Captain Arnold Miller on Horseback
Miller, Arnold
Horsemanship
Hunting
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 Cold Springs Ranch - Ventura County, Calif."
Austin's Ventura
Alice Ruiz Collection, 1997
Museum of Ventura County
1935-08-31
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24 x 18 cm
Sepia photograph
English
Image
30442
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Beach Scene at Ventura Wharf
Beaches--Ventura--1910
Wharves--Ventura
Postcard titled "Beach Scene, Ventura, California" showing the Ventura Wharf in the background and a beach full of people, horses, a bicycle, carriages, a picnic bench, and a small lagoon. A handwritten note reads: "See inside the circle Pilie, Fannie, Jeannie, [smudged]" (not sure of the names) referring to the circle around a few seated figures. [Brakey, J.R., Ventura Calif. Published by Cardinal Vincent Co., San Francisco., made in Germany, 3611]
Brakey, J. R.
Museum of Ventura County
1910-05-05
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15 x 10 cm
Color postcard
English
Image
20789 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Stone Ditch, Built By The Indians Over 130 Years Ago, Ventura
Aqueducts--Circa 1915
Missions--San Buenaventura--Water System
An unidentified figure leans against a stone ditch with arms crossed. A horse stands several feet in front of the figure among low shrubs. A large oak tree stands to the left of the viewer, and another oak stands further back to the right. Hills are visible in the background behind the ditch.
[Brakey, John R., Ventura, Cal. (Polychrome Co., San Francisco, Cal.)]
Brakey, John R.
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Black and white postcard
15 x 10 cm
English
Image
20203 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Fourth of July Parade, 1890
Parades--California--Ventura
Birds eye view of a Fourth of July parade in Ventura. Horse-drawn carriages are followed by a procession of men. There are spectators on street and sidewalk. Writing crossed out at top of photo. Mrs. C. H. Whitney associated with this photo.
Brewster, John Calvin
Museum of Ventura County
1890-7-4
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Black and white photograph
21 x 13.3 cm
English
Image
2255
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Joe Horner in a Horse-Drawn Surrey at the Santa Susana Pass
Stagecoach lines
Santa Susana Pass
Stagecoaches
The Santa Susana Pass with Joe Horner in horse-drawn surrey. It is likely the old stage and mail coach line between Simi Valley and San Fernando Valley.
Brewster, John Calvin
Dana Teague Collection, 1988
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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11.5 x 18 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
15327
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Simi Valley (Calif.)
Garden and Inner Court, Rancho Camulos
Rancho Camulos (Calif.)
Horses
Horsemanship
A woman sits on a white horse. A man stands at her side and appears to be helping her. Another saddled horse stands next to them, and is being led by the man. Behind them is a white picket fence and two buildings on either side. Location according to library records is "garden and inner court, Rancho Camulos."
Brewster, John Calvin
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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20.8 x 25.4 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
1733
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Fillmore (Calif.)
Mounted Riders on Oak Street, Ventura
Horsemanship
Horses
Oak Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Three men ride their horses on a tree lined dirt road past residential homes. Street identified as Oak Street in Ventura, California.
Brewster, John Calvin
Museum of Ventura County
1895
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19 x 11.2 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
3532
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Old Time Hunting Party
Hunting
Portraits, Group
A group of young men who are posed by a campsite for the photo. An animal is visible on the ground in front of the men. Three of the men are wearing ammunition belts around their waists. The campsite is surrounded by trees. A wagon and several horses are visible in the background.
Brewster, John Calvin
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Sepia photograph
21.5 x 13.6 cm
Portrait, Group
English
Image
964
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
"Doc" Cody, Wells Fargo Agent on Oak Street
Wells, Fargo & Company
Horse-drawn vehicles
Oak Street (Ventura, Calif.)
A horse-drawn Wells Fargo and Company wagon is pictured parked at the side of a dirt street in front of a wooden house on Oak Street. A tree and palm are shown growing in the home's yard. "Doc" Cody, an agent of Wells Fargo is shown driving the wagon. He is bearded and wearing a suit and hat. Brewster's photography studio is visible to the right.
