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Governor Pio Pico's one-story adobe office, 1895



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    Pio Pico adobe on road to Whittier

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    View of an adobe structure with a shingled roof and decorative porches on one end.

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    Pico, Pio

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    5 items: article copy, Journal of the West, 7/1963, pp. 281-304, "Pio Pico Mansion...Fact, fiction and supposition" ; LAT article copy, 5/31/1970, visible headline on the jump "Two Picos generations apart" ; LAT article copy, 8/6/1974, "Pio Pico dies...grandson of last Mexican governor of California" ; tear sheet, (L.A.) Daily News, 1/16/1982, "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like her adobe" (story is specifically about the ANDRES PICO adobe - Pio's brother) ; LAT tear sheet, 10/2/1983, "Pio Pico lives on in California folklore" ; LAT tear sheet, 7/31/1988, "History lesson with putty knife...chipping away at Pico Hacienda."

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  • Home of Governor Pio Pico, El Ranchito, Whittier, California

    Home of Governor Pio Pico, El Ranchito, Whittier, California

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    Image of El Ranchito in Whittier, California, a former adobe residence of Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California. Carved double doors can be seen off of an open patio and a balcony.

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  • Governor Pio Pico at age 90

    Governor Pio Pico at age 90

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    Portrait of Pio Pico.

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  • Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California

    Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California

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    Photograph of a painted portrait of Pio Pico.

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    Views of the Pío Pico adobe and ranch

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    Three card photographs depict the El Ranchito adobe and ranch property of Pío Pico in Whittier, California, with two showing the exteriors of adobe ranch buildings with Hispanic men, women, and children standing in front, and one depicting the exterior of the two-story adobe house with Pío Pico standing on a balcony with Pasadena naturalist Jeanne Carr. The photographs are by Pasadena photographers Jarvis (photPF 590) and E.A. Bonine (photPF 591-592).

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