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Lacy Park, San Marino, California and other miscellaneous photographs

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Description: A folder of miscellaneous photographs: Aerial view of Lacy Park, San Marino, after it was drained and laid out (1937); Mayberry residence, San Marino (approximately 1920); three cabinet card portraits of unidentified people by photographer I. W. Taber (1870s-1880s); scenic view of Redwood Park and Eel River, Humboldt County; scenic view of Ilfracombe, England; exterior of Chesterfield House, England.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1870-1937.
Call number: photPF 2387-2395
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of 1992 and 1994.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

View of the Japanese Garden at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California

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Black-and-white view of the Japanese Garden and bridge, looking east towards the rose garden, at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

photPF 20177

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Three 19th-century maps of San Marino, California, showing local water routes, especially El Molino (now Kewen) Canyon

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Three hand-drawn survey maps representing a San Marino, California property as purchased and developed by Edward L. Mayberry (1834-1902) between 1880 and 1900. Two of the maps (dated 1887 and 1894) were used as evidence in an 1895 lawsuit over water rights between Mayberry and the Alhambra Addition Water Company. The three maps document the remnants of the Molino Canyon mission water system, agricultural activity in San Marino before 20th-century residential subdividing, and evidence of the area before Henry Huntington purchased a large portion of it.

mssHM 83404a-c

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San Marino reservoir near the Old Mill

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The 2.5"x 2.5" black-and-white photograph is a view of the San Marino reservoir near El Molino Viejo facing the San Gabriel Mountains.

photPF 3321

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Photographs of San Marino, California construction and early Los Angeles buildings

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Snapshot photographs of workers installing a storm drain and other construction on Old Mill Road, San Marino (approximately 1928). Also three copy prints of Main Street, Los Angeles, and a half stereograph of Fort Street Methodist Episcopal Church, central Los Angeles (1880s?).

photPF 2330-2339

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Photographs of San Marino and Pasadena

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The collection contains 13 photographs of San Marino and Pasadena, chiefly landscape views of San Marino, one taken by R.V.B. and the rest by an unidentified photographer. The photographs are mounted on nine individual pages, some containing one image and some containing two images. One photograph, credited to R. V. B., depicts Eaton Canyon and is captioned "On the Brim" - Eatons [sic] Canyon (item 1, page 1). Seven photographs depict trees, a canyon pathway, and Canyon Drive in San Marino, and three photographs depict El Molino Viejo (also known as The Old Mill); captions include "The Monarch. A Canyon Pathway" (items 2 and 3, page 2), "A Canyon Pathway" and "Four Oaks" (items 4 and 5, page 3), "'Neath the Oakes" and "A Shady Spot" (items 6 and 7, page 4), "Under a Live Oak - San Marino" (item 9, Page 6), and "Canyon Drive - San Marino" (item 10, page 7). One photograph shows an exterior view of the Polytechnic Elementary School in Pasadena, originally designed in 1909 by architects Myron Hunt (1868-1952) and Elmer Grey (1871-1962) and founded by Hunt's wife, Virginia Pease Hunt, who served as first principal (from 1907-1915); the caption for this image is "Neath Oak and Ivy," referring to the ivy-covered tree in the foreground (item 8, page 5).

photCL 348

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Photographs of Lake Elsinore and other California locations

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Four cabinet card photographs of Lake Elsinore: "Chaney's first house in Warm Spring Valley"; a small town on the lake (1884); "first house at Elsinore" with a well; scenic view of lake. Another card photograph in this folder: First Baptist Church of San Francisco by I. W. Taber. See also a daguerreotype of this image: photDAG 61. Other photographs are the following: images of drawings of San Bernardino in the 1850s; a photographic postcard of Point Hueneme Lighthouse (1943); copy photograph of Los Angeles Plaza and surrounding buildings by Francis Parker (approximately 1871-1875).

photPF 1530-1539

Lacy Park, San Marino, California and other miscellaneous photographs

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