Library records indicate that this home was built by J. J. Sheridan.
Brewster, John Calvin
Museum of Ventura County
1890
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Sepia photograph
22.9 x 14 cm
English
Image
966
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Shaw's Soda Works
Soft drinks
Horse-drawn vehicles
Shaw, Floyd
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 wagon. The wagon is loaded with a wooden barrel and wooden boxes of glass bottles. "Drink Acme Soda" is painted on one of the boxes. A dog is standing in the street next to the wagon. There are buildings and trees in the background. Library records identify Floyd Shaw as the driver.
Brewster, John Calvin
Museum of Ventura County
1895
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Sepia photograph
21.5 x 9.6 cm
English
Image
990
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (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.)
Billie Wolfson Plowing Calleguas Rancho
Plowing
Agricultural Equipment
Mounted photo of Billie Wolfson. Caption reads "Wolfson - plowing Camarillo Ranch 1894." Wolfson stands on plowing equipment with teams of horses on both sides of him.
Crescent Photo Company
Camarillo Family Collection, 1990
Museum of Ventura County
1894-11-20
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12.8 x 18 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
17946
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Camarillo (Calif.)
Picking Oranges
Agriculture
Citrus Fruit
Oranges
An outer row of an orange orchard. White ladders with wheels at the bottom are secured to the ground with white wires as men stand on them, collecting oranges. They are at various heights, dressed in a variety of colors, but most, if not all, appear to be looking at the camera. On the ground is a cart loaded with crates of oranges. One man sits on the cart, behind a white two-horse team, and another two stand at the side of the cart. All three are looking into the camera. Next to the cart is a brown horse, hitched to an apparently empty cart.
[Detroit Publishing Co. ("Phostint" card), 70873]
Detroit Publishing Co.
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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15 x 10 cm
Color postcard
English
Image
20540 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
The Foothills Hotel, Nordhoff, Ojai Valley, Calif.
Ojai--Buildings--Hotels--Foothill
Landscape view of Foothills Hotel, Ojai. The three story Craftsman style building has a wood shingle exterior and a lushly landscaped campus. Flowering vines overhang the porches. Several horses wait outside the building at the head of its roundabout driveway. The hotel was built in 1904 and burned down in 1917. Nordhoff Ridge sprawls in the background.
Caption: "70887 THE FOOTHILLS HOTEL, NORDHOFF, OJAI VALLEY, CALIF."
[Detroit Publishing Co. ("Phostint" Card), 70887]
Detroit Publishing Co.
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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20543 PC
15 x 10 cm
Color postcard
English
Image
20072 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Horse Pulling Contest at Ventura County Fair
Horse pulling contests
Draft horses
Ventura County Fair (Ventura County, Calif.)
View of a two-horse team competing in a horse pulling contest at the Ventura County Fair. Five men are also in the photo, some may be judges. Photo taken for the Ventura County Star Free Press 21 Aug 1988, published 22 Aug 1988.
Gruber, Jack
Ventura County Star-Free Press, 1989
Museum of Ventura County
1988-08-21
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18 x 12.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
16496
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
The Rodeo or Round-Up
Horsemanship
Ranching
Drawing showing men on horseback, corralling cattle. Two men are in the center of the image. Man on left is holding a lasso and facing away from viewer, and is wearing a Mexican-style poncho. Man on right is shown wearing a jacket and bandana, and is pointing towards the background. Their horses appear in motion, as though reeling from being reigned in. Other men wielding lassos are visible in background, riding around groups of cattle.
Hilton, W. H. (Artist)
From <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Pictorial History of California</span>, edited and compiled by Owen C. Coy. Plate #88.
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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14439, 14440, 14441
Black and white drawing
English
Image
14442
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Carmelita Fitzgerald Nicholson on Horseback
Nicholson, Carmelita Fitzgerald
Camarillo White Horses
A photograph of Adolfo Camarillo's granddaughter, Carmelita Fitzgerald Nicholson posed on a Camarillo White Horse.
