Gospel or Chapel Railroad Car
Railroad passenger cars
Chapels
Chapel car packed full of travelling evangelists. A large group of people, including many children, gather in front of the chapel car. The chapel car has a sign advertising times for church services for children and Sunday meetings.
Unknown
1983
Museum of Ventura County
1895-1913
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15.5 x 12.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
9062
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Santa Paula (Calif.)
California Street Facing Pier
California Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Piers--California--Ventura
View facing south on California Street from the Court House. The pier is in the far distance and cars parked in front of businesses as well as in motion on the street are present. A woman with a can is crossing California Street.
Unknown
Pleasant Valley Historical Society, 2015
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1940s
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Black and white photograph
15 x 9 cm
English
Image
40692-15
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Main and Oak Streets, Ventura
Main Street (Ventura, Calif.)
View of Main Street in Ventura from the corner of Main and Oak Streets facing west. Bank of Ventura on left side of photo and horses and carriages are parked on the street. Bottom of photo captioned "Main Street Ventura."
Brewster, John Calvin
Museum of Ventura County
1896
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Sepia photograph
English
Image
1118
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Home's Bakery and Lohn's Photograph Gallery
Business enterprises--California--Ventura County
Front view of Home Bakery, Lohn's Photograph Gallery, and a millinery store, with three women and a little girl standing in front.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Sepia photograph
13.5 x 21.5 cm
English
Image
1339
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Main Street, Ventura, 1930
Main Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Business enterprises--California--Ventura
View of stores on Main Street in Ventura from the South side of the street between Palm and Oak Streets. Ventura Department Store and Chaffee's Shoes storefront signs are visible. Cars are parked in the street and people are visible on sidewalk.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
1930
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Black and white photograph
18 x 24.1 cm
English
Image
1415
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Main Street Near Figueroa Street, Ventura, 1877
Main Street (Ventura, Calif.)
Business enterprises--California--Ventura
Men lined up along the sidewalk in front of businesses on Main Street near Figueroa Street in Ventura, south side. The Signal Newspaper office and Justice of the Peace Court were in these buildings. Typed writing near bottom left corner of photo states: "200 Block, Main St."
Brewster, John Calvin
Museum of Ventura County
1877
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Black and white photograph
20.5 x 18 cm
English
Image
3028
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Main Street, Ventura, 1875
Main Street (Ventura, Calif.)
View of Main Street, Ventura, looking west from the library. A horse and delivery wagon? are on the left side of photo and houses and business line Main Street, which is a dirt road.
Photo number 6129 has "Ventura 1875" printed along the bottom.
Unknown
Brakey Fourt Collection [6129]
Museum of Ventura County
1875
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20046 PC
21.5 x 12.4 cm
18 x 12.8 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
3067
6129
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Group Photo at Pacific Gasoline Company
Gas power plants
Portraits, Group
Men--California--Portraits
Group photograph of the Pacific Gasoline Company's Ventura plant. Their main office was in Los Angeles (700 Calif. Bank Bldg. Los Angeles, Cal.). Men are in front of some pipes out in a field near some buildings and equipment behind a sign.
C.G. Duffey Photo (Long Beach)
1988
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Panorama
20.2 x 99.4 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
15486 OS
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
San Buenaventura City Hall Sign Photograph Taken Before Replacing Ventura County Courthouse Signage
Ventura County Courthouse (1913-1968)
City halls
Photograph taken as the signage outside the Ventura County Courthouse was changed to indicate it was now the San Buenaventura City Hall. A group of people in hard hats hold the sign on the steps of the court house.
Unknown
J. Kelly Collection, 1988
Museum of Ventura County
1972 August
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12.7 x 13.3 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
15642
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Main Street Looking West, Ventura
Ventura--Buildings--Hotels--Baldwin
Ventura--Buildings--Hotels--Hotel De Leon
Ventura--Streets--Main St.
