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Mt. Lowe Alpine Tavern

Description: A view of the Mt. Lowe Tavern in the San Gabriel Mountains.
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Call number: photCL Pierce 04985
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Alpine. Mt. Lowe Ry

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View of passengers in a cable car of the Mount Lowe Railway on Mount Lowe, in the San Gabriel Mountains, California.

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Echo Mountain and Mt. Lowe in winter, from Pasadena

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A view of Echo Mt. and Mt. Lowe from Pasadena with snow on the mountains and houses and orange groves visible in the foreground.

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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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Scenes in the San Gabriel Mountains: Echo Mountain; Mt. Lowe Railway and Alpine Tavern; Rubio Canyon

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Photographs made by Adam Clark Vroman, ca. 1892-1909, spanning various subjects, primarily his bookstore in Pasadena, California, and scenes from his travels. Of particular significance is Vroman's handwritten journal of a trip to see the Snake Dance at Walpi, Arizona, in 1895, written sequentially on the back of 19 mounted photographs. Vroman's traveling companions were Horatio N. Rust, Mrs. Thaddeus (Leontine) Lowe, and Charles J. Crandall, who are shown, along with Vroman, at pueblos, and traveling with supplies and wagons. There are also views of the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest. The California images include scenery and travelers in the San Gabriel Mountains, Mount Wilson, Mount Lowe and the Alpine Tavern, and travelers having a picnic; details of missions; historic adobes of Monterey; Rancho Guajome Adobe in San Diego County; Yosemite and one view of Indians living in Yosemite Valley. Locations depicted in other parts of the United States are: Manitou, Colorado; Oregon, Illinois; Niagara Falls; Grant's Tomb; a bird's-eye-view of Santa Fe, New Mexico; and other miscellaneous views. Vroman travelled to Japan in 1903 and 1909, and eight prints in the collection show Japanese men and women in traditional dress, as well as details of architecture. Vroman appears in a few photographs. There are several portraits of Pueblo Indian men, some identified in Vroman's captions.