Ventura in 1875, Post Card
Ventura--Streets--Main St.
Ventura--Views
Ventura in 1875, view of Main Street.
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, Cal. (Logo: Panama/California Exposition, San Diego, 1915; Slogan: "On the Road of a Thousand Wonders"), 3058; Al6490]
Brakey, J. R.
Museum of Ventura County
1875
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3067
15 x 10 cm
Color postcard
English
Image
20046 PC
California
Ojai (Calif.)
Street Scene, Ventura, 1908
Ventura--Buildings--Banks
Ventura--Buildings--City Hall
Ventura--Streets--Main St.
A street scene showing Main Street in Ventura, with bank on one corner and city hall in opposite corner at California Street.
[Rieder, M., Publ., Los Angeles. Made in Germany, 8119]
Rieder, M.
Museum of Ventura County
1908-11-15
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15 x 10 cm
Color postcard
English
Image
20050 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Entrance to Sulphur Mt. Springs Near Santa Paula
Health Resorts--Sulphur Mountain Springs
Sulphur Mountain Springs
A square wooden arch with Sulphur Mt. Springs in white on a black background. Above it is a smaller sign that says 'automobiles slow down'. The left-hand leg of the arch as two US flags, one above the other, and the right-hand leg has one, with a sign above it that says 'stage coach entrance'. The arch is over a road lined with trees and grass, and down the road are a group of people looking in the direction of the viewer. On the right a long brown building is visible through the trees.
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, Cal. (C.T. American Art), A-67982]
Brakey, J. R.
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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15 x 10 cm
Color postcard
English
Image
20511 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Santa Paula (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Children Playing in Oxnard's China Alley
Children
Allies
Buildings--houses
Eight children are seen playing on a dirt road in front of dilapidated houses in Oxnard's China Alley. This is looking from 8th St. toward 7th St. The children are sitting, standing and leaning against the houses. One child is holding the end of a long rope or pole.
Unknown
1984
Museum of Ventura County
1935
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11.3 x 14.7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
10677
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
La Conchita, Upper Part
La Conchita (Calif.)--Views
View of the upper part of La Conchita, Rincon, from Ojai and Surfside Streets. A house visible in the foreground on the right of photo.
Unknown
Jeff Ross Collection, 1990
Museum of Ventura County
1954
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Black and white photograph
English
Image
18392
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
People on Bicycles in front of Santa Clara House in Ventura
Hotels
Cyclists
Main Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Exterior shot of Santa Clara House hotel in Ventura with numerous men and women with bicycles, possibly a bicycle club, posing in front of it. Photo is taken of the front but slightly from the side, so that other buildings, possibly two hotels and one smaller building, are visible. Library records indicate photo may have been taken by the owner of the Santa Clara House hotel.
Unknown
Donated by: John Nichols, 1999
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1880s
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20.5 x 25.7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
31638
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Main Street Ventura Looking East, 1890
Main Street (Ventura, Calif.)
San Buenaventura Mission
Ayers Hotel (Ventura, Calif.)
Anacapa Hotel (Ventura, Calif.)
Supermarkets
Street view of Main Street in Ventura looking east down the center of the dirt street with businesses on the right and left visible. San Buenaventura Mission property is first on the left and next to it is the Anacapa Hotel, where a timber yard was previously. In foreground on right is a horse and buggy in front of Ayers Hotel. Photo depicts the California Market on right and looks East up street. Note that sidewalks are in. "Brewster Ventura California" writing on back advertises Brewster's Gallery on 105 0ak Street. Mounted on 21.5 x 13.3 cm dark brown cardboard.
Brewster, John Calvin
Grant Heil Estate, 2003
Museum of Ventura County
1890s
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19.8 x 11.6 cm
Sepia photograph
English
Image
35208
1880
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Old Buenaventura Mission, 1870s
San Buenaventura Mission
Main Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Exterior view of San Buenaventura Mission in the 1870s from across the street, which is a dirt road. Steps and a picket fence prominent in front of the mission, and a man leans against a pillar at the top of the steps. A plank sidewalk visible at bottom of photo. A caption added to bottom of photo states: "Old Mission in Seventies."
