Ontario and San Antonio Heights Railroad Company's mule car on Euclid Avenue, Ontario, ca.1890 

Euclid Avenue in Ontario, looking north toward the mountains, 1895 

San Jose Ranch House, built by Ygnacio Palomares and owned by Louis Phillips, Spadra, ca.1875 

Garden on tree-lined Euclid Avenue, Ontario, California, ca.1900 

The first house in Hollywood, California, ca.1905 

Cucamonga Canyon, Ontario, ca.1900 

People posing in front of the Varney Brothers' General Merchandise Store in Heber, ca.1904 

Ontario after a storm, showing snow on the mountings, ca.1900 

Exterior view of the adobe home of Don Leonard Cota on Rancho Rincon near Ontario, ca.1900 

Exterior view of the first store built in Hollywood, at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Cahuenga Avenue, ca.1910 

Exterior view of San Francisco's first ferry building, September 1875 

Exterior view of the First Congregational Church in Santa Barbara, 1875 

Painting by Einar Corsten Petersen, depicting the "Arrival of the First Schoolteachers", ca.1860 

Students and teachers in front of the first school in Long Beach, ca.1882-1884 

Exterior view of the Casa de Pedrorena, the first frame house built in Old Town, San Diego, ca.1920 

The first Presbyterian (Methodist?) Church in Pasadena, 1890 

Illustration depicting the intersection of Market Street and McAllister Street in San Francisco, ca.1890 

Los Nogales Ranch House in Spadra, home of Don Ramon Vejar, ca.1860 

Spring Street looking north from First Street, Los Angeles, ca.1880-1884 

View of a patio built as a breezeway on a house in the desert, ca.1900-1930