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

Group photograph, identified on matting, outdoor setting
Local Identifier
168-1-e-03-08-01
Date Created
1880 (year uncertain)
Description

This is possibly the Locust Grove School in Schellville, Sonoma. It was run by Amy B. Lubeck, starting in 1875, for boys under the age of 12. Boy sitting on penny-farthing bicycle at right. Last names of individuals in photo include Tilden, Landsborough, Harrison, Sterett, Lubeck, Wolf, Jackson, Mortimer, Dutton, Bosch, Williams, Wiley, McCreery and Clark.

Louis Pasqual Dallidet
Local Identifier
168-1-e-03-04-02
Date Created
1880 to 1889
Description

Written on back: 'Louis Pasqual Dallidet, brother of Paul Dallidet, son of Pierre Hyppolite Dallidet and Maria Asencion Zalazar Dallidet'

Parade in downtown San Luis Obispo
Local Identifier
168-1-e-03-23-09
Date Created
1880 to 1929
Description

Parade marching southeast down Marsh Street, photo looking northwest toward Morro Street

Parade in downtown San Luis Obispo
Local Identifier
168-1-e-03-23-05
Date Created
1880 to 1929
Description

Written on back: 'Captain Stauffenbeil, Commander'. Possibly a reproduction of 168-1-e-03-23-06.

[Portrait of three men]
Local Identifier
168-1-a-01-14-05
Date Created
1885 to 1900
Description

Three men standing in Arnold photo studio, with type case behind them and holding composing sticks for typesetting.

San Luis Obispo Tribune
Local Identifier
168-1-a-01-14-02
Date Created
1885 to 1910
Description

The Tribune at its ground floor location on Chorro between Higuera and Marsh, Editor Benjamin Brooks stands at the far right doorway. Written on back: 'Mr.? Lucien J. DeFasset'

San Luis Obispo County Abstract Company and Title Bureau, San Luis Obispo, 983 Osos St.
Local Identifier
168-1-a-01-12-01
Date Created
1886 (year uncertain)
Description

San Luis Obispo County Abstract Company and Title Bureau, most likely at 983 Osos St., in the (first) Andrews Hotel Building, before it burned down. It appears that the Abstract Company remained at 983 Osos St. after the new Andrews Bank Building was built (appearing in a 1904 photo by Fitzhugh in Tigner's Souvenir). written on verso: 'Andrews Hotel - Monterey Street, Burned April 1886

Unidentified portrait of man
Local Identifier
168-1-e-03-21-03
Date Created
1886 to 1888
Description

Photo taken at The "Arnold" Gallery, Morro Street.

Hollister Family and Friends at Hollister home, El Chorro Ranch
Local Identifier
168-1-e-03-12-01
Date Created
1888 (year uncertain)
Description

Written on back: 'Jennie Cox, Katie Cox, Hubbard Hollister, Mary Banning Hollister, William Hollister, Minerva Stocking, Flora Stocking Hollister, Mrs. Angell' photo is a reproduction

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