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GUIDE TO THE RALPH P. STINEMAN COLLECTION

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COLLECTION NUMBER:
C117.

COLLECTION TITLE:
Ralph P. Stineman Collection.

DATES OF MATERIAL:
1911-1915.

EXTENT:
3,059 negatives: glass; 5 x 7 in.

LOCAL CONTROL NUMBERS:
Negatives: 91:18564/0-3058.

REPOSITORY:
San Diego Historical Society
Booth Historical Photograph Archives
P.O. Box 81825
San Diego, CA 92138
1-619-232-6203

ACQUISITION INFORMATION:
Purchase from Kenneth Peake, 1991.

RESTRICTIONS:
Open for research.

COPYRIGHT:
For permission to reproduce or publish, contact the curator of the Booth Historical Photograph Archives of the San Diego Historical Society. Reproduction or publication of any part of this collection must include the following information next to the image(s) or in a special section of credits: Ralph P. Stineman Collection, San Diego Historical Society, Booth Historical Photograph Archives.

GENERAL NOTES:
Arranged by local control number. Seven photograph reference books with photocopies of most of the images in the collection are provided for reference use, and corresponding copy negatives for all images are available. Also, there is a list of original photographic prints by Stineman found in various other San Diego Historical Society photograph collections and a typescript, "1000 Days in San Diego: The Photographs of Ralph P. Stineman" by John Redfern (1993). Some images published in: "Developing San Diego: The Images of Ralph P. Stineman, 1910-1915" by John Redfern and Chuck Hill, Journal of San Diego History, 43:92-115 (Spring 1997). Forms part of the San Diego Historical Society Negative Collection.

BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL NOTE:
Ralph P. Stineman was born in Pennsylvania in 1871. Evidently he came to San Diego around 1900 where he worked as a photographer until 1915. Stineman moved to Los Angeles around 1920 and opened a shop on Sunset Boulevard where he invented and sold motion picture film processing and projection equipment until 1939. He then returned to San Diego where he died in 1955.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE:
This collection represents the work of Ralph P. Stineman from 1911 to 1915 when he was a professional photographer in San Diego. It documents agriculture, land use and real estate development, water supply and distribution, beaches, businesses, buildings and houses, transportation, people, and locations throughout San Diego County. Balboa Park and preparation for the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 form the largest part of the collection. Stineman's photographs depict the utopian agricultural colony of Little Landers, farms, ranches, and fruit orchards; dams, reservoirs, and flumes; San Diego High School, Army and Navy Academy, schools, and school children; the YMCA, Carnegie Library, Masonic Temple, San Diego Courthouse, Timken, McFadden Buxton Arcade, hotels, churches, and other buildings; Mission Brewery, Dudley Motion Picture Manufacturing Company, and many other business enterprises; commercial and residential streets; maps; early automobiles, airplanes, railroad cars and locomotives, stagecoaches, ships, yachts, and boats. Locations include: Alpine, Buckman Springs, Cardiff by the Sea, Chula Vista, Coronado, Del Mar, El Cajon, Encinitas, Escondido, Fallbrook, Grossmont, Imperial Valley, Julian, La Jolla, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, National City, Santee, San Diego, and its neighborhoods, including Burlingame, North Park, Mission Beach, Mission Hills, Mission Valley, Ocean Beach, Pacific Beach, Point Loma, and Sunset Cliffs.

SUBJECTS INDEXED:
Little Landers Corporation (San Diego, Calif.)
Panama-California Exposition (1915: San Diego, Calif.)
San Diego Army and Navy Academy.
Agriculture -- California -- San Diego County.
Agricultural facilities -- California -- San Diego County.
Beaches -- California -- San Diego County.
Buildings -- California -- San Diego.
Business enterprises -- California -- San Diego.
Cities & towns -- California.
Commercial facilities -- California -- San Diego.
Houses -- California -- San Diego.
Hydraulic facilities -- California -- San Diego County.
Land use -- California -- San Diego County.
Parks -- California -- San Diego.
People.
Schools -- California -- San Diego.
Streets -- California -- San Diego.
Transportation.
Vehicles.
Vessels.
Back country (San Diego County, Calif.) -- Photographs.
Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.) -- Photographs.
San Diego (Calif.) -- Photographs.

