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A bee ranch, San Gabriel

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Description
Seen from a distance, rows of hive boxes and two outbuildings of a beekeeping ranch, with a grassy meadow in the foreground, in San Gabriel (presumably now in the San Gabriel Mountain foothills around Sierra Madre, California).
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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