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Summer land : East San Gabriel Extension acreage & villa tracts
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Maps of San Gabriel Mission lands
Manuscripts
HM 79258 - Mimeographed map: "Mission San Gabriel...showing the irregular Tracts of cultivated Land within Section 11..." (1870, May). Surveyed by H. M. Johnston (71 x 55 cm.).
mssHM 79258-79259
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San Gabriel Valley Land and Water Company minutes
Manuscripts
The volumes begin with the Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws for the San Gabriel Valley Land and Water Company. Following are the meeting minutes of the company from 1888 to 1893. The first volume (HM 73896) covers 1887 to March 1890. The second volume (HM 73897) covers March 1890 to 1893. There is an issue of the "Orange Trade Reporter," Vol. 3, No. 18 (1897, April 28) in the second volume.
mssHM 73896-73897
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Visitor register of San Gabriel Hotel
Manuscripts
This is the register for the San Gabriel Hotel from 1888 to 1920 (chiefly 1888 to 1890 - only a few entries for April 9, 1905, June 28, 1916, and April 11, 1920). It gives the visitors' names and their residences. Some of the daily entries include the temperature of that day.
mssHM 72613
Sierra Madre Villa, San Gabriel
Visual Materials
Long, two-story hotel building with a wraparound porch and landscaped grounds of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in San Gabriel (now Sierra Madre, California), with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background and citrus trees in the foreground. Several people sit out on the lawn and on porch.
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