Works Progress Administration Collection
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Ramona Outdoor Play, Hemet
A capacity audience views a performance of the famed Ramona Outdoor Play, in the colorful Ramona Bowl in Hemet. Each Spring from 1923 onward, with on…
Riverside Civic Auditorium
1939
Exterior view of the Riverside Civic Auditorium, built in Mission style, on May 20, 1939.
Riverside Post Office
1939
Exterior view of the mission style Post Office building in Riverside on May 20, 1939.
Riverside Public Library
1939
Exterior view of the Riverside Public Library, California's first Mission style Carnegie library. In 1901 Riverside received an initial $20,000 Carne…
Sherman Institute
1939
Exterior view of Sherman Institute, a boarding school for Native Americans in Riverside, on May 20, 1939.
Sherman Institute
1939
Exterior view of Sherman Institute, a boarding school for Native Americans in Riverside, on May 20, 1939.
Slaughter winery near Chino
1937
Exterior view of the Fenton M. Slaughter winery located ten miles south of Chino. It is built of concrete slabs. Photo date: January 1937.
Guasti winery buildings
1930s
Caption on the verso of image reads, "The world's largest fermenting winery at Guasti has a capacity of one million gallons." View of the fermentati…
Mission San Bernardino Asistencia bell wall
1939
Close up view of San Bernardino Asistencia campanario, or bell wall, which was built in 1937. San Bernardino Asistencia was established in 1819, as a…
Mission San Bernardino Asistencia bell wall
1939
View of San Bernardino Asistencia campanario, or bell wall, which was built in 1937. San Bernardino Asistencia was established in 1819, as a "sub-mis…
Watchorn Lincoln Memorial Shrine
1939
View of the Watchorn Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Smiley Park in Redlands on May 20, 1939. It was founded by oil executive Robert Watchorn as a tribute…
Euclid and Foothill avenues, Upland
1937
Pepper and acacia trees make up a very beautiful common in the center of Upland at Euclid Avenue and Foothill Boulevard on the Old Santa Fe Trail.
Statue in Upland
1937
Upland statue called "Madonna of the Trail," a memorial placed by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution to the pioneer mot…
San Diego County map
1937
Photo of a 1937 map of San Diego County showing cities, towns and connecting highways. Hash-marked borders for Orange County and Riverside County app…
Slaughter adobe, Chino
1936
Interior view of the Fenton M. Slaughter adobe in 1936, which was built by Raimundo Yorba ten miles south of Chino.
Cucamonga Winery concentrator
1930s
Close-up view of a concentrator used in making heavy grape syrup inside the Cucamonga Winery, which was built in 1835. Cucamonga Winery, often called…
Cucamonga Winery fermenting tanks
1930s
Close-up view of several fermenting tanks inside the Cucamonga Winery, into which grapes are pumped. Wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes us…