Frozen Frames: Preserving Pasadena's Visual Legacy Images from J. Allen Hawkins Collection

Pasadena Museum of History maintains the area's most extensive and complete photographic archives of Pasadena and its environs, numbering an estimated one million photographic images. These photograph collections include a significant portion of negatives. In 2015, the Museum launched a crowdsourcing effort to save the invaluable collection of historic negatives. This campaign combined with grants and other generous donations enabled the Museum to process and freeze over 200,000 negatives. We are pleased to have the opportunity to feature a selection of these frozen images, some of them never seen before, in this exhibit series.