Hubert A. McClain Photograph Collection

The Hubert A. McClain Photo Collection (1935-1973; undated) contains 12 boxes and 28 linear feet of photographic prints, slides, and negatives that span from the 1930s to the 1970s resulting from McClain’s work as a photojournalist for the Los Angeles Times and as a nature photographer. There are images from California missions taken in the 1940s and 1950s, and include various stills of people, places, and events. The prints range in size from 8x10 through 22x28. Mission images include exterior photographs, slides and negatives of the missions of San Diego, San Luis Obispo, San Francisco, Soledad, San Fernando, Solano, Sonoma, San Jose, San Rafael, Santa Clara, Carmel, San Jose, Santa Cruz, San Luis Rey, Santa Barbara, San Buenaventura, San Juan Capistrano, San Ynes, La Purisima, San Miguel, San Antonio de Padua, San Miguel and San Gabriel. Photojournalism topics include a building collapse from 1952, where five people were killed, the city of Rolling Hills incorporation in 1957 with horses and homes, date farming in the Coachella Valley, and an aerial shot of Long Beach (Rainbow Lagoon), California from 1957. The collection also has photographs of a Japanese farm in Rancho Palos Verdes (1938), San Pedro Lighthouse, the Cascades water in Owen’s Valley, Orange County Highway 18, Sonja Heine publicity tour, Upton Sinclair, Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose (during construction), Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock house, an Imperial Valley farm, and the camera used to film, Birth of a Nation. Also, Franklin Delano Roosevelt giving a speech in Kansas City, Missouri in 1935, the USS Iowa and Mothball Fleet docked at Long Beach Harbor in 1947 and mastodon tusks from Alaska. There are photos of Los Angeles Times staffers from the 1950s and a photo of Agnes Moorhead. Also in the collection there are numerous photographs, slides and negatives of nature in western National parks. Included are different sites of Yosemite, Bryce Canyon, The Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree, Glacier, Muir Woods, Six Rivers, Sequoia, and Yellowstone. There are also images of Jasper, Banff, Victoria, and Vancouver, in Canada; Wetzlar, Kelsterbach, Schwartzwald, and Heidelberg Castle in Germany; and Lucern, Zermatt, and Schweiz, Switzerland. The photographs and slides are in black-and-white and color.