CONTENTS LIST:

Negative(s)	Description
91:18564/375-413	Agriculture or agricultural facilities.
91:18564/463-471	Agriculture or agricultural facilities.
91:18564/1309-1311	Agriculture or agricultural facilities.
91:18564/1935	Agriculture or agricultural facilities.
91:18564/2211-2213	Agriculture or agricultural facilities.
91:18564/2955	Agriculture or agricultural facilities.
91:18564/491-512	Airplanes.
91:18564/414-423	Alpine (Calif.)
91:18564/472	Alpine (Calif.)
91:18564/424-434	Animals.
91:18564/1312-1315	Animals.
91:18564/435-441	Apartments.
91:18564/473-476	Apartments.
91:18564/455-462	Art or artists.
91:18564/1943-1946	Automobile racing.
91:18564/477-490	Automobiles.
91:18564/2214	Automobiles.
91:18564/2975	Automobiles.
91:18564/3023-3027	Automobiles.
91:18564/513-567	Back country (San Diego County, Calif.)
91:18564/1289	Back country (San Diego County, Calif.)
91:18564/1297	Back country (San Diego County, Calif.)
91:18564/1320	Back country (San Diego County, Calif.)
91:18564/3028-3034	Back country (San Diego County, Calif.)
91:18564/92-95	Balboa Park and Panama-California Exposition.
91:18564/108	Balboa Park and Panama-California Exposition.
91:18564/1298-1305	Balboa Park and Panama-California Exposition.
91:18564/1735-1736	Balboa Park and Panama-California Exposition.
91:18564/2269	Balboa Park and Panama-California Exposition.
91:18564/2320-2951	Balboa Park and Panama-California Exposition.
91:18564/2951	Balboa Park and Panama-California Exposition.
91:18564/2979	Balboa Park and Panama-California Exposition.
91:18564/2985	Balboa Park and Panama-California Exposition.
91:18564/2992-2993	Balboa Park and Panama-California Exposition.
91:18564/3035-3041	Balboa Park and Panama-California Exposition.
91:18564/568-582	Beaches or coastlines.
91:18564/583	Bonita (Calif.)
91:18564/584	Boundaries -- United States and Mexico.
91:18564/585-586	Bridges.
91:18564/1306	Bridges.
91:18564/706-714	Buckman Springs (Calif.)
91:18564/96	Buildings.
91:18564/587-591	Buildings.
91:18564/596-603	Buildings.
91:18564/610-613	Buildings.
91:18564/623-625	Buildings.
91:18564/627-628	Buildings.
91:18564/633	Buildings.
91:18564/653-660	Buildings.
91:18564/673-680	Buildings.
91:18564/683	Buildings.
91:18564/684-688	Buildings.
91:18564/690-693	Buildings.
91:18564/3042-3043	Buildings.
91:18564/1-89	Burlingame (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/592-595	Business enterprises.
91:18564/604-609	Business enterprises.
91:18564/614-622	Business enterprises.
91:18564/626	Business enterprises.
91:18564/629-632	Business enterprises.
91:18564/634-652	Business enterprises.
91:18564/661-672	Business enterprises.
91:18564/681-682	Business enterprises.
91:18564/689	Business enterprises.
91:18564/694-705	Business enterprises.
91:18564/1536-1537	Business enterprises.
91:18564/1290	Calexico (Calif.)
91:18564/715-720	Campo (Calif.)
91:18564/109-160	Cardiff by the Sea (Calif.)
91:18564/721	Cardiff by the Sea (Calif.)
91:18564/1708	Cardiff by the Sea (Calif.)
91:18564/2952-2953	Cardiff by the Sea (Calif.)
91:18564/726-804	Chula Vista (Calif.)
91:18564/805-813	Churches.
91:18564/814-818	Construction.
91:18564/2954	Construction.
91:18564/3044-3045	Construction.
91:18564/819-842	Coronado (Calif.)
91:18564/3055	Coronado (Calif.)
91:18564/843-847	Cuyamaca (Calif.)
91:18564/722-725	Dams or reservoirs.
91:18564/848-897	Dams or reservoirs.
91:18564/2990-2991	Dams or reservoirs.
91:18564/3050	Dams or reservoirs.
91:18564/898-902	Dehesa (El Cajon, Calif.)
91:18564/161-223	Del Mar (Calif.)
91:18564/905-908	Descanso (Calif.)
91:18564/910-914	Drawings.
91:18564/224-228	Dulzura (Calif.)
91:18564/915	Eclipses.
91:18564/229-283	El Cajon (Calif.)
91:18564/284-287	Encanto (Calif.)
91:18564/288-303	Encinitas (Calif.)
91:18564/304-318	Escondido (Calif.)
91:18564/330-341	Fallbrook (Calif.)
91:18564/943-944	Fallbrook (Calif.)
91:18564/945	Fires.
91:18564/3046	Fires.
91:18564/319-329	Floods.
91:18564/342-346	Flumes.
91:18564/1209	Flumes.
91:18564/97	Green Dragon Colony (La Jolla, Calif.)
91:18564/99-107	Grossmont (Calif.)
91:18564/946-951	Horses or mules and wagons or carriages.
91:18564/2159	Horses or mules and wagons or carriages.
91:18564/952	Horton Plaza (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/953-957	Hospitals.
91:18564/90-91	Hotels.
91:18564/958-974	Hotels.
91:18564/975-1122	Houses.
91:18564/1210	Houses.
91:18564/1470-1471	Houses.
91:18564/2160-2161	Houses.
