SANTA CATALINA ISLAND HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS
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- Early Santa Catalina Island Images
- Ralph Paulin Santa Catalina Island Photos
- Shatto's Santa Catalina Island (1887-1891)
- Huron Herbert Smith's Santa Catalina Island Images (1912)
Early Santa Catalina Island Images
Civil War Troops, Catalina Harbor, 1864.
Earliest known Santa Catalina Island photo.
14-foot Water Ball game, Santa Catalina Island, 1935.
The ball's halves are painted two colors.
The object is to get your team's color above water.
Ralph Paulin Santa Catalina Island Photos
Wrigley's House, Santa Catalina Island 
Santa Catalina Island 
Santa Catalina Island 
Seal Rocks, Santa Catalina Island
Shatto's Santa Catalina Island (1887-1891)
- Shatto's Santa Catalina Island
At the age of 37 in 1887, real estate speculator George Rufus Shatto bought Santa Catalina Island from the Lick estate.
Shatto's Hotel Metropole, c. 1887 
Shatto's Avalon, c. 1888 
Santa Catalina Island hotel boom,
photographed by P. V. Reyes. Note Wheeler's Avalon Home.
Huron Herbert Smith's Santa Catalina Island Images (1912)
- Huron Herbert Smith's Santa Catalina Island Images (1912). Courtesy of the Field Museum, Chicago
Stage coach road from Summit to Avalon 
Mountains from Summit to North end of island 
Tom Cat rock at mouth of Silver Canyon, waves crashing on rocks and shore 
In Silver Canyon 
Avalon Harbor from Mountain 
Avalon Harbor close view 
Avalon Harbor from Mount Doublet 
Avalon Bay 
Strs. [Steamers or steam ships?] Cabrillo and Harmosa in Avalon Harbor 
Hancock Banning's home. Descanso Canyon 
Descanso Canyon 
Sugar Loaf rock and road to Descanso Canyon
with a very large wooden ladder for climbing, and a man standing nearby.
Sugar Loaf rock and road to Descanso Canyon with a very large wooden ladder for climbing, woman, plant collector or artist standing nearby. 
Heteromeles arbutifolia. Avalon Canyon. Toyon or California Holly. Rosaceae. 
Close up of tree bark. Heteromeles arbutifolia. Avalon Canyon. Toyon or California Holly. Rosaceae. 
Ceanothus cuneatis. Towards Summit 
Close up of tree bark. Ceanothus arboreus. Tree Lilac and Island Mt. Lilac. Rhamnaceae, Felt Leaf 
Rhus laurina Laurel Sumac tree Anacardiaceae 
Rhus laurina Laurel Sumac tree Anacardiaceae close up of tree trunk 
Cercocarpus parvifolius tree. Near Summit (Rosaceae) Mahogany 
Cercocarpus parvifolius tree trunk. Near Summit (Rosaceae) Mahogany 
Cercocarpus traskiae, close up of tree trunk 
Prunus integrifolia. Catalina Cherry tree 
Prunus integrifolia. Catalina Cherry tree 
Rhamnus insularis. Island redberry.
Road to Middle Ranch and cactus plants nearby.
Quercus tomentella Engelm. Island Oak tree 
Vale in Bulrush canyon. Quercus tomentella Engelm,
close up of trunk. Showing grove principally of Island Oak trees
Rhus integrifolia tree 
Rhus integrifolia close up of tree trunk. 
Hillside of Ceanothus arboreus. Tree Lilac and Island Mt. Lilac 
Quercus lobata. Valley oak tree 
Adenostoma fasciculatum (Chamise or Greasewood) plants in bloom 
Quercus lobata. Valley oak tree 
Quercus lobata. Valley oak close up of tree trunk. 
Populus trichocarpa (black cottonwood; also known as western balsam poplar
or California poplar) tree
Sambucus [caerulea] glauca. Large elder tree on golf links. Avalon Canyon 
Prunus integrifolia. Catalina Cherry tree 
Prunus integrifolia. Catalina Cherry close up of tree trunk. 
Ceanothus arboreus. Tree Lilac and Island Mt. Lilac 
Rhamnus insularis. Island redberry close up of tree trunk. 
Catalina Ironwood tree. Lyonothamnus floribundus 
Catalina Ironwood tree. Lyonothamnus floribundus 
Catalina Ironwood close up of tree trunk. Lyonothamnus floribundus 
Grove of Ironwood [Lyonothamnus floribundus] growing on side of Swain's Canyon,
elevation 1400 feet.
Women and men landing at the isthmus on the dock. Sailboat at dock 
Catalina Harbor at Isthmus. Cactus plants.
One of the three natural fish traps in the world
The isthmus 
Moonstone beach with people on shore and
glass bottomed paddle boat named Empress in the water
Pasadena YMCA, several large white tents, encamped at White's Beach landing. 
