Scope and Contents

San Bernardino Public Library's photograph collection includes images of family life, work life, daily activities in the community that would be of historical interest to the people of San Bernardino and surrounding areas. Our photographs cover a period from the late 1878 to 1999. The collection includes family photos from some prominent area families including Hirata family; Holcomb family; Caddell family; Santini family and Valles family.

Scope and Contents This group of San Bernardino Pioneers was the daring folks that in the 1850s traveled by wagon trains on the Santa Fe and Salt Lake Trails that brought them to San Bernardino. They formed a pioneer society in our town. They had their portraits displayed at the Pioneer Cabin on F Street in San Bernardino. The portraits were tagged with a number that corresponded with an index that contained names of the individuals in the pictures. These numbers appear on the negatives and therefore are...