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LA & San Gabriel Valley RR crossing Colorado St, Pasadena
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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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Colorado St
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View down a business thoroughfare lined with two and three-story buildings and storefronts on Colorado Street in Pasadena, California. People and horse-drawn carriages are scattered on the sidewalks and road. Visible signs on buildings including "Hubbard & Co. Groceries & Queensware,"F. D. Stevens Hardware," the Ward Block, a bank, and a job printing business.
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