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 History Center
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 History Center, 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 History Center 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
