Manuscripts

Visitor register of Echo Mountain House

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Description: This is the register for the Echo Mountain House from 1895 to 1906. It gives the visitors' names and their residences. Many of the pages have hand-drawn sketches, often depicting the weather on that day or the visitors. On cover: "Alpine Tavern."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1896-1906.
Call number: mssHM 69428
Creator: Echo Mountain House(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Dawson's, November 1978.
Dimensions: 41 cm :
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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.

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View of Pasadena from Echo Mountain House

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People standing on balcony of Echo Mountain House, a hotel at the top of Echo Mountain, looking at panoramic view of Pasadena, California.

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Photographs of Mount Lowe and Mount Wilson cabins and camps, San Gabriel Mountains

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Cabinet card photographs of: Alpine Tavern, Echo Mountain House and white hotel on Mt. Lowe; Mount Wilson vacation camps, tourists, the first observatory, Martin's Camp, Peter Steil (of Steil's Camp) and his baby in front of cabin; Eaton Canyon and Millard's Canyon waterfalls. One unrelated photograph of a Yucca plant in the desert.

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Scenes in the San Gabriel Mountains: Echo Mountain; Mt. Lowe Railway and Alpine Tavern; Rubio Canyon

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Photographs made by Adam Clark Vroman, ca. 1892-1909, spanning various subjects, primarily his bookstore in Pasadena, California, and scenes from his travels. Of particular significance is Vroman's handwritten journal of a trip to see the Snake Dance at Walpi, Arizona, in 1895, written sequentially on the back of 19 mounted photographs. Vroman's traveling companions were Horatio N. Rust, Mrs. Thaddeus (Leontine) Lowe, and Charles J. Crandall, who are shown, along with Vroman, at pueblos, and traveling with supplies and wagons. There are also views of the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest. The California images include scenery and travelers in the San Gabriel Mountains, Mount Wilson, Mount Lowe and the Alpine Tavern, and travelers having a picnic; details of missions; historic adobes of Monterey; Rancho Guajome Adobe in San Diego County; Yosemite and one view of Indians living in Yosemite Valley. Locations depicted in other parts of the United States are: Manitou, Colorado; Oregon, Illinois; Niagara Falls; Grant's Tomb; a bird's-eye-view of Santa Fe, New Mexico; and other miscellaneous views. Vroman travelled to Japan in 1903 and 1909, and eight prints in the collection show Japanese men and women in traditional dress, as well as details of architecture. Vroman appears in a few photographs. There are several portraits of Pueblo Indian men, some identified in Vroman's captions.

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George Washington Felt journal

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The journal covers Felt's voyages on board the ship Rival from Boston to San Francisco, San Francisco to Callao, Peru, and then from Callao to Hampton Roads. Felt gives great detail regarding the events on board the ship, fights among the crew, daily chores and duties, ships and locations passed, the weather and sea conditions, and the longitude and latitude of the ship. The last few pages of the journal are "reminiscences" Felt wrote after the voyage regarding his feelings about being a sailor and his memories of San Francisco (including a visit to a Chinese Temple), and Callao and the Chincha Islands, Peru. Scattered throughout the journal are sketches of ships drawn by Felt; also included is a photo of Felt.

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View of Thunder Mountain from Zuni

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Visitor register of Echo Mountain House

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