Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Flowers, trees, and a prickly pear cactus are planted in the manicured garden of Nathaniel C. Carter on his Willow Dale estate in San Gabriel (now San Marino, California). The area is surrounded by wood fencing.
photPF 792
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The two-story home of Nathaniel C. Carter on his Willow Dale estate in San Gabriel (now San Marino, California), with a long porch and a garden bordered with a picket fence and rows of grape vines in front of it. A man and a woman stand on porch, a woman on horseback is near the side of house, and a cat rests near the driveway.
photST Watkins
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Visual Materials
This collection contains 430 albumen photographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California in the 1870s and 1880s, as well as 223 card photographs by photographer Alfred A. Hart documenting the construction of the western half of the transcontinental railroad by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in the 1860s, which were later published by Watkins under his own imprint. Images by Watkins depict locations in Arizona and California including: Lake Tahoe, Los Angeles, the Mammoth Tree Grove, Paso Robles, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Gabriel, San Luis Obispo, San Pedro, Santa Monica, Soda Springs, Wilmington, and Yosemite, as well as views related to the Southern Pacific Railroad and of the Colorado River. There are a few images of Native Americans in Arizona and California, and several images related to trains and railroads. The photographs have been removed from the original album, which is a large leather album with brass bindings (Box 10). There are some handwritten identifications in the album pages, most likely written after if was received by the Library.
photCL 74
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A little boy in a top hat, and little girl stand holding hands on a wood-plank walkway. Behind them is a driveway that runs past a vineyard and up to the two-story residence of Nathaniel C. Carter on the Willow Dale estate in San Gabriel (now San Marino, California).
photPF 795
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Seven card photographs depicting the exterior of the two-story house, front garden, and property of Nathaniel C. Carter, known as Willow Dale (also spelled Willowdale) in San Gabriel (now San Marino, California). The images include photographs by Carleton E. Watkins (photPF 790, 792-796).
photPF 790-796
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Landscape view of a dirt road running along a wood post fence between a vineyard and landscaped garden on the Willow Dale estate of Nathaniel C. Carter in San Gabriel (now San Marino, California). The road forks off in to the left out of frame.
photST Watkins