Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Two laborers work with stacks of drying racks filled with apricots. They stand under a large shade tree, empty racks, buckets, and other tools scattered behind them.
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A long and wide wooden drying rack sits in the foreground, fruit groves behind it. In the distance, groves and mountains.
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A woman stands holding her hand to her forehead to shade her face from the sun. She wears a light colored dress with floral detailing. To her left landscaped flowers, to her right, grassy lawn, and behind her pine trees and the mountains in the distance.
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Three women pose for photograph outside in front of an ivy hedge. Women on front left sits on a rustic wood bench holding a box on her lap. Women in back center stands amid the ivy behind her. She wears a wide-brimmed hat, one hand placed on sitting woman's shoulder. Women in the front right sits on the ground wearing a dark dress.
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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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A man with a white beard and hat stands under an old oak tree with thick, expansive branches. A wooden chair sits behind the tree trunk.
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