Photograph of the two-story stone house of Charles F. Lummis, "El Alisal", ca.1898-1910. A man and a woman stand facing each other near a door at right. The wooden main door at left bears a decorative initial "CFL". A few trees can be seen towering behind the house. The house was build by Lummis with the help of a 12-year-old Indian boy in the Highland Park area of Los Angeles. Lummis was born at Lynn, Massachusettes in 1859 and died in 1928. He founded the Southwest Museum (Los Angeles) and had an enduring interest in the American southwest and Indians in particular. He was city librarian, 1905-1910. He founded the magazine "Land of Sunshine" later called "Out West".
Photograph of the College of Fine Arts building at the University of Southern California (U.S.C.), Garvanza, Los Angeles, ca.1900. The two-story building has extended eaves, rectangular windows, ornamental arched curves below the roofs, and a covered balcony on the second floor. Walls made of stone masonry surround the lower portion of the building. Another stone wall separates the street, littered with rocks, from the building's yard. Streetcar rails line the dirt road in front of the building.
Photograph taken by G. G. Johnson of a pastoral scene showing a farm house and sycamore trees in turn-of-the-century Garvanza, ca.1900. A small dirt road leads from the bottom left corner to the simple farmhouse at center in the background. The area to the left of the road is occupied by various trees, while the land to the right is mostly open. There is at least one other structure in the distance at right and there are tree covered hills in the background. The road is near the Church of the Angels and Johnston's ranch.
