Photographic Index

Glass-plate holdings from 1887

Scanned at 1200 DPI from original private collections and municipal archives, recording the foundational years of the Puente Hills settlement.

1,200

DPI plate scans

1887

Earliest record

6

Catalog series

Archive Series

Cataloged prints and plates

Detailed framing, street coordinates, and date estimations for every preserved negative in the collection.

— Curator's Note

Emulsion fractures and silver migration on the original glass plates are intentionally preserved as markers of temporal passage rather than corrected in post-production.

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The hands behind the archive

Learn about the research methodology and provenance standards.