Photographs of San Marino and Pasadena | Collections | The Huntington

Photographs of San Marino and Pasadena | Collections | The Huntington

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San Marino
Manuscripts
Includes 19 Oak Knoll Estate unit and San Marino tract maps. Has insect damage and is brittle. Transferred from facilities March 2024.
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San Marino
Manuscripts
1 item: booklet, "San Marino - from Ranch to City," San Marino Historical Society, 1977.
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Eaton's Canyon, Pasadena
Visual Materials
View of people sitting on boulders next to a creek among oak trees in Eaton Canyon, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Pasadena, California.
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San Marino Ranch
Visual Materials
A view of a dirt path through the San Marino Ranch, with a horse-drawn carriage in the distance in the center. There is tall grass and widely spaced trees on either side of the road, with one large tree in the center extending over the road.
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San Marino City Club Dinner
Manuscripts
Two copies of the speech that was suppose to be given by Otis Chandler at the San Marino City Club on Tuesday, January 17, 1978. There is a note from Freddie Miller on one of the copies stating that Chandler decided to speak "off the cuff" instead. Other items in this folder include a thank you letter from John M. Podlech, a Pasadena Attorney, which he also sends a three page photocopy of a Reader's Digest article; a letter from Lynn P. Reitnouer, President-Elect of the San Marino City Club, providing information about the event; two letters of correspondence between Jack D. Whitehead of Beatrice Food Co. and Otis Chandler in which Whitehead discusses the speech's message, and Chandler responds with a thank you letter; a newspaper clipping from the San Marino Tribune.
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Photographs of North Pasadena and Sierra Madre area
Visual Materials
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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