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Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., Cal

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Description: Sweeping view of agricultural fields in Pasadena, California, with a wood frame house with ladder in the foreground. Behind that, a large oak tree and a few other houses scattered in the distance.
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Date: approximately 1877-approximately 1880
Call number: photST Watkins
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E (1829-1916)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of; Items were received from various sources. When known, provenance information is written on the stereograph verso. Donors include Carter, 1937; and many were received as part of the Historical Society of Southern California Collection, 1992, and are stamped "Society of California Pioneers, Chas. B. Turrill Collection."

Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., Cal

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Sweeping view of agricultural fields in Pasadena, California, with a wood frame house with ladder in the foreground. Behind that, a few other houses scattered in the distance.

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Sunny Slope from the North, San Gabriel, Los Angeles Co., Cal

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View of a vineyard in the foreground, with winery, and other outbuildings in the distance on the Sunny Slope ranch owned by L. J. Rose in San Gabriel, California.

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E. Locke's residence, Pasadena, Cal

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An orchard of young trees in the foreground. In the distance there is the one-story house of E. Locke, with a wide porch and a barn, in Pasadena, California.

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H. G. Newton's residence, Pasadena, Cal

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A man in left foreground digs at the ground with a long pole, a small dog to the right. Behind him is an orchard of young trees, the two-story home with a wraparound porch of H. G. Newton, and a couple of outbuildings in Pasadena, California.

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Presbyterian Church, Pasadena, Cal

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A one-room Presbyterian church in Pasadena, California, sits alone in an open area. A man in dark clothing stands on the front steps, and a horse-drawn carriage is next to a wood post fence behind the building.

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Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., Cal

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This collection contains 269 stereographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins, dating from the 1860s to about the 1880s, that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California. The collection includes 1 stereograph from the Central Pacific Railroad series; 5 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Railroad Series; 110 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Coast series; and 150 stereographs from Watkins' New Series. The Watkins' Pacific Coast Series, created between 1861 and 1874, primarily depict locales in Northern California with many images of buildings in San Francisco, views of Yosemite and Mariposa County, Missions, and some mining operations including photographs of the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company in Nevada County, California. The Watkins' New Series stereographs, created between 1874 and 1890, consist of images of both Southern California and Northern California, in cities including San Francisco, Pasadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre, and San Gabriel. Among the Southern California residences and properties depicted include the Sunny Slope Ranch of L.J. Rose in San Gabriel, Willow Dale owned by N.C. Carter, and Lake Vineyard owned by B.D. Wilson. Some of the stereographs in Watkins' Pacific Coast Series include titles in the margins in Watkins' own hand (see Nos. 1033, 1135, 1146, 1153, and 1721).

Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., Cal

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