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South Pasadena facing the San Gabriel Mountains
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San Gabriel Mountains
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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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San Gabriel Valley. 1902
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Views of Mount Lowe in the San Gabriel Mountains
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An album with 26 photographs of Mount Lowe, the observatory and other structures, Echo Mountain, and scenic views of the area in the San Gabriel Mountains near Pasadena, California. Views of the observatory include the dark room, the 10-inch telescope, and astronomer Lewis Swift standing in the observatory doorway. Photographs of other structures show Rubio Pavilion, Echo Mountain House, Mount Lowe Railway, and Professor Thaddeus Lowe on the balcony of the "New Hotel". Views around Mount Lowe show several waterfalls, including the Leontine Falls, a number of small canyons, and a view of the San Gabriel Valley and Pasadena. Some of the images have numbers printed on them; item 7 can be positively identified as the work of C.C. Pierce. Visible photographer numbers consist of 180, 559, 605, 623, 637, 641, 651, 695, 721x, 733, 735, 749, 797, 821, 847, 851, 853, 857, 863, 865, 869, and 871.
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