Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Kinneloa Ranch, Pasadena, Cal. : Oranges, lemons, apricots, olives, guavas, grapes, etc. 335 acres
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The first section of the collection consists of 43 volumes: two William Allen diaries (1878-1879), one Harold Allen diary (1884), and 40 ranch journals from 1879 to 1918. The first volume, written by William Allen in 1878, begins in Europe and continues in Southern California later in the year. Subsequent volumes document primarily the day-to-day activities of the ranch, from pruning to harvesting and irrigating the vineyards and citrus trees. Some writing indicates that there were Chinese laborers on the ranch, and entries in later volumes may have been recorded by one of William Allen's sons, Walter I. Allen, who ran the ranch in later years.
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Manuscripts
A collection of approximately 3,500 items from 1893 to 1938, it consists of the business records of the Pasadena Orange Growers Association. These records deal with the company's organization and operation, consisting chiefly of correspondence and accounts with members of the organization; it includes information about: stockholder's meetings; tax information; daily picking records; pest control; marketing; and shipping. The collection also includes bound volumes of annual reports, stock certificates, various accounts, cash books, and receipts.
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Visual Materials
View looking south from the Southern Methodist Church in Pasadena, California, towards Marengo Avenue (?) with a dirt road, houses, trees, and orchards in the foreground and the Raymond Hotel visible in the distance.
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This collection consists of one photograph album with 48 photographs and 35 loose photographs (as well as some duplicates), with images depicting the Fair Oaks Ranch in Altadena, California, during the late 19th century. The ranch, owned by businessman and rancher James F. Crank, encompassed a vineyard, winery, and citrus orchards, along with a lavish residence and grounds. Subjects include interior and exterior views of the residence, landscaped grounds, trees, and plant life; members of the Crank family; ranch workers, including Chinese laborers, working in the orchards and vineyard, harvesting and packing fruit, drying apricots, and loading fruit onto horse-drawn carts; workers' quarters; the operations of the winery and distillery; and also a handful of sweeping views of the San Gabriel Mountains and the Altadena and Pasadena areas taken from vantage points on the property. The photographer of the album is unknown; some of the cabinet cards and stereographs have imprints from area photographers: C. McMurtrey (Item 80), C.B. Ripley (Items 73-74), and A.C. Varela (Items 76-78). Photographs in the album are cyanotype prints; the loose photographs include cyanotypes, cabinet cards, and stereographs.
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A set of 70 albumen prints on cabinet cards depicting early views of Pasadena, the San Gabriel Valley, Sierra Madre, and environs by E. A. Bonine (1843-1916), an early Pasadena commercial photographer. Images chiefly depict landscapes, gardens and yards, agriculture, and streets and residences in the Pasadena, California, area, including the homes of Orville H. Conger (Item 30), Moritz Rosenbaum (Items 14 and 43), Abbot Kinney (Item 36), E. F. Hurlbut (Item 45), the Richardson Villa (Items 47 and 48), and Colonel [H. H.] Markham's Ranch (Item 59). Streets depicted include Marengo Avenue, El Molino Avenue, and Orange Grove Avenue, and a few images are of the San Gabriel Mountains as seen from Colorado Avenue and from residences. Along with views of olive and orange groves, many of the images document early Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley viticulture and horticulture, with scenes of vineyards and grapes, including one with an image of a Chinese worker plowing a vineyard; ornamental hedges and cypress trees; yards cultivated with date palms, pine and banana trees, agaves, yucca trees, and pampas grass; homes covered by rose bushes; and streets bordered by pepper trees. A photograph of a date palm includes a caption stating that it was planted during the Mission era (Item 17). Images also show the San Gabriel Mountains, then known as the Sierra Madre Mountains; a man in a horse-drawn buggy en route to Sierra Madre; and people on burros, including a party of approximately 20 identified as visitors from the Raymond Hotel. A few of the photographs show commercial buildings, including the B. D. Wilson School, the First National Bank, and a boarding house. Notably, there is an image of a house with a sign in the foreground for Pasadena architect Charles Ehrenfeld (Item 16). The set also contains two images of Laguna Beach, California (Items 26 and 27); one image of Green Canyon, Arizona, that includes a man sitting on rocks (Item 70); a photograph of a mining site and stamp mill that may be in Arizona or California (Item 38); and two images of redwood trees in Sonoma County, California (Items 32 and 69). There is also one image by C. J. Crandall (1855-1935) of swans on the Campbell-Johnson Ranch (Item 18) with handwritten text on card verso: "Campbell-Johnston Ranche [that is, Ranch]. Taken in 1/250 of a second."
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Bird's eye view of Pasadena, California, looking toward the San Gabriel Mountains and the Raymond Hotel, with orchards and buildings dotting the landscape.
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