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Sunny Slope Ranch, various views

Description: Includes stereographs by W. M. Godfrey, No. 41 of Grape Gathering at Sunny Slope (Items 14 and 14a), approximately 1870, and a variant of No. 40 of L.J. Rose's Residence (Item 13a).
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Production date: 1888-1979.
Call number: photCL 156
Creator: Rose, L. J (1827-1899)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Markel Gallagher, February 1980.; Gift of William J. Coffill, July 2015.
Associated people: Godfrey, W. M. (1825-1900,)

Sunny Slope Ranch, various views (includes photographs by C. E. Watkins)

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All photographs by Watkins date to 1877 or 1880. Includes a cabinet card photograph of the Sunny Slope Ranch winery and vineyard by photographer E.C. Bichowsky (item 15); two Carleton Watkins stereographs (items 19a and 24a); and unmounted 9.5 x 15.5 cm prints by Watkins corresponding to published Watkins' New Series stereographs: Watkins' New Series #4419 View from Lake Vineyard, B.D. Wilson's, San Gabriel (left side) and #4420 (right side) (Item 17) Watkins' New Series #4432 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 18) Stereograph number unidentified [view of Sunny Slope vineyard] (Item 23) Watkins' New Series #4458 Palm Trees, San Gabriel (Item 20) Watkins' New Series #4433 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 21) Watkins' New Series #4435 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 22) Stereograph number unidentified [View of road leading to Rose residence] (Item 23) Watkins' New Series #4431 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 24) Watkins' New Series #4439 A Bee Ranch, San Gabriel, Cal. (Item 25) Watkins' New Series #4448 Old Adobe, Mission San Gabriel, Cal. (Item 26) Watkins' New Series #4449 [Adobe building] (Item 27) Watkins' New Series #4630 Mission San Gabriel, Estab. Sept. 8th, 1771, Cal. (Item 28) Watkins' New Series #4631 Mission San Gabriel, Estab. Sept. 8th. 1771, Cal. (Item 29)

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C. E. Watkins' New Series #4427 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq. Sunny Slope, San Gab'l

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This collection contains 152 photographs of the family of Leonard John Rose (1827-1899), the Rose family's ranch and vineyard "Sunny Slope" in San Gabriel, California, their residences, and horses owned by the family, chiefly dating from the late 19th century. Many of the photographs are cabinet card studio portraits of family members, especially the children of L. J. and Amanda Rose, including Nina Rose Wachtel (and her husband John V. Wachtel), Guy Rose, Mabel Rose Dixon, Maud Rose Easton. Many of the card photographs have imprints of Los Angeles photography studios including Steckel & Lamson and T.G. Schumacher. Among the photographs of the Sunny Slope Farm are stereographs by W.M. Godfrey (Volume 1, Items 13a and 14-14a) and stereographs and unmounted prints by Carleton Watkins (Album 1, Items 17-29 and 75 and 76).

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C. E. Watkins' New Series stereograph #4434 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq. Sunny Slope, Sa Gab'l

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Panorama of the Rosemead Ranch barns

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House on Rosemead Ranch [photograph by F.G. Schumacher]

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Views of Sunny Slope Ranch and other ranches in the San Gabriel Valley, California

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Six boudoir and cabinet card-sized photographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins depicting the vineyard, winery and distillery buildings of the Sunny Slope Ranch of L.J. Rose in San Gabriel, California; also including a view of the house of Colonel E.J.C. Kewen on his El Molino estate in what is now San Marino, California (known later as the "Old Mill"; photPF 497); a view of Native American women and children sitting in front of two thatched-roof dwellings (photPF 499). There is also one landscape view of citrus groves and houses in Pasadena, California, by T. G. Norton (photPF 495), as well as one modern copy print of Rose's Sunny Slope house by Watkins (photPF 498).

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Sunny Slope Ranch, various views

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Sunny Slope Ranch, various views (includes photographs by C. E. Watkins)

C. E. Watkins' New Series #4427 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq. Sunny Slope, San Gab'l

C. E. Watkins' New Series stereograph #4434 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq. Sunny Slope, Sa Gab'l

Panorama of the Rosemead Ranch barns

House on Rosemead Ranch [photograph by F.G. Schumacher]

Views of Sunny Slope Ranch and other ranches in the San Gabriel Valley, California