Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
A broad view of the desert garden with the palm garden in the background. MS note on verso reads "Desert garden c. 1930?"
photCL 107 fld3 (20)
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View of a rock lined path through the desert garden with palm trees in the background. MS note on verso reads "Desert garden c. 1930?"
photCL 107 fld3 (19)
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A view of the desert garden with palms visible in the background. The label that accompanies this photo in the album reads "No. 69 Cactus garden, about 1916."
photCL 107 vol3 pg41
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An early image of the desert garden. The label that accompanies this photo in the album reads "No. 66 Cactus and palm gardens, about 1909."
photCL 107 vol3 pg37
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A group of 8 x 10-inch, black-and-white photographs of desert plant specimens in the Huntington Desert Garden, taken approximately 1928-1940 by an unknown photographer. The photographs show agave, aloe, cacti, euphorbia and others, and most have typed labels with species names, country of origin, and descriptive information. Several plants were cultivated from Mexico. This collection also contains two photographs of trees in open fields in Pasadena, a Valley Oak and a Monterey Cypress.
photCL 473
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Swans swim past a roughly built wooden bridge over part of the reservoir. The desert and palm gardens are in the background, and at the top of the hill the Huntington residence is under construction. The label that accompanies this photo in the album reads "No. 65 Cactus and palm garden, about 1909."
photCL 107 vol3 pg38