Miller, Jack
Jack Miller Collection, 1993
Museum of Ventura County
No date
Museum of Ventura County. All rights reserved.
27.7 x 35.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
26349
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Parade along C Street, Men on Horseback
Horsemanship
Parades
C Street (Oxnard, Calif.)
Four men on horseback smiling at the camera as they pass. No discernible logo or information of what organization they represent. Image taken in front of residential homes. Float for the Oxnard Chamber of Commerce parked near the sidewalk with young girls watching the men ride by.
Miller, Jack
Jack Miller Collection, 1993
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1920s
Museum of Ventura County. All rights reserved.
26499, 26500, 26501, 26502, 26503, 26505, 26507, 26508, 26509, 26510, 26511, 26512, 26513, 26514, 26515, 26516, 26517
10.0 x 13.0 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
26506
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (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.)
Ventura Street Fair Parade, 1900
Parade floats
Parades--California--Ventura
Fairs
Parade scene on Main Street in Ventura during the Ventura Street Fair, 1900. Storefronts and tents for fair vendors are visible behind large crowd watching the procession. Parade float passing crowd is pulled by two white horses. Six men dressed in white suits walk along the sides of the float. A woman dressed in a costume stands on the float.
Park & Rogers
Drapeau Family Collection, 1993
Museum of Ventura County
1900 October
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25992
Black and white photograph
12.5 x 20.4 cm (mounted)
English
Image
25991
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Ventura Street Fair Parade, 1900
Parade floats
Fairs
Parades--California--Ventura
Parade scene on Main Street in Ventura during the Ventura Street Fair, 1900. Storefronts and tents for fair vendors are visible behind large crowd watching the procession. Parade float passing crowd is pulled by two white horses. Six men dressed in white suits walk along the sides of the float. A woman dressed in a costume stands on the float.
Park & Rogers
Drapeau Family Collection, 1993
Museum of Ventura County
1900 October
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25991
Black and white photograph
12.5 x 20.4 cm (mounted)
English
Image
25992
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Mission Float, Street Fair
Fairs
Parades--California--Ventura
Parade floats
A horse drawn float with a man posing for the camera on the platform of the float. The float includes a replica mission with a child dressed in a priest costume standing in front. Small palm trees are also on the float. In the background of the picture women are standing with umbrellas. The photograph is slightly overexposed. Library records indicate that the driver is Chris Yeager.
Park and Rogers
Museum of Ventura County
1900 October
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Black and white photograph
20.5 x 12.5 cm
English
Image
814
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Patterson Ranch Scene
Patterson Ranch
Daily family
Agricultural laborers
Horse-drawn vehicles
Bird's eye view of numerous teams of horses pulling wagons or agricultural equipment surrounded by many barns. Men and teams are leaving the various barns for a day of work. In the foreground, in the buggy, are C. J. Daily and his son T. C. Daily.
Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Museum of Ventura County
1885-1895
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23 x 17 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
4001
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Camp Comfort, Near Ventura, Cal.
Parks--Camp Comfort--Circa 1910-1915
Parks--Ojai
A wagon drawn by two horses being driven under oak trees at Camp Comfort. One oak tree is in the foreground, to the viewer's left.
Caption: Camp Comfort, near Ventura, Cal.
[Rieder, M., Los Angeles, Cal., made in Germany, A75204]
Rieder, M.
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Color postcard
15 x 10 cm
English
Image
20131 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Nadine Webb with Camarillo White Horses
Webb, Nadine
Camarillo White Horses
Stables
Nadine Webb in a stable with two Camarillo White Horses.
Ventura County Star-Free Press taken 12 Oct 1988, published 16 Oct 1988.
Sayer, Victoria
1988
Museum of Ventura County
1988-10-12
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15824
12.7 x 18 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
15823
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Camarillo (Calif.)