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
1870s
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15.2 x 10.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
253
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Rose Hotel
Hotels
Exterior view of the Rose Hotel, or Hotel Rose, taken from diagonally opposite corner across the street. It is a three story building on a corner with the front entrance facing the intersection. Buildings, possibly houses, are visible next to and behind the hotel.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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11 x 15.3 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
266
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Takako Takasugi Funeral Procession
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Japanese Cemetery (Oxnard, Calif.)
Takasugi family
This is an exterior photo of several automobiles lined up as part of a funeral procession for Takako Takasugi. The photo shows the exterior street view of the Japanese Cemetery in Oxnard, California.
The Arnolds
Nao and Judy Takasugi Collection, 1994
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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20.5 x 25.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
27909
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Akiko Tagami Funeral Procession
Tagami, Akiko
Japanese Cemetery (Oxnard, Calif.)
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Tagami family
This is an exterior photo of several automobiles lined up as part of a funeral procession for Akiko Tagami. Aiko died from accidental poisoning as a one-year-old. The photo shows the exterior street view of the Japanese Cemetery in Oxnard, California.
Unknown
Kato Family Collection, 1995
Museum of Ventura County
1918
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28242
20.3 x 25.4 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
28243
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
T. Otani Store
Oxnard Boulevard (Oxnard, Calif.)
Supermarkets
Stables
Exterior street view of the T. Otani grocery store. The automobile on the street is being driven by Tokutaro Moriwaki. The neighboring front exterior reads: W. E. Kelley's I-X-L Livery, Boarding, and Sales Stable can also be seen. An advertising sign for Tom Keene Cigar is visible.
T. Otani Store address: 620 Oxnard Blvd. Oxnard.
Unknown
Moriwaki Family Collection, 1994
Museum of Ventura County
1920
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20.3 x 25.4 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
27415
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Meta Street, Ventura, 1900
Meta Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)--Views
Street view of residential homes, businesses, sidewalks on either side of the street, utility poles, and Meta Street in foreground. Street appears to be unpaved.
Unknown
Gift of: John Nichols, 2017
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1900
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Black and white photograph
English
Image
41632 OS
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
A. Ruiz Liquor Store
Liquor stores
Restaurants
Storefronts
Mounted group photograph of "Uncle Arturo's Liquor store" with many people standing along the sidewalk in front of the liquor store that reads "A. Ruiz" on a sign above the door. "Uncle Tomas" drives a horse drawn buggy parked in front of the store. The sign at the top of store advertises "Fine brands of Whiskies for Family and Medical use." The shields on either side of the entry advertise Maier & Zobelien Lager Beer. Next door to the liquor store is the United States Restaurant and advertised meals for 25 cents.
Garden City Photo Co. (San Jose, Calif.)
Alice Ruiz Collection, 1997
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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12 x 19.3 cm
Sepia photograph
English
Image
30448
California
Main and California Streets, Ventura, California 1875
Main Street (Ventura, Calif.)
California Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)--Views
View of Main and California Streets in downtown Ventura at the corner of California Street looking east, circa 1875. Some businesses are visible on either side of the dirt road running through center of photo.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1875
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33.1 x 21.7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
963 OS
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
First Car Owned by Ventura County Sheriff
Automobiles
Sheriffs
Government employees
Four men sit in a car parked on Santa Clara Street in front of the first county courthouse. From image caption, lower left: "First Car Owned by Ventura County Sheriff-- 1906 Stevens Durea-- Left to Right: Dick Hayden, Undersheriff; Bill McGlinchey, Constable; Ed Mercer, Chauffeur; E. G. McMartin, Sheriff--Photographed at Ventura Court House on Santa Clara Street."
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1910
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27.2 x 34 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
5970 OS
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Mail and Freight on a Mule Drawn Wagon
Delivery of goods
Mules
Wagons
Storefronts
A wagon filled to the brim with mail and freight waiting to be driven away a team of four mules on a road in front of a blacksmiths shop. A man is in the drivers seat and four other men are visible behind the wagon at the right of the image. According to library records, the shop is Wood Brothers Blacksmith Shop.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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16.5 x 11 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
3790
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Carnegie Library Exterior Shortly After Completion, 1907
Libraries
Oxnard (Calif.)--Views
Historic buildings
Exterior, bird's eye view of the Carnegie Library in Oxnard just after its construction in 1907. Houses and buildings are in view next to and behind the library as well as intersected roads at bottom of the image.
