Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
Photographs of the American West, dating from the 1870s to the 1890s, collected by Carl S. Dentzel (1913-1980), director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California, including a disbound album of photographs of Alaska taken by A. L. Broadbent. These views show Revenue Cutter Service ships and officers; Alaskan natives; towns; scenery; the fur trade and mission schools. Other notable photographs in this collection include portraits of John C. Frémont, Harrison Gray Otis, and John A. Sutter; a series of Lake Tahoe card photographs; and views of early western settlers around the time of the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. The collection also depicts Alaskan native graves; missionaries; walrus hunting; whaling ships; totem poles; officers in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service; vacationers throughout California; the logging industry; Kingston, New Mexico; Greek Orthodox church buildings; the first grand jury in Nome, Alaska; James Gilchrist Swan; and a portrait of one of the collection's photographers, Alfred Lee Broadbent. Photographers who contributed to this collection include William C. Billington, Alfred Lee Broadbent, F. Davey, Edward De Groff, Charles D. Kirkland, D. S. Mitchell, C.H. Shaffner, Julius Ulke, and Raper James Waters.
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Manuscripts
Black and white photograph of the exterior of the guest quarters at Merrick Lake in a wooded area of Vermejo Ranch. The photo is labeled "#5 Guest cabin - 5 rooms." Accompanying map drawn on brown paper indicates the structure was one of 4 structures at the lake, accompanying a kitchen/dining building, a cabin with storage and 3 bedrooms, and a recreation house. Notes indicate "general condition very poor, especially the roof on each cabin."
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Manuscripts
Black and white photograph of the exterior of the recreation house at Merrick Lake in a wooded area of Vermejo Ranch. The photo is labeled "#5 Recreation cabin." Accompanying map drawn on brown paper indicates the structure was one of 4 structures at the lake, accompanying a kitchen/dining building, a cabin with 5 bedrooms, and one with 3 more bedrooms and a storeroom. Notes indicate "general condition very poor, especially the roof on each cabin."
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Manuscripts
Black and white photograph of the exterior of the dining/kitchen cabin at Merrick Lake in a wooded area of Vermejo Ranch. The photo is labeled "#5 end view dining room." Accompanying map drawn on brown paper indicates the structure was one of 4 structures at the lake, accompanying a recreation house, a cabin with 5 bedrooms, and one with 3 more bedrooms and a storeroom. Notes indicate "general condition very poor, especially the roof on each cabin."
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Manuscripts
Black and white photograph of the exterior of the staff quarters at Merrick Lake in a wooded area of Vermejo Ranch. The photo is labeled "#5 Help quarters and store room." Accompanying map drawn on brown paper indicates the structure was one of 4 structures at the lake, accompanying a kitchen/dining building, a cabin with 5 bedrooms, and a recreation house. Notes indicate "general condition very poor, especially the roof on each cabin."
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Manuscripts
Black and white photograph of the exterior of the dining/kitchen cabin at Merrick Lake in a wooded area of Vermejo Ranch. Piles of lumber or firewood visible in foreground. The photo is labeled "#5 kitchen & dining room." Accompanying map drawn on brown paper indicates the structure was one of 4 structures at the lake, accompanying a recreation house, a cabin with 5 bedrooms, and one with 3 more bedrooms and a storeroom. Notes indicate "general condition very poor, especially the roof on each cabin."
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