Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Side-by-side stereograph image of a curved, dirt driveway leading up to the entrance of a Victorian home. Large shade trees on either side of the entrance obscure most of the house except for porch.
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A small, one-story brick dwelling sitting amid trees and thick foliage. Wooden fruit crates are scattered around a flat area in the front. Several shovels and other tools lean on one side of the building.
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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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Side-by-side stereograph images of a row of men and women, one holding an infant, seen from a distance. They stand in front of a brick, one-story house with trees in front and back. In the foreground, a flat, dirt area with scattered scrub and weeds.
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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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Side-by-side stereographic image of a one-story clapboard house and a group of people on the front lawn. Three people sit in rocking chairs, a child rides a tricycle, one man sits astride a horse, and another stands beside a horse-drawn carriage. A round pool with a fountain is in the foreground. Shade trees surround the house.
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