Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
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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A man wearing a cowboy hat and ascot holds a large tray of apricots near a wooden cabinet fitted with shelves. Behind that is a grove of fruit trees, and mountains in the distance.
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A group of Chinese laborers wearing conical hats, pick grapes in a vineyard. Some are using wooden tubs to collect the grapes, others place them in wooden crates. Vineyard stretches out to the horizon ending at a line of trees.
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Calm water in a reservoir with built concrete walls around it. A post fence stretches behind reservoir, and behind that is a small, wood-frame house. Trees and mountains in the background.
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Four laborers work in a vineyard on the Lake Vineyard estate owned by Benjamin Davis Wilson in San Gabriel (now mainly part of San Marino, California), surrounded by rows of grape vines, with winery buildings in the background, the James De Barth Shorb house visible on a hill at right, and the San Gabriel Mountains in the distance.
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Visual Materials
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. The photographs in the album are cyanotype prints dating from around 1889; the loose photographs include cyanotypes, cabinet cards, and stereographs that date from the late 1870s to about 1900. The last page of the album contains a travel sketch in pencil, followed by sketches of a room interior and floor plan on two pages laid in. 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, but Item 46 shows a wood hutch with a mirror in which the photographer and camera are reflected. 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). Titles have been transcribed from captions on album pages and photo-mounts when present; titles devised by the cataloger are enclosed in square brackets. Additional information was gathered from notes on the backs of some photographs. Approximate dates for the collection were devised by the cataloger based on years noted on certain items, the general history of the property and Crank family, and also on a year visible on a calendar in Item 46. Thirteen photographs have duplicates in the collection, which are noted in the inventory below.
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