Close-up of a chacguala lizard, ca.1920 

Drawing of a full-rigged sailing ship, ca.1900 

Portrait of veterans "Teddy's Terrors" with Ben Powers, 1904 

Horse-drawn streetcar for the Redondo Depot Car Line with its driver, ca.1897 

Sketch by Henry Chapman Ford depicting the exterior of the Mission Santa Margarita Asistencia, ca.1900 

Portrait of veterans "Teddy's Terrors" along with the Ladies Auxiliary, ca.1904 

View of Hollywood looking southeast from the Roosevelt Hotel, 1929 

Close-up of a desert tortoise found 60 miles from water, ca.1920 

A huge ridge of stones and silt, the work of gold dredges near Oroville, ca.1930 

Portrait and collage of the first employees of the Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railroad, with equipment, Los Angeles, ca.1900 

Close-up of a diamond back rattle snake, ca.1900-1920 

Lithograph describing the prophecy of Old Mother Shipton, after 1828 

General view of the church of Mission San Francisco Solano de Sonoma from the west, ca.1903 

Rae Peak and Rae Lake in the high Sierra Nevada mountains, Fresno, California, ca.1910 

Close-up of an Arizona gila monster, ca.1920 

Ruins of the Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, San Diego, ca.1898 

Viking ship removed from clay where it was found at Gokstad, Norway, in 1880, photograph ca.1900 

Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting horsemen making their way around a cliff passage south of San Juan Capistrano, ca.1842-1876 

View of Western Avenue looking north from Fountain Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1927 

View of the San Gabriel Mission, showing the ruins of the "Moneyan Institute", Los Angeles, ca.1895