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View at Lake Vineyard, San Gabriel, Cal
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View from Lake Vineyard, B.D. Wilson's, San Gabriel
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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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View at Lake Vineyard, San Gabriel, Cal
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Distant view of a large house that sits atop a hill. It overlooks agricultural fields and grounds. In the foreground is a vineyard with a gnarled tree trunk on the right.
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Residence of J. De Barth Shorb, Esq. San Gabriel
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Seen from the Lake Vineyard estate of B. D. Wilson, in the distance is the two-story mansion of James De Barth Shorb in San Gabriel (now San Marino, California), with a wide porch sitting on a hilltop. In the foreground is a line of trees, and further in the distance an orchard.
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View from Lake Vineyard, B. D. Wilson's, San Gabriel
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Trees dot the landscape, and wood post fencing runs along the foreground and to the right, stretching far into the distance as seen from the Lake Vineyard estate owned by B. D. Wilson in San Gabriel (now mainly part of San Marino, California).
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Lake Vineyard Wine Co. Account sheet and miscellaneous papers [5 items]. San Gabriel, California
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The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.
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[In the Orange Orchards at Lake Vineyard, San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County]
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[Watkins no. 1160] View from Lake Vineyard, residence of B. D. Wilson, San Gabriel.
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