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Lot of 2 Tinted Photos by P.V. Reyes

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Lot of 2 Tinted Photos by P.V. Reyes
'Catalina Island "' No. 98 Copyright 1913 and No,135 Copyright 1914 P.V. Reyes, Avalon, CA. Images measure 9 1/2" x 21 1/2" in single mats and wood frames. REYES, Peter Victor (1875-1950), well-known Santa Catalina Island photographer and fourth mayor of Avalon (1918-1926). Among other credits, his work appears in Zane Grey's Great Game Fishing in Catalina (1919). In about 1910, Reyes visited and photographed the northern Channel Islands: San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz islands. The majority of his island photographs were taken on Santa Catalina Island, and many are in the collection of the Santa Catalina Island Museum. His store of "Kodak and developing department and bathing beach goods" was located at 519 Crescent Avenue, Avalon. In 1915 he was one of the original twelve members of the Santa Catalina Island Twenty-Five Year Club.