Downtown Lancaster street scene showing the old Valley Theater on the west side of Sierra Highway, 1940s
[Courtesy of the City of Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery and its many donors]
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Pancho Barnes and Amelia Earhart, late 1920s
[Courtesy of the Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Flight Test Center-Headquarters]
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Pancho Barnes, c. 1920s
[Courtesy of the Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Flight Test Center-Headquarters]
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Pancho Barnes's truck with Rancho Oro Verde, c. 1940s
[Courtesy of the Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Flight Test Center-Headquarters]
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Pancho Barnes's Rancho De Oro after it burned, early 1960s
[Courtesy of the Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Flight Test Center-Headquarters]
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Lancaster Railroad Depot, c. 1900-1905
[Courtesy of the City of Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery and its many donors]
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Twenty Mule Team loaded with hay at the John Searles' San Bernardino Borax Company warehouse in Mojave, c. 1880
[Courtesy of the City of Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery and its many donors]
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Construction of Owens Valley Aqueduct, c. 1910
[Courtesy of the City of Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery and its many donors]
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Antelope Valley farm scene with an early hay baler, c. 1902
[Courtesy of the City of Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery and its many donors]
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Cattle round-up on Butterworth Ranch, c. 1906
[Courtesy of the City of Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery and its many donors]
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Cowboys at H. J. Butterworth corral, c. 1905-1910
[Courtesy of the City of Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery and its many donors]
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Early day miners at entrance to the Lida Mine, c. 1900s
[Courtesy of the City of Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery and its many donors]
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Ezra Hamilton's Lida Mill, c. 1900s
[Courtesy of the City of Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery and its many donors]
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Fred Hamilton (son of Ezra Hamilton) in mining clothes and surrounded by the tools of his trade, c. 1900s
[Courtesy of the City of Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery and its many donors]
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Job Harriman, the founder of Llano del Rio, in May Day Parade, c. 1915
[Courtesy of the City of Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery and its many donors]
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Burden basket of the type used by Piute Indians
[Courtesy of the Antelope Valley Indian Museum]
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Mano and metate from the Piute Butte area
[Courtesy of the Antelope Valley Indian Museum]
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Crate label from the Blum Ranch, c. 1950s
[Courtesy of the Palmdale City Library]
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Map showing the Tropico Mine in Rosamond, CA, c. 1960s
[Courtesy of the Palmdale City Library]
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Letter from O. F. Goodrich of the Antelope Valley Hay and Grain Company to a Mr. Kelly regarding a poorly behaved mule., c. 1920s
[Courtesy of the Palmdale City Library]
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First combine in the Antelope Valley on the Godde-Stratman Ranch, early 1900s
[Courtesy of the Palmdale City Library]
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52-Mule team used in the construction of the Los Angeles-Owens Valley Aqueduct across the west side of the Antelope Valley, 1908
[Courtesy of the Palmdale City Library]
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Little Rock Dam, c. 1920
[Courtesy of the Palmdale City Library]
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Intersection of Sierra Highway and Lancaster Boulevard, looking south on Sierra Highway
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Aerial view looking north and showing almost the entire city of Lancaster, c. 1952
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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The Gillwyn Hotel, which became the Western Hotel and was used as Lancaster's first high school, c. 1880s
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Tenth Street, c. 1940
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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The first rodeo in Antelope Valley, c. 1910
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Sierra Highway from the Valley Theater to the old Ledger Gazette Building, c. 1948
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Lancaster Boulevard, looking west, c. 1900
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Aerial view showing Antelope Valley Joint Union High School, 1955
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Beale Adobe at Tejon Ranch, 1863
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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The completed Fairmont Tunnel (aka the 'Elizabeth Tunnel') of the Los Angeles-Owens Valley Aqueduct, c. 1920s
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Workers standing in front of tunnel entrance in the Los Angeles-Owens Valley Aqueduct, c. 1908
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Aerial view of San Andreas fault line from just west of the Palmdale Reservoir to Big Pine, c. 1935
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Drawing showing a bird's-eye view of the Antelope Valley, c. 1880
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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An Antelope Valley road separating an orchard and the desert, c. 1920s
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Aerial view of Palmdale business district, c. 1930
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Pear picking in Littlerock, 1920s
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Interior of a pear packing shed, c. 1920s
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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New pear orchard (possibly in Pearland) and water flowing from a standpipe
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Palmdale Grammar School at the end of Main Street (Avenues Q through P), 1925
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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The Avenue S area in old Palmdale, 1890-1895
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Aerial view of Palmdale, from the airport to where the Colton Spur of the railroad track crosses Sierra Highway, c. 1986
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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The Palmenthal schoolhouse and students in old Palmdale, 1890s
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Palmdale looking northwest from the railroad water tank toward houses on Pacific Avenue (6th Street East) and beyond, c. 1918
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Antelope Valley Joint Union High School, 1920s
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Map of Lancaster, 1940s
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Lancaster Boulevard, looking east from Cedar Avenue, 1950s
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Construction of Shea's Castle, 1925
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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The Lancaster Airport on the northwest corner of 10th Street West and Avenue I, 1930
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Job Harriman, the founder of Llano del Rio, c. 1900
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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A furnished tent house at Llano del Rio, c. 1914-1917
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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The land as the Llano del Rio colonists first saw it, c. 1914
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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A group of Llano del Rio colonists, 1914
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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The last colonists leaving Llano del Rio, 1918
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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A dormitory and the Hotel Llano del Rio, 1916
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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Ruins of the Llano del Rio Hotel, c. 1920s
[Courtesy of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society]
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