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Colorado Boulevard looking east from the Hotel Maryland, Pasadena. approximately 1909
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Hotel Maryland, East Colorado, Pasadena. approximately 1910
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A panoramic street view of the Hotel Maryland on East Colorado, between Euclid and Los Robles. There are several automobiles parked along the street, and an electric streetcar travels along the street on the right.
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Hotel Maryland, East Colorado, Pasadena. approximately 1913
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A panoramic street view of the Hotel Maryland on East Colorado between Euclid and Los Robles. Vines have overgrown the walls of the first two stories and stretch as far as the roof in places. Automobiles are parked on the street in front of the hotel, and cables run overhead for streetcars.
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East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena
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A panoramic view of the north side of East Colorado Boulevard. The building slightly right of center on the opposite side of the street is the Pashgian Building at 261 East Colorado. A building on the near side of the street has a "Boadway Bros. Dry Goods" sign on the wall; Boadway Brothers were at 268-278 East Colorado. There are numerous automobiles parked along the street, and a few are driving on it.
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Looking east on Colorado Boulevard from Maryland Hotel on Los Robles, Pasadena
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The Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 5157 glass plate negatives, film negatives, and panoramic negatives, 1889-1949, that depict commercial, residential and landscape sites in and around Pasadena and Southern California. The images provide a look at the commercial, residential and social development of Pasadena and surrounding areas during the early years of the twentieth century. The collection is especially rich in images of residential architecture in Pasadena, Altadena, and San Marino; images of Lake Tahoe; depictions of, and activities at, the Raymond, Maryland, and Huntington Hotels in Pasadena; and the commercial, social and cultural landscapes of Pasadena. The collection also provides, through its breadth and depth of subject matter, an example of the career activities of a commercial photographer in Southern California in the early years of the twentieth century.
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Maryland Hotel, 411 East Colorado, Pasadena. 1937
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Street view of the Maryland Hotel at 411 East Colorado. Other businesses on this stretch of Colorado include Postal Telegraph, Sherwin Williams Paints & Wallpapers, and Sears Roebuck & Co. The street is lined with parked automobiles, and there are also some moving ones.
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Colorado Street looking east from Marengo, Pasadena. 1889
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An elevated street view of Colorado facing east, taken from the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the corner of Colorado and Marengo. The street is residential, with houses set well back behind large lawns. "E.S. Frost & Sons Pasadena, Cal." is printed below the image. A typescript note attached to the top of the image reads "M.E. Church, corner of Colorado St. & Marengo Ave. looking east. 1889."
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