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Photographs of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley
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Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad photographs
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Fourteen cabinet card photographs depicting the construction and opening of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad (L.A. & S.G.V.R.R.) in the Los Angeles and Pasadena, California, area in 1885. The images document workers laying the track, railroad bridges (including the wooden trestle bridge across the Arroyo Seco river bed, the exterior and interior of passenger cars, and the Downey Avenue station in Los Angeles, as well as two images related to the opening celebrations of the railroad on September 16, 1885 in Pasadena (photPF 557 and 567). Depicted among the images is the first Pasadena Public Library (photPF 566). Photographs include photographer imprints for E.S. Frost & Son (photPF 556-558, 560-565, 568-569), and J.T. Tuttle & Co. (photPF 559).
photPF 556-569
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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
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Photographs of Pasadena, California
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Consists of ten photographs, including one cyanotype print. Subjects include views of Carmelita (the residence of Mrs. Carr) including one by C. E. Watkins, the garden at Glen Annie, an oak tree in the center of Orange Grove Ave., an oak tree in the center of Orange Grove and Columbia Avenues, a view of early Marengo Avenue towards the Raymond Hotel, the Allen Tennis Court with Annie Allen, Bell's House, The Arroyo Vista, and La Casa Grande Hotel.
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Views of Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley
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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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Arroyo Seco bridge Los A & San G. Valley Ry
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A wooden trestle bridge and railroad tracks of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad crosses the wide dry river bed of the Arroyo Seco near Pasadena, California. Seen from the side, the tracks run nearly the length of the photograph.
photPF 563
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[Unidentified view in Pasadena or the San Gabriel Valley]
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View shows the intersection of two dirt roads in front of several small houses and citrus groves or orchards, either in Pasadena or the San Gabriel Valley, California. A few wagons are stopped on the road.
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