Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
View from a hill down into a yard bordered by a white picket fence on the Lake Vineyard estate owned by Benjamin Davis Wilson in San Gabriel (now mainly part of San Marino, California). A dirt road leads through an opening in the gate. A large weeping willow tree stands to the right, trees and orchards in the distance.
photCL 74 (596)
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Landscape view of land and mountains in Pasadena, California. In the foreground, a young vineyard, and a line of trees, followed by a young orchard, empty fields, scattered buildings (including a two-story house at right and a schoolhouse next to a large tree at left, with children playing nearby), another line of orchards, and the San Gabriel Mountains in the far distance.
photCL 74 (557)
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A panoramic view of the San Gabriel Mountains taken from the flat roof of a building. The shadow of the photographer is visible on the right.
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A panoramic view of the grounds and cabins at Camp Seely in the San Bernardino Mountains. A dirt road runs the width of the image, beyond which there are rows of cabins which stretch up the side of a hill. Two boys in the bottom left corner are playing with a ball (possibly a volleyball?) and a group of children are sitting in the shade left of the cabins, on the far side of the road. Writing in white in the bottom left reads "Photo No. 100555". Below the ms. note there is a stamp reading "Pettit's Studio ; commercial photographers ; 1416 W. Pico Blvd. ; Richmond 8534 ; Los Angeles 15, Calif."
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The long, two-story building of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in San Gabriel (now Sierra Madre, California), owned by William F. Cogswell, with many windows, sits on a slight hill in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. A group of smaller buildings sit to the right. A forked, dirt road lined with shrub plants and young trees leads up to buildings.
photCL 74 (592)
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View of cottages that comprised part of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in what is now Sierra Madre, California, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, with men and women on the porches, and a child with a baby carriage on the dirt path. Small trees are planted in the foreground.
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