Echo Mountain and Mt. Lowe in winter, from Pasadena

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  Pasadena from Echo Mt. showing Santa Catalina Island

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  View of the San Gabriel Valley including the city of Pasadena, California, as seen from the San Gabriel Mountains, with the Mount Lowe Observatory visible at right in the foreground and buildlings including the Pacific Electric Railway power station of Mt. Lowe Railroad and the ruins of the Echo Mountain House hotel, which was destroyed by fire in 1900, visible on Echo Mountain at left.

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  Echo Mt. and valley

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  View from Mount Lowe in the San Gabriel Mountains on the buildings of the Echo Mountain House hotel, at left, and the Mt. Lowe Observatory, at right, on Echo Mountain, with the city of Pasadena, California, and the San Gabriel Valley below.

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  Professor Edgar L. Larkin, astronomer, at Mt. Lowe (Echo Mountain) Observatory

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  Professor Larkin standing with his hand on the eyepiece of the telescope at Mt. Lowe Observatory. Moveable stairs are behind him.

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  Mt. Lowe Alpine Tavern

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  A view of the Mt. Lowe Tavern in the San Gabriel Mountains.

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  Passengers on incline railway to Echo Mountain

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  Passengers on a portion of the Mount Lowe Railway cable car incline to Echo Mountain located in the San Gabriel mountains above Pasadena, California. A sign at right says "Echo Mountain 3500 feet above sea level" and the car says "Echo" across the front. A Pacific Electric streetcar is also seen at right. The domed building in the distance is the Mount Lowe Observatory with a telescope on Echo Mountain.

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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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