Frozen Frames: The J. Allen Hawkins Collection

Frozen Frames: Preserving Pasadena’s Visual Legacy is an exhibit series that unfolds in four parts, bringing artistically and historically compelling images out of the deep freeze and into public view.

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Featuring images by the most important and prolific mid-century photographer in Pasadena, J. Allen Hawkins. This is PMH’s most extensive collection, consisting of an estimated 300,000 prints and negatives. A smaller portion of the total photographs from Hawkins’ studio (about 3,500 images) is maintained by The Huntington.

To view the images in an exhibition, click on ENTER EXHIBITION or on the X. You can view a photograph’s caption by clicking on the photograph and then clicking on the photograph’s info icon in the top right corner.

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