San Luis Obispo County Regional Photograph Collection

The San Luis Obispo County Regional Photographs Collection contains photographs, artwork, and postcards of San Luis Obispo City and County. The collection, comprised of both amateur and professional work, captures daily life and popular scenes and locations in the county. The bulk of the collection focuses on early twentieth-century San Luis Obispo. Collections dates between 1850-1980 (bulk 1890-1930). More information available at: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6c6037qw/.

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Pismo Beach
Local Identifier
168-2-a-04-04-01
Date Created
1900 to 1920
Description

'El Pizmo Beach'

Hays-Latimer Adobe
Local Identifier
168-1-b-01-29-01
Date Created
1900 to 1920
Description

View of Hays-Latimer Adobe situated at 642 Monterey Street in San Luis Obispo.

San Luis Obispo, view from Terrace Hill
Local Identifier
168-1-b-01-36-02
Date Created
1900 to 1920
Description

Looking northwest toward downtown San Luis Obispo, Cerro San Luis (left) and Bishop Peak (right)

Road maintenance
Local Identifier
168-1-b-01-34-01
Date Created
1900 to 1929
Description

Men using horse-drawn wagons and pickaxes working away at the hillside to maintain a road

San Luis Obispo, view from Terrace Hill
Local Identifier
168-1-b-01-36-01
Date Created
1903 to 1920
Description

Written on photo: 'Birds-Eye View - San Luis Obispo Cal. - Cal. Polytechnic School in Distance', Cal Poly marked on the map to the right

Washington Saloon
Local Identifier
168-2-c-05-01-06
Date Created
1872 to 1873
Description

Washington Saloon, The three-story frame building was a hotel. The only three-story frame building in the county then. Two story building with Lingo's Cambria Motel built in 1869

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