91:18564/2204-2207	Houses.
91:18564/2964-2965	Houses.
91:18564/2982	Houses.
91:18564/2988-2989	Houses.
91:18564/1123-1129	Housing developments.
91:18564/1130-1133	Imperial Beach (Calif.)
91:18564/1134-1205	Imperial Valley (Calif.)
91:18564/2986-2987	Imperial Valley (Calif.)
91:18564/1206-1207	Indians of North America.
91:18564/1208	Jacumba (Calif.)
91:18564/1211-1261	Julian (Calif.) and ranches.
91:18564/1262-1288	La Jolla (Calif.)
91:18564/3047	La Jolla (Calif.)
91:18564/3058	La Jolla (Calif.)
91:18564/1291-1296	Lakeside (Calif.)
91:18564/1321-1348	La Mesa (Calif.)
91:18564/1349-1381	Lemon Grove (Calif.)
91:18564/2994	Lemon Grove (Calif.)
91:18564/1307-1308	Little Landers Corporation (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/1382-1469	Little Landers Corporation (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/2162	Little Landers Corporation (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/2247-2248	Little Landers Corporation (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/2980	Little Landers Corporation (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/2983	Little Landers Corporation (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/1479-1509	Maps.
91:18564/916-942	Merchandise displays.
91:18564/1527-1535	Mission Beach (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/1538-1549	Mission Cliff Gardens (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/1550-1556	Mission Hills (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/1557-1562	Mission Valley (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/2997	Mission Valley (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/1563-1565	Motorcycles.
91:18564/1569-1574	Mount Helix (La Mesa, Calif.)
91:18564/1566-1568	Mountain Spring (Calif.)
91:18564/1575-1599	National City (Calif.)
91:18564/2998-3022	National City (Calif.) and fires.
91:18564/1600-1607	Nestor (Calif.)
91:18564/1608-1614	North Park (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/2971	North Park (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/98	Ocean Beach (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/1615-1641	Ocean Beach (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/1642-1646	Oceanside (Calif.)
91:18564/1647-1648	Old Town (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/1649-1654	Organizations.
91:18564/1655-1659	Otay (Calif.)
91:18564/1660-1668	Pacific Beach (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/2974	Pacific Beach (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/2984	Pacific Beach (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/1669-1670	Palm City (Calif.)
91:18564/1671-1672	Parades.
91:18564/1673	Parks.
91:18564/2944-2948	Parks.
91:18564/1674-1773	People.
91:18564/3048	People.
91:18564/1774-1864	Point Loma (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/2995	Point Loma (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/1316-1319	Pottery.
91:18564/1865-1904	Railroads.
91:18564/3049	Railroads.
91:18564/1906-1909	Ramona (Calif.)
91:18564/1910-1915	Ranches.
91:18564/1934	Ranches.
91:18564/1916-1933	Real estate development.
91:18564/1936-1942	Rivers.
91:18564/1947-1960	Roads.
91:18564/2208-2210	Roads.
91:18564/1961-1970	San Diego -- skyline views.
91:18564/442-454	San Diego Army and Navy Academy.
91:18564/1519	San Diego Army and Navy Academy.
91:18564/2978	San Diego Bay.
91:18564/3051-3052	San Diego Bay.
91:18564/357-374	San Diego harbor.
91:18564/2157-2158	San Diego harbor.
91:18564/1971-1977	San Pasqual (Calif.)
91:18564/1981-1985	San Ysidro (Calif.)
91:18564/1978-1980	San Ysabel (Calif.)
91:18564/1986-1997	Santee (Calif.)
91:18564/1998-2155	Schools.
91:18564/2163-2200	Ships, boats, or yachts.
91:18564/3056	Ships.
91:18564/2201-2203	Signs (Notices)
91:18564/2215-2218	Sports.
91:18564/2219-2225	Spring Valley (Calif.)
91:18564/2226-2227	Stagecoaches.
91:18564/2228-2240	Streets.
91:18564/3054	Streets.
91:18564/2241-2246	Sunset Cliffs (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/2249-2256	Sweetwater (Calif.)
91:18564/2260	Theaters.
91:18564/2257-2259	Torrey Pines State Reserve (Calif.)
91:18564/3057	Torrey Pines State Reserve (Calif.)
91:18564/2279	University Heights (San Diego, Calif.)
91:18564/2280-2282	Warner's Ranch (Calif.)
91:18564/2283-2317	Waterworks.
91:18564/2318-2319	Wills.

Selected Stineman Photos from our 1997 exhibit

Spring 1997 article from our Journal of San Diego History