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.)
Mayor's Residence, Ventura
Ventura--Buildings--Houses--Mayor's Residence
View of the Ventura Mayor's residence. It is a large Victorian house with a short fence around it. A man holding a horse stands on a boardwalk in the foreground. Caption at top reads: "Mayor's Residence, Ventura, Cal."
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, Cal. (Published by Polychrome Co., San Francisco, Cal.)]
Brakey, J. R.
Museum of Ventura County
1909-03-25
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15 x 10 cm
Sepia postcard
English
Image
20126 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
R. F. Stewart, Blacksmith and Horse Shoer
Stewart, R. F.
Blacksmiths
Ojai
A man stands in the doorway of a blacksmiths shop looking at the viewer; presumably he is R. F. Stewart. The shop sign reads "R. F. Stewart, Blacksmith and practical Horse Shoer." In the background, left, there is another building and in the foreground, left, there is a horse and surrey. Mountains in the background appear close.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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16 x 11 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
3954
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
A. Norman Blacksmith Shop
Norman, Arthur
Blacksmiths
Storefronts
Exterior view of "A. Norman Blacksmithing", a blacksmith shop owned by Arthur Norman. Street corner and side of shop is visible. The shop was at the corner of Oak and Santa Clara Streets, 403 Oak St., in Ventura. Signs on building also read "horshoeing", "woodwork", and "The Bain Wagon." Other buildings adjacent to the blacksmith shop are visible.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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18 x 11 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
4574
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
House in Fillmore
Single-story houses
House built by Abundio and Carlos Sanchez next door to the Sanchez family home on the corner of Clay and Ventura Streets in Fillmore. Image shows exterior and there are some children in the image at the bottom right.
Unknown
Mary Sanchez Rios Collection, 1999
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Black and white negative
English
Image
31720 NP
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Fillmore (Calif.)
Saticoy, 1895
Saticoy (Calif.)--Views
Special events
Buildings
Saticoy street scene showing men, women, and children standing on the porch of a long wooden building. They are dressed formally, as if for an event. Off to the right there are two horse drawn carriages, but only one is completely visible. In the visible horse drawn carriage there is one driver and two passengers, and the two horses pulling it have ornate covers on their backs.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
1895
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19.7 x 11.4 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
782
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Saticoy (Calif.)
Bard House with T. R. Bard and Mary Gerberding with Sister
Bard family
Wooden-frame houses
Illustration of a multi-story wooden home. Several figures are sitting on a terrace porch. Another figure carrying a rifle on their shoulder walks along a trail with a dog.
Caption reads "Bard, T.R. house 1865-1876 on the East side of San Antonio Creek almost opposite present apple orchard at Arnaz. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Bard on porch when Mrs. Bard was still Mary B. Gerberding plus Mrs. Bard's older sister."
Unknown
Bard Collection
Museum of Ventura County
1865-1876
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22 x 17 cm (mounted)
Black and white illustration
English
Image
2380
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Exterior of a Pisgah Grande Building
Pisgah Grande (Calif.)
Pisgah Home Movement
Buildings, structures, etc.
Image of a tall wooden structure used by members of the Pisgah Grande community. Structure in disrepair.
Image is marked "Proof", as it is from an unpublished book proof.
Unknown
From unbound book proof about Pisgah (rec'd 1986)
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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25.3 x 20.3 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
12175
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Simi Valley (Calif.)
Pierpont Inn, Ventura, Cal.
Pierpont Inn
Ventura--Buildings--Hotels--Pierpont Inn
Sepia postcard depicting a front view of the Pierpont Inn in Ventura, Calif. The building is clad in wood shingles and has a dirt path lined with river rock leading to the front entrance.
[Mitchell, Edward H., San Francisco, Cal., 742]
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Sepia postcard
English
Image
20097 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
A View of Ventura, Cal., Looking East From California and Main Streets
Ventura--Streets--Main St.
This birds-eye view looking northeast from California and Main Streets shows numerous wood frame houses and commercial structures, including the Ventura Free Press building. The Elizabeth Bard Memorial Hospital, located on Poli Street, is visible in the distance. Main Street is not paved.
