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Apiary at Sierra Madre Villa, San Gabriel

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Description
Close view of rows of hive boxes set up at the bottom of a hillside related to the beekeeping business of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in San Gabriel (now Sierra Madre, California). An older man stands to the lower right of frame, with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background.
Type
Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
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."
Dimensions
9 x 18 cm (stereograph format)
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