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Cabinet card photographs of San Gabriel Valley, California and Catalina Island tourist party

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Description: Contents: Winery buildings of Sierra Madre Vintage Company; Old Mill cistern; Lamanda Park station of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; men on horses at sugar beet ranch (exact location not identified); banana tree and date palm; burros at hitching post in San Gabriel Mountains(?); men, women and children on horses, posed for a group photograph at Avalon, Catalina Island, in front of Hotel Metropole, with Grand View Hotel in background.
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Production date: approximately 1870s-1890s.
Call number: photPF 1048-1062
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.
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Photographs of Santa Catalina Island

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Consists of ten photographs, nine of which are cabinet cards and one of which is a print. Photographs are primarily set in Avalon and feature the Hotel Metropole, the growth of the city, Avalon Bay, local wildlife, and the steamer ship Hermosa.

photPF 940-949

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Photographs of the San Gabriel Valley and Mountains

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Consists of 30 photographs, including copy prints, postcards, and snapshots. photPF 2480 is a postcard of the Pasadena Playhouse in the 1940s with a playbill advertising "The Magic Rowan." photPF 2481 is a photograph of a newspaper advertisement for the 1890 Tournament of Roses. photPF 2482 is of Dr. Francis F. Rowland's prize winning coach for the 1890 Tournament of Roses. photPF 2483 is accompanied with handwritten correspondence providing context for the snapshot of a 2nd place winning float for the 1908 Tournament of Roses. photPF 2484 is a postcard with a view of South Pasadena from Monterey Hills with the Raymond Hotel in the distance. photPF 2485 is a postcard of South Pasadena's Cawston Ostrich Farm. photPF 2486 consists of eight photographs of unidentified individuals taken in the San Gabriel Mountains at Orchard camp in August 1913. photPF 2487 consists of three snapshots with an accompanying newspaper clipping of the famous wisteria vine at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Fennel at 201 West Carter Avenue, Sierra Madre in 1913. photPF 2488 consists of 12 snapshots of an unidentified group camping and hiking between 1914 and 1919 in the various locations in the San Gabriel Mountains, including the Arroyo Secco, Mount Wilson Pine Flat Cabins, Mount Lowe, Barley Flats, Bear Canyon, and Eaton Canyon. photPF 2489 is a snapshot of an unoccupied coach parked at Lamanda Park in Pasadena.

photPF 2480-2489

Avalon Bay, Catalina Island, California

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Elevated view of the city of Avalon on Santa Catalina, Island, California, showing a steamer ship in Avalon Bay with the Hotel Metropole visible near the dock at center and the Peter Gano House (later known as Holly Hill House), in the foreground at right. There are boats tied up in the bay, the Sugarloaf Rock, and shops and tent cabins along the beach with houses in the distance.

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Photographs of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley

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Consists of ten photographs, including mounted photographs, copy prints, and postcards. Locations and subjects include Pasadena Avenue between avenues 40 and 41, the Arroyo Seco, a California Western Railroad caboose, groups traveling with mules and burros in the San Gabriel Mountains, an aerial view of Pasadena, the Huntington Hotel, and the Colorado Street Bridge.

photPF 2470-2479

Winery, Sierra Madre Vintage Co

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Group of low, wood buildings and a water tank at the Sierra Madre Vintage Company winery in Lamanda Park (now part of Pasadena, California), with the San Gabriel Mountains and the Sierra Madre Villa Hotel faintly visible at center right in the background. A locomotive engine and passenger train are sitting on the track between buildings. A young boy and a woman sit astride horses in the foreground. Men, woman, and horse-drawn carriages are gathered among the buildings.

photPF 549

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Photographs of Los Angeles, Mojave mining, and Santa Catalina Island

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Consists of twelve photographs and postcards. photPF 350-353 depict the aftermath of the 1912 fire in Ocean Park, California. photPF 354 shows a couple in a vacation tent on a hill above Hotel Metropole in Avalon on Santa Catalina Island. photPF 355-356 shows mine buildings of the Mojave mining district in Kern County. And photPF 357-359 depicts areas of early downtown Los Angeles, including a view of the city from Brooklyn Heights by Francis Parker, Iglesia Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, also known as La Placita Church or the Church of our Lady of Los Angeles on Olvera Street, and a view of Bunker Hill from 3rd and Hill Streets.

photPF 350-359

Cabinet card photographs of San Gabriel Valley, California and Catalina Island tourist party

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