View looking down Main Street. There are buildings on either side of the street, and cars are parked along the street. Postcard looks illustrated. Hotel Baldwin and Hotel DeLeon visible. Caption at top reads: "1202:- Main Street Looking West, Ventura, Calif." Caption at bottom reads: "'The Poinsettia City.'"
[Kashower, M. Co., Los Angeles, California, 31726 & 1202]
Kashower, M. Co.
Museum of Ventura County
1932-04-22
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15 x 10 cm
Color postcard
15 x 10 cm
English
Image
20350 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Main Street, Ventura
Ventura--Buildings--Commercial
Ventura--Streets--Main St.
View looking down Main Street at Oak Street. There are buildings on both sides of the street. Cars are parked on the streets. The building signs are visible in the image, including Rexall Drugs and F. W. Woolworth Company.
[Roberts, Mike Natural Color, Berkeley, Calif. (Published for Schultze News Co., Ventura,California), C7962]
Roberts, Mike
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1950s
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15 x 10 cm
Color postcard
English
Image
20365 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Soper's Ranch House and Service Station on New Maricopa Road in Matilija Canyon
Ranches--Soper's
Road Scenes
Roads--Maricopa Highway/Road
A car is pulled up to a service station pump. Above it is a sign reading "Fredricksburg Beer" on the left half and "Soper's Ranch Cafe & Cottages" on the right. A shack sits to the right of the pumping station with a sign on top that says "Cottages for Rent" with an ad for Budweiser beer beneath it. Behind it is a long, nondescript building. In the background are oak trees and mountaintops.
[Albertype Co. (Post Cards of Quality) Brooklyn, N.Y.]
Albertype Co.
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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15 x 10 cm
Black and white postcard
English
Image
20649 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Oxnard, California Postcard
Oxnard--Buildings--Commerical
Oxnard--Streets
A view down a busy commercial street, possibly "A" Street, lined with mid-century cars. On the left side is a J.C. Penney's (visibly named) in yellow. The next buildings are brown with illegible signs, though at the further end there is a blue sign protruding from the building that says "Kit's" and signs behind it announcing "Sporting" and "Shoes". Behind them, in white, is a theater. The right hand side of the street is a brown corner building with a blue sign that says "Oxnard Savings [illegible] 4". Further down the street is a red sign that says "Real Estate" and a "Dien[m?]ers" in white on the side of a building.
[Columbia Wholesale Supply, 11401 Chandler, North Hollywood, Calif., H1299 & 56616]
Columbia Wholesale Supply
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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15 x 10 cm
Color postcard
English
Image
20654 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Smallest Post Office, Wheeler Springs
Wheeler Springs (inhabited place)
Postal Service--Wheeler Springs
Black and white photograph showing "U.S.A's Smallest Post Office" in Wheeler Springs, CA. The small building is surrounded by flowers, plants and trees.
[No publisher stated, B1041]
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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10 x 15 cm
Black and white postcard
English
Image
20699 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Wheeler Springs (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Drug Store, Stage Office, and Catholic Church, Camarillo
Camarillo--Buildings--Commercial
Camarillo--Views--Circa 1925-30
View of a street lined with Camarillo businesses such as a mercantile company, drug store, and two cafes (one labeled Conejo Inn). An Associated Gasoline billboard is visible. St. Mary Magdalen, a Catholic church, is prominent in the background. Many cars line the street. "Drug Store, Stage Office, and Catholic Church, Camarillo, Cal." is handwritten along bottom of postcard.
[No publisher stated; NOKO in stamp area]
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1925-1930
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15 x 10 cm
Black and white postcard
English
Image
21673 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Camarillo (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
United States Naval Air Missile Test Center, Point Mugu
Point Mugu
United States Naval Air Missile Test Center
Guard booth at the entrance to United States Naval Air Missile Test Center, Point Magu. There is a guard/sentry station with two notices on the outside. One reads "Dim Lights for Sentry" an the other reads "REMEMBER What You SEE Here What You DO Here What You HEAR Here When You LEAVE Here LET IT STAY HERE" A man dressed in a naval uniform and a guard stand at a car's open trunk on the right.
