair, Seaside Park, Oct. 9-13, 1940. Car has a megaphone attached to top of car reading "Ralph S. Weigle Ventura."
Open car driving on the bridge over the Ventura River near Casitas Pass. Appears to be one woman and two or three men, with trees and mountains in background.
Rincon, east of causeway looking west, possibly showing the aftermath of storm in 1916. Causeway looks partially eroded in foreground and there is a wheelbarrow with equipment in it, perhaps for storm cleanup. There are people on the causeway near…
Portrait of Carl A. Brown in his World War II military uniform standing on the cowling of a C-18 aircraft. Brown is leaning to one side with his arm resting on his leg. The front of the airplane including two propellers and the cockpit can be seen.…
Exterior view taken from across the street of Carl & Blanche Wallace's home at 755 E. Santa Clara St., circa 1926.
(The telephone office was located there in later years).
Oval portrait bust of Carlos Maria Ruiz in a dark colored suit looking straight ahead with a straightened posture. Carlos Maria Ruiz is the oldest brother of Gabriel Ruiz and was born on November 4, 1799 in Santa Barbara.