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LA & San Gabriel Valley RR crossing Colorado St, Pasadena

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Description: Train tracks of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad run horizontally in the foreground, with a few men scattered around them on Colorado Street in Pasadena, California. A horse-drawn cart on the left, and businesses, including a lumber yard and carpenter shop are on the right.
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Date: 1885
Call number: photPF 558
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LA & San Gabriel Valley RR crossing Columbia St., Pasadena, 1885

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View down a railroad track of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad running under a wooden bridge at Columbia Street in Pasadena, California. The bridge spans a wide trench dug into the ground for the tracks. Another similar bridge is ahead in the distance.

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Colorado Ave. Sept. 16 -- 1885, opening of L.A. & S.G.V. RR Pasadena

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View down the wide dirt road of Colorado Street in Pasadena, California, filled with people and horse-drawn carriages on September 16, 1885, the day of a celebration for the opening of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad line between downtown Los Angeles and Pasadena. Business line the right side of the street, empty lots in the foreground of the left. All are headed in one direction up the road. Visible signs on the buildings read "Carpenter Shop" and "Lumber Yard" and the Ward Block building is visible at left.

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Residence in the San Gabriel Valley

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The two-story residence of Nathaniel C. Carter on the Willow Dale estate in San Gabriel (now San Marino, California), with porch, sits on a gentle slope with a fenced-in garden in front. To the left, a horse-drawn carriage and a woman astride another horse, and a vineyard is planted in the foreground.

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View from Lake Vineyard, B. D. Wilson's, San Gabriel

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Landscape view of an orchard and trees on the Lake Vineyard property owned by Benjamin Davis Wilson in San Gabriel (now mainly part of San Marino, California), with a path made by parallel wheel tracks running horizontally in the foreground and the San Gabriel Mountains visible in the background.

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View in the San Gabriel Valley

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A dirt road forks in the foreground. On the right, the road runs beside a wood-post fence with orchards and trees behind it on the Willow Dale estate of Nathaniel C. Carter in San Gabriel (now San Marino, California). On the left is empty, open land.

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Native homes, San Gabriel, Cal

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Two narrow thatched-roof structures stand side-by-side. A group of young girls are gathered near the opening between the two. Two cats and a horse are in the yard surrounding home.

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LA & San Gabriel Valley RR crossing Colorado St, Pasadena

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