[Columbia Wholesale Supply, Hollywood, Calif., H1315; 19637]
Columbia Wholesale Supply
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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15 x 10 cm
Color postcard
English
Image
21862 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Point Mugu (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Railroad Crossing
Railroads
Photo postcard of a Railroad crossing, with a woman approaching it on the right of the photo. There are buildings, an open car, and a horse drawn wagon in the background. There is writing on the front of the postcard and it is addressed to Mrs. Nicholas Hearne of Ventura. Postmark possibly from Denver, Colorado; signed by "Eloise."
[No Publisher Stated]
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
1911-09-18
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15 x 10 cm
Black and white postcard
English
Image
22072 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Bank of A. Levy
Bank of A. Levy
Exterior view of Bank of A. Levy from across the street. People and cars are visible.
Hill, David
David Hill, 1989
Museum of Ventura County
1979
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12.8 x 17.7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
16714
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Priest Speaks to a Crowd
Crowds
Priests
Speeches, addresses, etc., English
An unidentified priest speaks to a large crowd from a podium draped with a U.S. flag in front of Lehmann & Waterman Office building in Oxnard. There are people sitting in the windowsills and leaning out of windows of the building's second floor.
Unknown
1990
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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12.5 x 16.1 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
17904
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
Snowy Arbolada Entrance, Ojai
Snow
Planned communities
Signs and signboards
Arbolada residential community sign during a snowfall. The sign, street in foreground, and trees in the background are covered in snow. Sign is still legible.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
1948
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10.2 x 14.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
32000
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Polo Grounds, New York, 1912 World Series
Snodgrass, Fred Carlisle
Polo Grounds (New York, N.Y.)
Sepia photograph of the "Polo Grounds-NY." 1912 World Series game between the New York Giants and the Boston Red Sox. Baseball game in progress, stands full of spectators. Some of the surrounding area visible. Buildings visible. Signage visible in Ballpark. Writing on bottom left of photo: "B 128 Copyright The Pictorial News Co. New York." Fred Snodgrass visible in center field. Snodgrass played centerfield for the New York Giants.
Unknown
Gift of Betty Garrett, 2005
Museum of Ventura County
1912
Copyright The Pictorial News Co. New York, 1912
Panorama
25.1 x 78.7 cm
Sepia photograph
English
Image
35986 OS
New Ventura Freeway, 1965
Ventura (Calif.)--Views
United States Highway 101
Mission San Buenaventura
View looking west over the top of "El Caballo" (the Mission San Buenaventura settling tank) with the new Ventura Freeway in the background. Many business and buildings in view mid image.
McQuatters, John J.
Museum of Ventura County
1965-05-21
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20.2 x 25.7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
328
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Las Quince Letras Cafe, Santa Paula
Las Quince Letras Cafe
Family-owned business enterprises
Restaurants
Diaz family
Exterior view of Las Quince Letras Cafe, a restaurant in Santa Paula owned an operated by the Diaz Family. Restaurant sign is clearly visible, flanked by Coca Cola advertising signs.
Unknown
Diaz Family Collection, 1994
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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27971 NP
Black and white negative
Spanish
Image
27970 NP
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Santa Paula (Calif.)
Entrance Sign for Gila Relocation Center
Gila River Relocation Center
Signs and signboards
Internment of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945
Arizona
This image shows the road signage that marks the entrance to the Gila River Relocation Center, and internment camp for Japanese in Arizona during World War II.
Unknown
Helen Yamamoto Collection, 1995
Museum of Ventura County
1943
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20.3 x 25.4 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
28224
Inadomi Company Storefront
Inadomi Company Store (Oxnard, Calif.)
Trucks
Delivery of goods
Grocery stores
Family-owned business enterprises
This image shows an exterior street view of the Inadomi Store. There is an International semi truck parked on the street in front. The Asahi Market can be seen in the background.
Unknown
Inadomi Family Collection, 1995
Museum of Ventura County
1932
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Black and white negative
English
Image
28428 NP
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)