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, Cal. (Logo: Panama/California Exposition, San Diego, 1915; Slogan: "On The Road of a Thousand Wonders"), 3062 and A16494]
Brakey, J.R.
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Color postcard
15 x 10 cm
English
Image
20114 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
The Largest Rubber Tree In California, Ventura
Trees--Ficus Venturiani (Rubber Tree)
Ventura--Views--Circa 1908
View of a rubber tree growing near a street. There is a wood frame structure to the left of the tree and other buildings are visible in the background. Tree's branches spread wide, past the two buildings on either side of it. Uppermost branches not visible in view.
Post marked 12-12-1909.
Caption: The largest Rubber Tree in California, Ventura, Cal.
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, Cal. (Printed by Newman Post Card Co., Los Angeles, Made in Germany)]
Brakey, J.R.
Museum of Ventura County
1909
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Color postcard
15 x 10 cm
English
Image
20124 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Grammar School, Santa Paula
Schools--Santa Paula
A three-story wood school building clad in shingles. The building has a central tower section with a porch on the first level, an enclosed porch on the second level and an observation deck on the third level that is covered by a pyramid-shaped roof structure. A couple of small buildings, trees and mountains are visible in the background.
Verso: Message addressed to Mrs. E. Anderson. Sender is requesting Mrs. Anderson to go to Whitesell to make a purchase for them.
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, Cal. (Logo: Panama-California Exposition, San Diego 1915; Slogan: "On the Road of a Thousand Wonders"), 3077 ad A16509]
Brakey, J.R.
Museum of Ventura County
Circa 1911-1915
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Color postcard
15 x 10 cm
English
Image
20166 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Santa Paula (Calif.)
F. G. Sifford House
Two-story houses
The Sifford house located on South Ash Street. A view taken from the street of a two-story wood frame house with stone chimney and two balconies. The street is unpaved.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Cyanotype
9 x 9 cm
English
Image
930
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Colony House
Two-story houses
Wire fencing
Horses
Front exterior view of a two-story, wooden colony house, with awning-covered front porch. A wire and wood fence is visible in front of the house. An unidentified figure and horse stand to the right of the house.
Library records indicate Simi Valley Historical Society p.68.11.72
Unknown
Simi Valley Historical Society
Museum of Ventura County
1889
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Black and white photograph
15.5 x 13 cm
English
Image
5851
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Simi Valley (Calif.)
A Bachelor's Dwelling in Moorpark
Wooden-frame houses
Exterior view of a plain wood building. A trellis is next to a door, with vines growing from the trellis to the roof of the building. An unidentified man holding a hat stands in front of the house. A side door on the right of the house is open.
Unknown
Gwendolyn Greene Collection, 1997
Museum of Ventura County
1901
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Sepia photograph
9.3 x 11.5 cm
English
Image
30919
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Moorpark (Calif.)
Montalvo Home
Wooden-frame houses
An exterior view of a single-story wood home in Montalvo, possibly belonging to the Eaton family. An unidentified woman wearing an apron stands on the front lawn. Flowering bushes, shrubs and a small cypress tree decorate the front lawn.
Library records include note: "Home of Mr. E."
Unknown
Gwendolyn Greene Collection, 1997
Museum of Ventura County
1899
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Sepia photograph
9.5 x 12 cm
English
Image
30920
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
View of the Strathearn House
Ranches--Strathearn
Houses
Exterior view of the Strathearn house. Shows house surrounded by dense trees and foliage. Wooden fence and lawn visible in foreground.
Unknown
Simi Valley Historical Society, 1985
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Black and white photograph
8.8 x 13 cm
English
Image
11146
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Simi Valley (Calif.)
Nixon Family's Cacti Garden
Cactus
Gardens
Shows a cacti garden growing along the side of the Nixon family house. House is made of wooden slates. Garden includes several varieties of cacti. There is a window above the garden.
Museum records indicate that the Nixon home was located in Ojai, Calif., behind Blanche St.
Unknown
Nixon Estate
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Sepia photograph
10.2 x 12.5 cm
English
Image
8009
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)