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Devil's Gate, Pasadena

Description: View of trees in Arroyo Seco canyon of Pasadena, California. Old pipeline runs through the center of the stream bed. Painted on a rock, to the left of two pipes laid in an X, is the phrase "JESUS died for YOU!" There is other graffiti further up on the rocks, including "Excelsior Steam Laundry" and "Death is Coming Are U Ready."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1880s-1890s
Call number: photCL 435
Creator: Fletcher, W. H(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Mead Kibbey, December 30, 1999.

Two men in stream, Devil's Gate, Arroyo Seco, Pasadena

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View of water running through the Arroyo Seco canyon and water pipes affixed to boulders near Pasadena, California. Two men stand on rocks in the stream, and there is some advertising graffiti on the rock walls that says "Bartlett Music Co. and Kimball Piano, L.A. Ca."

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Devil's Gate, Arroyo Seco, Pasadena

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View of water running through the Arroyo Seco canyon and water pipes affixed to boulders near Pasadena, California. A wooden dam or watershed is seen on the right. The "devil's profile" giving the name "Devil's Gate" can be seen at right center, above the stream.

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Colorado St., Pasadena

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Street view in Pasadena, looking west along Colorado. The Pasadena Drug Company in the building on the right.

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Center of Colorado St. and Raymond Ave., Pasadena

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Street view in Pasadena. The building on the left houses the Pasadena Drug Company.

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Fair Oaks Avenue, Pasadena

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Street view in Pasadena, looking north.

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Devil's Gate Dam, Pasadena

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The Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 5157 glass plate negatives, film negatives, and panoramic negatives, 1889-1949, that depict commercial, residential and landscape sites in and around Pasadena and Southern California. The images provide a look at the commercial, residential and social development of Pasadena and surrounding areas during the early years of the twentieth century. The collection is especially rich in images of residential architecture in Pasadena, Altadena, and San Marino; images of Lake Tahoe; depictions of, and activities at, the Raymond, Maryland, and Huntington Hotels in Pasadena; and the commercial, social and cultural landscapes of Pasadena. The collection also provides, through its breadth and depth of subject matter, an example of the career activities of a commercial photographer in Southern California in the early years of the twentieth century.

Devil's Gate, Pasadena

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