Visual Materials
"On Pasadena and Mount Wilson Toll Road." On verso: "Martin's Camp, Mt. Wilson." [View of camp]
- Description
- This small collection contains 17 commercial card photographs taken by Stiffler & Gill around 1896 promoting outdoor recreational activities and the natural scenery around Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California. Many of the scenes include historic camp sites including Strain's and Martin's camps, often depicting people amid tents and engaged in recreational activities. Each of the photographs has the title "On Pasadena and Mount Wilson Toll Road" stamped on the mount.
- Production date
- approximately 1896.
- Call number
- photCL 193
- Provenance
- Purchased from Dawson's, January 1974.
- Dimensions
- mounts 22 x 17 cm
