Harvesting Scene, Combined Header and Thresher
Agricultural machinery
Agriculture--Wheat
Horses--Circa 1910
A harvesting scene reading "Harvesting Scene, Combined Header and Thresher" across the top of postcard shows several men on the equipment being pulled by a team of horses and/or mules that number approximately 30.
[Mitchell, Edward H., San Francisco, California, 532]
Mitchell, Edward H.
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1910
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15 x 10 cm
Color postcard
English
Image
21247 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
J. M. Montgomery 16 Mule Plow Team, Ventura, Cal.
Agriculture
Mules
Ventura--Buildings--Banks
Side view of an sixteen mule drive team on an unpaved street in front of a corner block of stoneface buildings. A three story bank sits prominantly in the background. Several figures tend to the mules on the right side.
Caption: "J.P. Montgomery 16-Mule Plow Team, Ventura, Cal."
Verso caption: "Main and Oak St Ventura, S.W. Corner"
Verso script: "Putting down first paving petrolithic (oil + dirt). Got caught in rainy season. Streets plowed up..."
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, Cal.]
Brakey, J. R.
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1908
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15 x 10 cm
Black and white postcard
English
Image
20032 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Livery Team at Camp Comfort
Camp Comfort (Ojai, Calif.)
Carriages and carts
Mules
Mounted photograph featuring a landscape view of Camp Comfort in Ojai, Calif. A livery team of two mules and a cart are standing in a clearing between trees. Sunlight is streaming through the trees onto the ground.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1905-1910
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11 x 19 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
7338
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Loading Limoneira Lemons
Delivery of goods
Lemon
Freight cars
Wagons
Mules
Agricultural laborers
Mule drawn wagons loaded with lemons from Limoneira Ranch line up alongside boxcars. Men are seen on the wagons holding on to crates they will be loading. One of the boxcars reads "Ventilated Refrigerator" along the side. Refrigerated car on the right of image reads "Pacific Fruit Express." Caption on bottom of photo reads "Loading Limoneira Lemons."
Unknown
1985
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1907
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16.3 x 12.8 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
11727
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Santa Paula (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.)
Mound Threshing Company
Threshing machines
Agricultural laborers
Farming
Mound Threshing Company workers in the field with harvest. Scene shows threshing equipment, wagons, mules, horses, sacks and mounds of hay or straw. Workers stand or sit and face camera for the photo.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Panorama
79 x 20.2 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
30317 OS
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Mule and Horse Teams Hauling Grain Sacks
Wagons
Grain
Agriculture
Horses
Mules
Mule and horse teams haul wagons loaded with grain sacks. Teams are lined up along a street in front of a warehouse with huge stacks of grain sacks piled up in front of it. A group of men in the photo look at the viewer. Museum records suggest image is possibly for the Ventura County Fair.
Lohn, A. W.
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1890
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19.3 x 12 cm
Sepia photograph
English
Image
2304
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Port Hueneme (Calif.)
Stockton Plow
Plows
Agricultural machinery
Mules
Horses
A man drives a team of mules and/or horses on the Hartman Ranch. Wendell P. Daily water well in the background. Hartman Ranch located where city hall is located in Camarillo (city hall is at 601 Carmen Dr. in Camarillo, 2002).
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Black and white photograph
English
Image
4182
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Camarillo (Calif.)
Stone Ditch, Built by the Indians Over 130 Years Ago, Ventura, Cal
Aqueducts
Historic Sites--Ventura County
Missions--San Buenaventura--Water System
Landscape image of a heavily weathered cobblestone retaining wall for an aqueduct. A figure stands atop some of the stones, in front of a horse dressed in a work harness for pulling. There is a path cut through the wall, as if for a road. A large oak tree is in the foreground to the left, with a hillside and more oaks in the background.
Caption: "Stone Ditch, Built by the Indians over 130 years ago Vertura (sic), Cal. 854."
Verso text: Handwritten in pencil, "Remains of Mission ducts in CaƱada Larga, taken about 1930 perhaps."
[Mitchell, Edward H., San Francisco, Cal., 854]
Mitchell, Edward H.
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1930
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15 x 10 cm
Sepia postcard
English
Image
20036 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Ojai (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.)
The Bean Threshing Company
Lima bean
Threshing
Agricultural laborers
Threshing machines
Panoramic group photo of agricultural workers, labeled "The Bean Threshing Company." Scene shows workers out in the field with threshing equipment, sacks, mounds of hay or straw, and horse or mule drawn wagons.
Unknown
Knights of Columbus Council no. 750 Collection, 1997
Museum of Ventura County
1906
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Panorama
79 x 20.2 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
30318 OS
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Threshing Beans in Saticoy
Threshing
Lima bean
Agricultural laborers
Threshing machines
Scene showing agricultural equipment being used to thresh beans in Saticoy, CA. Men and horses or mules with carts are also visible.
Brewster, John Calvin
1989
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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17 x 9.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
17234
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Saticoy (Calif.)
Workers in Lima Bean Fields, Santa Paula
Threshing machines
Lima bean
Agricultural laborers
Farming
Farmers
Sepia toned outdoor farming scene with men, threshing machinery, horses and wagons. Photograph is "rippled" from being glued to a backing. "Thermal Belt Thrashing Company operating in the Lima Bean fields near SantaPaula,Cal." "Photo#676 S.U. Bunnell, 45 Stevenson Ave. Pasadena." On back of photograph is the following: "This photo-copy by Studio of J. Allen Hawkins, Commercial Photographs 1055 E. Walnut St. Pasadena, Calif. 792-5068, 792-1087." C: early 1920's.
Bunnell, S. U.
2008
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1920s
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Panorama
102.6 x 17.5 cm
Sepia photograph
English
Image
38429 OS
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Santa Paula (Calif.)