Unknown
Madeline Miedema Collection, 1991
Museum of Ventura County
1907
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18 x 12.7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
19953
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Bank of Ventura 1892
Bank of Ventura
Banks and banking
Main Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Oak Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Storefronts
Exterior street view of the Bank of Ventura upon completion in March 1892 (corner of Oak and Main Streets in Ventura) with a view of Oak Street running alongside it on the left of image. Some horse drawn wagons and carts can be seen on Oak Street and children and men are on the sidewalk in front of the Bank. Some business signs that are discernible include "J.C. Brewster" (photography studio) on Oak Street and "Stair Bros. Dentists" on the top floor of the bank building.
Handwriting on photograph reads:
"Bank of Ventura Main & Oak - Built in 1891-2 - Demolished Sept. 1923
Bank of Italy built on the site and opened June 29th, 1924."
Brewster, John Calvin
Museum of Ventura County
1892 March
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19.7 x 11 cm
Sepia photograph
English
Image
3525
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Clown on Santa Clara Street in Ventura
Clowns
Mules
Santa Clara Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Plaza School (Ventura, Calif.)
A clown in a striped and starred costume with a ruffled neck stands in front of his mule, who is also dressed festively. They stand on Santa Clara Street in Ventura with Plaza School in the background on the right of the image. Photo is from the Pansy Brewster photo album.
Brewster, John Calvin
Dana Teague Collection, 1988
Museum of Ventura County
1900
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Portrait, Full
12.5 x 13 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
14378
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Old Creek Road
Old Creek Road (Ventura, Calif.)
Roads
Horse-drawn vehicles
A landscape view of Old Creek Road. A dirt road is seen cutting through a field with trees on either side of the road. A vehicle that appears to be a horse drawn wagon is driving down the road.
Brewster, John Calvin
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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11 x 18 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
5049
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Old Creek Road
Old Creek Road (Ventura, Calif.)
Landscape view of Old Creek Road. Trees line either side of a dirt road. A woman and a child are holding hands and walking away from the viewer.
Unknown
Charles Outland Collection, 1983
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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18 x 11.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
9131
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Dingman Family at Foster Park, Ventura
Dingman, Waldo Henry, Sr., 1872-1955
Dingman family
Picnics
Foster Park (Ventura County, Calif.)
W. H. Dingman and family sit at a picnic bench under a very large tree at Foster Park in Ventura, CA. There are two women, a man, and a boy looking at the viewer. A convertible or open car is on the left of the image, parked in the grass.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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13.5 x 17 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
394
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
San Buenaventura Mission and Old Chinatown
San Buenaventura Mission
Figueroa Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Chinatown (Ventura, Calif.)
View of the San Buenaventura Mission and Chinatown buildings along Figueroa Street. Photograph is taken from Santa Clara Street. A long dirt road leads up to the Mission with a row of buildings along one side and a fence with trees on the other side.
Unknown
LACM Collection, 1990
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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3039
12.5 x 15.8 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
17729
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Street Scene, Hueneme, 1895
Business enterprises
Hueneme (Calif.)
Horse-drawn vehicles
Wagons
Glossy photocopy of "Street Scene Hueneme 1895. M. E. Church and School in background". Busy scene showing men on horseback and horses pulling large wagons of cargo through Hueneme. Smaller wagons and horses also visible in dirt street, parked in front of businesses. Many buildings visible.
Writing on one side of a building reads, some words cut off:
"W. P. Fuller and Co's Pure Pre----absolutely pure lead, zinc and-----best paint on E.----manufactured by W.P. Fuller. For sale only by our--Gilger & Waterman."
Other visible advertising or store signs read "Red Seal Baking Powder"; "Gilger & Waterman Gen'l Merchandise and Produce"; "Hueneme Market"; "Saloon".
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
1895
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18 x 11 cm
Black and white photograph
Black and white negative
English
Image
1021 NP
4026
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Port Hueneme (Calif.)