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[Residence of Col. Edward J. C. Kewen, San Gabriel, Los Angeles County]

Description: [Watkins number unknown.] This property later known as El Molino Viejo (The Old Mill), in what is now San Marino. Forms panorama with photCL Watkins 40. Written in pencil at bottom of mount: "The San Gabriel Valley."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1877
Call number: (photCL Watkins 41)
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E (1829-1916)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1968.; Purchased from Grahame Hardy, 1964.; Purchased from David Magee, 1958.; Gift of Arthur N. Carter, 1936; 1938.; Purchased from Warren Howell, 1966.; Transferred from John Haskell Kemble collection, 1997.; Purchased by the Library Collectors' Council from Michael Dawson, 2012.

[Residence of Col. Edward J. C. Kewen, San Gabriel, Los Angeles County]

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[Watkins number unknown.] This property later known as El Molino Viejo (The Old Mill), in what is now San Marino. Forms panorama with photCL Watkins 40. Written in pencil at bottom of mount: "The San Gabriel Valley."

photCL Watkins 41

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[View in San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County]

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[Watkins no. 1161] View taken from the residence of Nathaniel C. Carter (1840-1904). Forms panorama with photCL Watkins 41. Written in pencil at bottom of mount: "The San Gabriel Valley."

(photCL Watkins 40)

[View in San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County]

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[Watkins no. 1161] View taken from the residence of Nathaniel C. Carter (1840-1904). Forms panorama with photCL Watkins 41. Written in pencil at bottom of mount: "The San Gabriel Valley."

photCL Watkins 40

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Residence of Col. Kewen, San Gabriel

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Watkins New Series #4409

photCL 74

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Residence of Col. Kewen, San Gabriel, Cal

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This collection contains 430 albumen photographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California in the 1870s and 1880s, as well as 223 card photographs by photographer Alfred A. Hart documenting the construction of the western half of the transcontinental railroad by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in the 1860s, which were later published by Watkins under his own imprint. Images by Watkins depict locations in Arizona and California including: Lake Tahoe, Los Angeles, the Mammoth Tree Grove, Paso Robles, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Gabriel, San Luis Obispo, San Pedro, Santa Monica, Soda Springs, Wilmington, and Yosemite, as well as views related to the Southern Pacific Railroad and of the Colorado River. There are a few images of Native Americans in Arizona and California, and several images related to trains and railroads. The photographs have been removed from the original album, which is a large leather album with brass bindings (Box 10). There are some handwritten identifications in the album pages, most likely written after if was received by the Library.

photCL 74

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[Twin Palms, San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County]

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[Watkins no. 1168] Twin palm trees and water flowing in an irrigation ditch on Mission San Gabriel property.

(photCL Watkins 93)

[Residence of Col. Edward J. C. Kewen, San Gabriel, Los Angeles County]

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