Manuscripts
Sunny Slope Ranch maps
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Sunny Slope Water Company records
Manuscripts
The Sunny Slope Water Company records contain facsimiles of plat confirmations and water maps. The plat confirmations show land that became part of the company's service area, while the maps show the natural and company sources of water.
mssHM 80423-80432
Sunny Slope wine buildings
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A path leads up through a vineyard on the Sunny Slope ranch owned by L. J. Rose in San Gabriel, California, to a one-story building with "Sunny Slope" painted along the upper front. A woman, workers, horses, and carriage stand next to building.
photST Watkins
Sunny Slope wine buildings
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A path leads up through a vineyard, to a one-story building with "Sunny Slope" painted along the upper front, on the Sunny Slope ranch owned by L. J. Rose in San Gabriel, California. A woman and horse-drawn carriage stand next to building.
photCL 74 (559)
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Views of Sunny Slope Ranch and other ranches in the San Gabriel Valley, California
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Six boudoir and cabinet card-sized photographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins depicting the vineyard, winery and distillery buildings of the Sunny Slope Ranch of L.J. Rose in San Gabriel, California; also including a view of the house of Colonel E.J.C. Kewen on his El Molino estate in what is now San Marino, California (known later as the "Old Mill"; photPF 497); a view of Native American women and children sitting in front of two thatched-roof dwellings (photPF 499). There is also one landscape view of citrus groves and houses in Pasadena, California, by T. G. Norton (photPF 495), as well as one modern copy print of Rose's Sunny Slope house by Watkins (photPF 498).
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Sunny Slope Ranch, various views (includes photographs by C. E. Watkins)
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All photographs by Watkins date to 1877 or 1880. Includes a cabinet card photograph of the Sunny Slope Ranch winery and vineyard by photographer E.C. Bichowsky (item 15); two Carleton Watkins stereographs (items 19a and 24a); and unmounted 9.5 x 15.5 cm prints by Watkins corresponding to published Watkins' New Series stereographs: Watkins' New Series #4419 View from Lake Vineyard, B.D. Wilson's, San Gabriel (left side) and #4420 (right side) (Item 17) Watkins' New Series #4432 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 18) Stereograph number unidentified [view of Sunny Slope vineyard] (Item 23) Watkins' New Series #4458 Palm Trees, San Gabriel (Item 20) Watkins' New Series #4433 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 21) Watkins' New Series #4435 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 22) Stereograph number unidentified [View of road leading to Rose residence] (Item 23) Watkins' New Series #4431 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 24) Watkins' New Series #4439 A Bee Ranch, San Gabriel, Cal. (Item 25) Watkins' New Series #4448 Old Adobe, Mission San Gabriel, Cal. (Item 26) Watkins' New Series #4449 [Adobe building] (Item 27) Watkins' New Series #4630 Mission San Gabriel, Estab. Sept. 8th, 1771, Cal. (Item 28) Watkins' New Series #4631 Mission San Gabriel, Estab. Sept. 8th. 1771, Cal. (Item 29)
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Sunny Slope wine buildings
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Workers roll wooden barrels along a wooden track between two winery outbuildings, including the Stern & Rose distillery, at the Sunny Slope ranch owned by L. J. Rose in San Gabriel, California. A long hose goes from a pipe near track into one of the barrels. Outbuildings surround the area.
photST Watkins