Olivas Adobe Grape Trellis
Climbing plants
Grapes
Trellises
Olivas Adobe (Ventura, Calif.)
A glass plate negative of a woman standing under a grape trellis at the Olivas Adobe. A pet deer is visible standing next to the woman. Ripe grapes are visible hanging in the foreground.
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Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Glass plate negative
English
Image
gp360
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Hunting Near Fillmore
Hunting
Hunting scene showing five men with rifles and what appear to be two deer and a cougar on a hanging rack. Caption on bottom right of photo: "A day's sport near Fillmore, California."
[Newman Post Card Co., Los Angeles, Cal., made in Germany for Richard Stephens, Fillmore, Cal.]
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Museum of Ventura County
No date
The copyright to this image has not been determined. These images are intended for personal or research use only. Please contact library staff for rights determinations and additional uses.
15 x 10 cm
Black and white postcard
English
Image
21534 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Fillmore (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Keene Reel 6: Family Gathering Footage
Animal feeding
Farmyards
Lions
Zoos
Skateboarding
Black-and-white footage of a family gathering, featuring men and mostly women of a variety of ages, along with occasional footage of orchards, a shooting range, and a chicken farm.
The footage opens with a gathering of men and women in formal clothing, standing in a field and, later, in front of a home. They play with a dog, pose before cars, throw small balls or fruit to each other, and wash a baby in a birdbath. Some of these family members later visit a zoo (possibly Goebel's Jungleland in Thousand Oaks), and feed an African lion cub and deer. Two young children embrace an elderly woman, two others stand in uniforms (one perhaps a Boy Scout), and several other children ride what look like early skateboards downhill, seated. Elsewhere, a young man fires a pistol at a board, and another man examines a tree in an orchard. The footage closes with several farmworkers loading crates of chickens onto a wagon.
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Herman Keene Collection, 2021
Funding support for the digitization of this material was generously provided by The Schwemm Family Foundation.
Accession No.: 2021-1
Museum of Ventura County
1900-1940
The copyright to this film has not been determined. These images are intended for personal or research use only. Please contact library staff for rights determinations and additional uses.
Black and White Film
Home Movie
13 min., 31 sec.
English
Image
2021-1.6 AV <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/t1hc5m2zmhuugc7/2021-1.6AV.mp4?dl=0">(Keene Reel 6)</a>
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Thousand Oaks (Calif.)
Keene Reel 8, Mountain Life and Fishing
Mountain life
Horses
Camping
Boats and boating
Fishing
Black-and-white, with some sepia, footage of different scenes, some disturbing and graphic, that mainly include wilderness, mountains, camping, and fishing.
Man and pack horse walking up steep trail; Woman stalking deer in brush; Giant pine trees; Man walking through boulders; Body of young man in casket at funeral home; Two men at a gravesite under a tent that reads "Bardsdale"; Parade walkers with sign that reads "Junior Auxiliary Unit 48"; Keene posing with car; Man leading horse down steep path on sheer cliff, appears to duplicate other footage; Two men rolling a mesh or screen contraption that is about 18" in diameter and 6 feet long with a bicycle tire under it in the middle; Wilderness clearing; Car driving below snowy hillside; Horse tied up outside cabin in snow, man walking out of cabin and splitting firewood; Indiscernible upside down and reversed footage; Housecat walking through yard and drinking milk; Man carrying box in outdoors; Car driving down busy street with horse tied to it, running alongside; Exterior of white house with large columns, man leading horse through yard, with footage of the horse's feet; Deer in a field; dilapidated or burned cabin; Man exiting car next to large sign on roadsite that reads "No Smoking Beyond This Point, Ord. No 201"; Sign with woods beyond that reads "Camp and Picnic Fires Permitted Only at Designated Camp Grounds", camera pans to show wooden fencing and metal gate; Camp site with two cars, small table, women in background and cooking holding small child; Man walking through tall grass and scanning the ground; Pile of tires in front of theater with sign advertising Shirley Temple and Baby Face Harrington, people gathered around truck with sign that reads "Good Year Tires", children and women lined up with tires, turning them in to men at truck; Upside down footage of cabin; Dog running into woods; Panorama of valley; Cabin or animal pen; Large birds circling in the sky; Backwards, upside down footage of rattlesnake; Same young man in coffin, same scene in cemetery; Footage of wilderness, panorama of hillsides, possibly Piedra Blanca; Five horses and six people in the yard of a large white house, then riding away; Large body of water at bottom of steep hillside; Group of people inspecting something in rocks at ocean; Sepia footage of wilderness, out of focus; Man and boy walking through brush, pulling a cart or trailer out of the brush; Fishing boat, large fish carcasses, one being lifted with a hoist; Men transferring wooden crates or fishing pots into small boat at pier; Yard scene, with two girls, two horses, a boy, and dogs; Man walking onto platform, inspecting field with trees and tall grass; Keene lifting leg of pack horse; Two men talking next to car with train in background; Two dogs in woods; Fishing boat, men in boat, birds flying above water; Cliffs; Three small row boats, two larger boats on water; Man walking up steep hill with boulders; Man standing on bowsprit of boat, holding long ploe in the water, possibly spearing something; Group of people fishing with rods from boat; Confused footage of man on bowsprit spearing animal with large dorsal fin; Same building that is either animal pen or cabin; Man and horse walking up steep trail.
