Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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A mule team pulling a wagon loaded with lumber. Lumber stacked on the ground in foreground.
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A collection of photographs documenting miner Robert S. Watt and family living in the mountains of Los Angeles County at the turn of the 20th century. Views show daily activities and places visited; people hunting and living in cabins; horses; and a few group portraits, such as Los Angeles County Hospital Nurses on a picnic (1905) with names written on back. Other views show ships and a harbor, possibly in San Pedro, California; Los Angeles buildings (Plaza Church and County Courthouse) and oil wells. Mining scenes include the Watt Mines Supply Co. building in Los Angeles; men at an excavation; stamp mill machinery; a man standing at entrance to mine; and mule teams with supplies. There is also a group of photographs of Alaska, showing trappers, roadhouses, scenery, and a miner staking a claim on a river. There are also two U.S. citizenship certificates for Robert S. Watt (1890) and Alexander Barrie (1901), emigrants from Scotland.
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A copy of a photograph that appeared in Out West magazine, 1907, with the caption "A busy day at the San Pedro wharves." The view shows workers loading lumber on the wharf at San Pedro Harbor (present-day Los Angeles Harbor), with ships moored along the dock.
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View of the lumber yards on the docks at Terminal Island. Signal Hill is in the background.
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A Victorian mansion sits on an incline up from a dirt road. Trees dot the front yard. A man with a lawnmower stands in the foreground to the right.
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A Victorian mansion sits on an incline with trees growing in the front yard. Several men stand outside near the porch, and two men stand on an upper balcony.
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