Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Two Chinese laborers in conical hats stand at the back of a four-wheeled cart. Another worker is in the bed of the cart. Two wooden crates of grapes sit on the ground to the right, the vineyard and mountains in the background.
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Several men work in a vineyard, some carrying wooden baskets on their shoulders, one on horseback, and two standing on a card full of wooden crates.
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A Chinese man stands in front of a tree, a piece of paper with Chinese characters hung on the tree over his head. To the left, the front door of an adobe building, several bamboo conical hats hung on the outer wall. To the right, a wooden table and miscellaneous items. In the background is a wooded area.
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Side-by-side stereograph image of a vineyard of full grape vines. The vineyard stretches a distance to a grove trees, and then mountains.
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A horse-drawn cart and two laborers in the middle of a vineyard, seen from a distance. Mountains in the background.
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This collection consists of one photograph album with 48 photographs and 35 loose photographs (as well as some duplicates), with images depicting the Fair Oaks Ranch in Altadena, California, during the late 19th century. The ranch, owned by businessman and rancher James F. Crank, encompassed a vineyard, winery, and citrus orchards, along with a lavish residence and grounds. Subjects include interior and exterior views of the residence, landscaped grounds, trees, and plant life; members of the Crank family; ranch workers, including Chinese laborers, working in the orchards and vineyard, harvesting and packing fruit, drying apricots, and loading fruit onto horse-drawn carts; workers' quarters; the operations of the winery and distillery; and also a handful of sweeping views of the San Gabriel Mountains and the Altadena and Pasadena areas taken from vantage points on the property. The photographer of the album is unknown; some of the cabinet cards and stereographs have imprints from area photographers: C. McMurtrey (Item 80), C.B. Ripley (Items 73-74), and A.C. Varela (Items 76-78). Photographs in the album are cyanotype prints; the loose photographs include cyanotypes, cabinet cards, and stereographs.
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