Unknown
Herman Keene Collection, 2021
Funding support for the digitization of this material was generously provided by The Schwemm Family Foundation.
Accession No.: 2021-1
Museum of Ventura County
No date
The copyright to this film has not been determined. These images are intended for personal or research use only. Please contact library staff for rights determinations and additional uses.
Black and White Film
Sepia Film
Home Movie
15 min., 8 sec.
English
Image
2021-1.8 AV <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/u5q9ttet2mus2hr/2021-1.8AV.mp4?dl=0">(Keene Reel 8)</a>
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Keene Reel 13, Panning for Gold and Gatherings
Gold panning
San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.)
Boy Scouts
Santa Paula Airport
Young men
Japanese men
Airplanes
Snakes
Trapping
Hunting
Picnics
Black-and-white footage, some disturbing and graphic, of people panning for gold, trapped animals, and gatherings both large and small.
People panning for gold on Lena Frazer’s property (San Francisquito Canyon); Roaring river; Trapping and capturing a snake; Footage of a gathering for young men where men and women of various ages are greeting each other and laughing and posing for photos together (one group of men appear to be Japanese as one man wears a sweater that says "Nippon"); airport footage of people gathered and planes taking off (Santa Paula Airport); Damaged bridge over water with two men walking on it; Large Boy Scout gathering where most of the boys are holding hiking sticks; Kitten playing on taxidermized mountain lion; Large lizard in box with snake; Trapped deer shot at close range; man moving dead deer; dark footage of snake in a box; Trapped bobcat being hit with stick; Closeup footage of men, women, and children talking and eating at a formal picnic gathering in a wooded setting with many picnic tables; Picnic attendees gather and sit around some steps and pose for portraits and chat.
Unknown
Herman Keene Collection, 2021
Funding support for the digitization of this material was generously provided by The Schwemm Family Foundation.
Accession No.: 2021-1
Museum of Ventura County
No date
The copyright to this film has not been determined. These images are intended for personal or research use only. Please contact library staff for rights determinations and additional uses.
Black and White Film
Home Movie
15 min., 31 sec.
English
Image
2021-1.13 AV <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/gls3xg5rd4li683/2021-1.13AV.mp4?dl=0">(Keene Reel 13)</a>
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Santa Paula (Calif.)
Keene Reel 19, Hunting and Trapping, Animals, and Animal Carcass Footage
Hides and skins
Animal carcasses
Mountain life
Hunting
Trapping
Captive wild animals
Lion
Keene, Herman, 1878-1965
Black-and-white footage, some disturbing and graphic, mainly of hunting and trapping, animal carcasses, captive wild animals, and mountain scenes.
Keene outside of a cabin covered in skins; High cliffs; Keene examines the leg of a horse with a mountain lion carcass on its back; Keene walks into a cabin on a snowy day; Keene walks with an animal trap under one arm; Snakes in a trap (footage upside down); Snakes in enclosure; Mountain scenery; Man leading horse with a load on its back up a mountain; Forest scenery; A mountain lion carcass hangs upside down with arrows in its side while Keene looks at it; A horse with mountain lion carcass on back; Two snakes in a trap; A bobcat and a jaguar in separate cages with a rodent running around that the jaguar catches; Keene and another man lead horses; Keene posing with flat dead condor; Deer carcasses; Woodpeckers mounted outdoors on a tree; Taxidermized birds set up on ground; Keene catching a snake; Rattlesnake closeup; Taxidermized mountain lion on lawn; Three African lions in cage with trainer (Goebel's); Keene removing dead condor from bag; Mountain lion running away; Kittens and cats; Mountain scenery and Keene leading horses through wilderness; Men examine mountain lion carcass; Men rolling a large basket up a hill behind a man on horseback; Two men examine a mountain lion carcass with arrows in its side hanging upside down from a tree; African lions perform in a cage with trainer (Goebel's); Exterior shot of a structure in a field; Group of men petting and feeding deer; Two men talk next to a car and two horses; Cat running; Group of people in tent at campground; Snake being poked with stick (video upside down); Keene holding a snake upside down; Men sitting next to a cabin; Keene holds snake to the ground and makes cutting motions under its jaw; Man arrives on a farm with a horse-drawn cart; Campground scene near a waterfall with wild boar hanging from tree; Men on horseback leading horses; Keene trapping snakes; Rattlesnake with rope tied around it.
Unknown
Herman Keene Collection, 2021
Funding support for the digitization of this material was generously provided by The Schwemm Family Foundation.
Accession No.: 2021-1
Museum of Ventura County
No date
The copyright to this film has not been determined. These images are intended for personal or research use only. Please contact library staff for rights determinations and additional uses.
Black and White Film
Home Movie
13 min., 29 sec.
English
Image
2021-1.19 AV <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/uwyei1cxya36ngg/2021-1.19AV.mp4?dl=0">(Keene Reel 19)</a>
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Thousand Oaks (Calif.)