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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Parade in downtown San Luis Obispo
Local Identifier
168-1-e-03-23-03
Date Created
1890 (year uncertain)
Description

San Luis Obispo Fire Department in front of Fire Engine House (part of City Hall and shared with the jail) on Higuera Street in downtown San Luis Obispo. Also visible are the San Luis Obispo Hotel, the Masonic Hall, the Laughery House (1875), and in the distance is the Hotel Ramona (1888). Current 800 block of Monterey Street.

[View of Mission and corner of Monterey and Chorro]
Local Identifier
168-1-b-01-39-04
Date Created
1890 to 1900
Description

Written on back: 'Mr? Lucien J. DeFasset' Looking northwest towards San Luis Obispo Mission [bell tower visible] from the roof of a building. On right of photo is a view of Quintana block. In sky is a person with parachute. Possibly at a Fourth of July event from the 1890 or 1892 when a person ascended in a balloon and dropped from a parachute as documented in the local newspaper.

Henry Cass
Local Identifier
168-1-e-03-03-03
Date Created
1890 to 1910
Description

Portrait of Henry Cass

Margie Cass
Local Identifier
168-1-e-03-03-01
Date Created
1890 to 1910
Description

Portrait of Margie Cass

Margie Cass
Local Identifier
168-1-e-03-03-02
Date Created
1890 to 1910
Description

Portrait of Margie Cass

[Unidentified building]
Local Identifier
168-1-b-01-39-03
Date Created
1890 to 1910
Description

'Wood' seen on sign at far left.

[San Luis Obispo Tribune and staff]
Local Identifier
168-1-a-01-14-01
Date Created
1891 to 1895
Description

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

Port Harford and Marre Hotel
Local Identifier
168-2-a-04-05-01
Date Created
1891 to 1895
Description

On front: 'Cunningham Photo Studio.San Luis Obispo Cal.' The date is based on research on Cunningham photography.

Commercial Bank, San Luis Obispo, circa 1895
Local Identifier
168-1-a-01-06-01
Date Created
1895 (year uncertain)
Description

Image taken from the inside of the Commercial Bank, San Luis Obispo, CA, with four men behind the counter.

Tennis Club
Local Identifier
168-1-e-03-19-02
Date Created
1898 (year uncertain)
Description

Written on back: 'The Tennis Club in SLO, About 1898, E. Green, C.P. Kaetzel, Ed Jack. From left to right: Miss Charlotte Douglass later Mrs. Paul McGregg, Gertrude Jack later Mrs. C.P. Kaetzel, E Green, Miss Dorothy Spafford, seated Daisy Wilcon, Rose Dallidet, extreme left second row Miss Jilu ? Childs'

San Miguel Flouring Mill Co
Local Identifier
168-2-b-04-14-02
Date Created
1898 to 1905
Description

'San Miguel c. 1898-1905.for Nicholas from Stella Henley'

Cambria Fire
Local Identifier
168-2-c-05-01-04
Date Created
1900 (year uncertain)
Cambria
Local Identifier
168-2-c-05-01-07
Date Created
1900 (year uncertain)

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