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San Rafael and its last bullfight

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  • Picturesque views in San Rafael, California

    Picturesque views in San Rafael, California

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    Image of ten eye-level vignette views of San Rafael, California, including buildings, a railroad station, a woman on a porch, and landscapes; location captions printed in bottom margin.

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  • Seismological Laboratory, 220 North San Rafael, Pasadena. 1929

    Seismological Laboratory, 220 North San Rafael, Pasadena. 1929

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    View of the Seismological Laboratory at 220 North San Rafael. The building looks like a two-story house on the side of a hill, with a garage farther down the hill, and a shed farther up.

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  • Spanish ranch scene, originally sketched by Vischer

    Spanish ranch scene, originally sketched by Vischer

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    A photographic copy of a print entitled, " California Ranch Scene in Marin County, 10 miles North of San Rafael." The print shows an oak tree on the left and a house and corrals on the right. There are many cows and vaqueros in the center of the print.

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    San Rafael Ranch Company records

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    The collection consists of letters, documents, and maps, including 14 bound volumes, related to the business affairs (1898-1923) of Conway S. Campbell-Johnson and A. Campbell-Johnson, the sons of Alexander Robert Campbell-Johnson. The collection includes property titles, cattle records, property annexation agreements with the city of Pasadena, right-of-way agreements with the Pacific Electric Railway Company, and records of the Church of the Angels in Highland Park, Calif. The addenda consists of estate papers related to the Campbell-Johnston family, including Conway Seymour Campbell-Johnston, R.A. Campbell-Johnston, A.R. Campbell-Johnston (through Louis Johnston), and Ida Campbell-Johnston; 2 maps of the San Rafael Heights area; programs, printed ephemera, and magazine clippings primarily related to the San Rafael area of Pasadena; miscellaneous newspapers and magazines on Southern California history; and 3 published books, including Progress and Economy by J. Platt (1882) and The dairy of the farm by James Long and J.C. Morton (1885). The addenda also includes 29 photographs of Southern California, including Eagle Rock, the Garvanza Hotel and miscellaneous images of Garvanza, the Mt. Lowe Railroad, the Webster's Hotel dining room in Pasadena, the beach of Hotel Arcadia in Santa Monica, the Sierra Madre Villa Hotel, and the Sierra Madre Mountains.

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  • Annandale Country Club, 1 North San Rafael, Pasadena. 1925

    Annandale Country Club, 1 North San Rafael, Pasadena. 1925

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    General view of the Annandale Country Club at 1 North San Rafael showing a golf course in the foreground.

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  • Seismology Laboratory group, 220 North San Rafael, Pasadena. 1929

    Seismology Laboratory group, 220 North San Rafael, Pasadena. 1929

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    Group portrait of men at the Seismology Laboratory at 220 North San Rafael. All the men wear suits and ties, except for one in the back who wears a cassock.

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