Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Distant view of a bee yard, including dozens of hive boxes set in rows across the landscape with a one-story building in the middle related to the beekeeping business of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in San Gabriel (now Sierra Madre, California). In the foreground is a low hill covered in scrub brush, and the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains are in the background.
photCL 74 (593)
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View of the San Marino station with a grove of trees in the background.
photCL Pierce 04926
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The long, two-story building of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in San Gabriel (now Sierra Madre, California), owned by William F. Cogswell, with many windows, sits on a slight hill in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. A group of smaller buildings sit to the right. A forked, dirt road lined with shrub plants and young trees leads up to buildings.
photCL 74 (592)
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A round pool with a fountain in the foreground, presumably located in front of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in present-day Sierra Madre, California. Behind it, trees and landscaped grounds.
photPF 447
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A set of 55 photographs chiefly depicting North Pasadena, Sierra Madre, and the San Gabriel Mountains and foothills, with a few images of Pasadena and Los Angeles, taken chiefly by unidentified photographers, plus later prints from 19 of the photographs. The photographs show residences, including the home of Sierra Madre founder Nathaniel Coburn Carter, which he named Carterhia, one view encompassing a lake in the foreground and the San Gabriel Valley beyond; one view depicting Nathaniel Carter in the foreground and Carter's wife, Annetta M. Carter, standing on the balcony next to wisteria vines; and several views of the house, some with people on burros in front (Box 1, Items 5-6, 24-27). Other homes depicted include the residence of Levi Richardson, also in Sierra Madre (Box 1, Item 10); views of an unidentified dwelling in the foothills, with a large gathering of men, women, and children in front, one playing a guitar and one sitting in a wheelbarrow, and American flags planted on the hillside (Items Box 1, Items 1-4); and homes draped by wisteria and ivy. Photographs also show mountain and forest scenery; agricultural images including grape vines, fruit trees, and a banana grove; and plants including yucca, roses, and cacti, some with people posing by them. Some photographs are portraits of people, including women posing indoors; people on a trail, among trees or sitting on rocks in the woods, or on railroad tracks; groups of men and women with burros; people on front porches and stairs outside of residences; and an infant on a bed. The collection also includes a few images taken by commercial photographers, including views of an unidentified building taken by [William Mollock?] Godfrey (Box 1, Items 21-23); a man seated on the front steps of a house surrounded by roses and foliage, taken by E. A. Bonine (Box 2, Item 51); a man standing in a cactus garden, taken by William Henry Hill (Box 2, Item 53); a yucca plant, taken by E. S. Frost and Son (Box 2, Item 54); and Los Angeles, with a view Southwest from the courthouse, taken by Park and Company (Box 2, Item 55).
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Long, two-story hotel building with a wraparound porch and landscaped grounds of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in San Gabriel (now Sierra Madre, California), with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background and citrus trees in the foreground. Several people sit out on the lawn and on porch.
photPF 440
photCL 378
