San Luis Obispo County Regional Photograph Collection

Mercantile/La Plaza Building with City Hall visible at right

Atascadero City Hall visible in center

Tiny lighthouse on water

Possibly a view of Atascadero High School

Sign on building reads: 'The Shanty'

Woman with violin

Handwritten pencil notes: "Golden Bar Margarine"; "Churned to cream equal to beat butter"

View of cow, Templeton, CA, Writing on front reads: 'Perinthiabeau Born On Eagle Ranch March 25th 1923 First At Sacramento Fair 1923 Weighed 600 Pounds At The Age Of Six Months'.

Portrait of Dr. Amos R. Hathway

Written on front: 'The view near San Luis Obispo, California by J.H.K.' Written on back: 'Dear Mrs. Hathway: Greetings! Good wishes too from near home - to you, and the coming year. Mr. and Mrs. Knickerbocker'

View of ocean looking through the opening of Robber's Cave.

Back of postcard reads: 'La Soledad Mission was founded in 1791. Its ruins are located about thirty-five miles east of Monterey. Nothing has been done to preserve the church of 'Our Lady of Solitude.'

Back of postcard reads: 'Founded 1791, near Soledad, California. For years seldom visited except by the rain, wind and fog, only pitiful rows of ruined adobe walls remained at Soledad. But now the chapel, seen through an old doorway, is rebuilt... and thus work begins on this, the last mission in the chain of 21 to be restored.' An official California Mission Trails Association card.

Caption on back of card reads: 'Fray Junipero Serra, the apostle of California, is buried in the center tomb and beside him rest Padre Crespi, Lasuen and Lopez.'

Caption on back of card reads: 'This was the first library in California, the first books having been brought by Fray Junipero Serra in 1771. By 1820 it contained over 2,000 volumes.'

Caption on back of card reads: 'This restored kitchen shows cooking utensils and ovens in use by the Padres at the beginning of the mission -- founded in 1770.'

Back of postcard reads: 'This adobe building, once a monastery for Franciscan padres, is now a museum displaying relics of the days when Mission San Jose was one of the most prosperous of the California Missions.'

'San Antonio Mission'

'Purisiua'

'San Antonio de Padua'

'Mission San Antonio de Padua'

A garden pathway with a stork statue is in the background.

San Luis Hot Sulphur Springs.

Front of sepia toned postcard of Avila Pier.

The drive in front of the Hotel at San Luis Hot Sulphur Springs.

Drinking fountain and concrete platform at the hot springs.

Trees and park at the Hotel, San Luis Sulphur Springs.

Swans swimming in a stream in front of the hotel at the hot springs.

San Luis Obispo Creek in front of the hotel at the hot springs. A bridge is seen in the foreground.

Two people on a boat ride in the stream running alongside the hot springs.

The stream taken near the springs at the hot springs.

A bridge in Avila Beach.