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Winery, Sierra Madre Vintage Co
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Fountain at the Sierra Madre Villa Hotel
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A round pool with a fountain in the foreground, presumably located in front of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in present-day Sierra Madre, California. Behind it, trees and landscaped grounds.
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Sierra Madre Villa, San Gabriel
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Long, two-story hotel building with a wraparound porch and landscaped grounds of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in San Gabriel (now Sierra Madre, California), with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background and citrus trees in the foreground. Several people sit out on the lawn and on porch.
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Sierra Madre Vintage Company correspondence and printed material
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The collection consists of 450 items from 1875 to 1929, and includes letters, manuscripts, business documents, and 32 maps and drawings related to the business interests of James Filmore Crank and the development of Los Angeles County. Of particular note is the collection's focus on city and interurban railways, including the Los Angeles Cable Railway Co., Pacific Railway Co., Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad Co., and Los Angeles Development Co. There are also materials related to the wine industry (Sierra Madre Vintage Co. and Lamanda Park, California), the Fair Oaks Ranch in Pasadena, the Azusa Land and Water Co., and education in California private schools during the late nineteenth century. Correspondents in the collection include: John Dustin Bicknell, Albert Filmore Crank, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Joseph H. Hoadley, Collis Potter Huntington, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Edwin Burritt Smith.
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Cogswell's Sierra Madre Villa, W.P. Rhoades Lessee, Los Angeles Co., Cal
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The long, two-story building of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in what is now Sierra Madre, California, owned by William F. Cogswell, with many windows, sits on a slight hill in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. A group of smaller buildings sit to the right. A forked, dirt road lined with shrub plants and young trees leads up to buildings.
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Apiary at Sierra Madre Villa, San Gabriel
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Seen from a distance, rows of white hive boxes, and two small buildings related to the beekeeping business of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in San Gabriel (now Sierra Madre, California). In the foreground, there is a rocky hill covered with scrub brush and the San Gabriel Mountains in the background.
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Cabinet card photographs of San Gabriel Valley, California and Catalina Island tourist party
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Contents: Winery buildings of Sierra Madre Vintage Company; Old Mill cistern; Lamanda Park station of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; men on horses at sugar beet ranch (exact location not identified); banana tree and date palm; burros at hitching post in San Gabriel Mountains(?); men, women and children on horses, posed for a group photograph at Avalon, Catalina Island, in front of Hotel Metropole, with Grand View Hotel in background.
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