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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
A simple, one-story house with porch on the Sunny Slope ranch of L. J. Rose in San Gabriel, California. Three people, presumably ranch employees are on the porch, a man in a chair, a woman standing, and a man sitting on the edge of porch.
photST Watkins
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A view of a Cahuilla Indian woman seated with a child on her lap sitting in front of a adobe house.
photCL Pierce 01771
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A collection of glass plate and film negatives by amateur photographer and Los Angeles real estate broker George P. Thresher focusing on the American Southwest and Native Americans of the region, particularly of Arizona, and the Gila River crossing area, from ca. 1898 to 1910. The majority of the Thresher Collection contains images of towns and sites in Arizona, including Phoenix, Mission San Xavier del Bac, Montezuma Castle, Peach Springs, and adobe ruins. Photographs of Texas are well represented in the collection, including many views of Missions San Concepcion, San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo), San Francisco de la Espada, and Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo. There are also images of Colorado (Garden of the Gods, Pike's Peak, and Castle Rock), New Mexico (Santa Fe, Tesuque, and possibly Laguna), and unidentified pueblos. Notable portraits from California are of Victoriano, chief of the Soboba Indians, and his unnamed third wife. There is a separate and very interesting sequence of images depicting the Mount Beauty Mine and its operations in San Diego County, California. A small assortment of lantern slides is at the end of the collection showing Indians of Arizona, California, and New Mexico.
photCL 449
Manuscripts
An older woman sits on a wide porch with a little girl to her right, and another person wearing a satin Western style shirt to the left.
mssJL JLP 415
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Photo of native man sitting in chair and native woman sitting on floor beside him weaving a basket.
photCL 39 (233)
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Image of an advertisement for Scribner's magazine September 1904 issue featuring a woman and a little girl standing next to a pond watching a pair of swans; the girl's hat is sitting on the ground next to her feet; gazebo on a hill in background.
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