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Photographs of the San Gabriel Valley and Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink
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Consists of 12 photographs including one postcard, snapshots, and albumen prints. photPF 2490 is a postcard of the San Gabriel Mission. photPF 2491 depicts a group of unidentified men moving a large palm tree. photPF 2492-2493 are albumen prints of orange groves in Pasadena. photPF 2949.1-2494.8 consists of nine snapshots of Ernestine Schumann Heink with friends at a garden party and stwo snapshots of a pseudo-birthday cake.
photPF 2490-2494
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Views of Southern California including the San Gabriel Mountains and San Diego County
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5 snapshots taken by Mary Augusta Nailen in 1925 of the Pacific Electric Railroad at Mount Lowe and Echo Mountain and the chapel at Switzer's Falls in the San Gabriel Mountains, and 4 photographic postcards depicting various tourist sites in the San Gabriel Mountains, Pasadena, and San Diego County, California. Includes one photographic postcard depicting East Green Street, Pasadena, looking East from Los Robles, 1930 (photPF 20066); one photograph of an automobile stage on road to Mount Wilson (photPF 20067); two photographic postcards by Frashers Foto, Pomona of the Old Spanish Light House, Point Loma, Calif., ca. 1931 (photPF 20068-20069); and one photographic postcard shows the highway in Encinitas, California, ca. 1929 (photPF 20070).
photPF 20061-20070
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Photos of San Gabriel Valley and the California citrus industry
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Consists of nine photographs. photPF 980 is of San Gabriel's Church of Our Savior, which was the first Protestant church in the San Gabriel Valley. photPF 982 features Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Caucasian fruit workers standing around open crates of fruit (with one labeled "The Duffy Co") inside an exchange building. photPF 983 is a view of track laying for the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railway in the Arroyo Seco. photPF 984-988 are various scenes of the California citrus industry, primarily focusing on orange groves and workers. Subjects and locations include the Whittier Citrus Association, Riverside's first Washington naval tree, irrigation canals in orange groves, and the Redlands. photPF 989 is a postcard of a display at an early citrus fair in San Bernardino County featuring a small point sitting on the front of a miniature train decorated with lemons and oranges.
photPF 970-989
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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 Pasadena, California and environs related to the Heslop Family
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6 card photographs related to the Heslop Family of Pasadena, California, including an exterior view of the Heslop Building, built in 1904, with awnings labeled "Lamanda Store" and "J.M. Brown" in the Lamanda Park neighborhood of Pasadena and a stamp on verso for "W.H. Kindig, Photographer, Wilson Peak Park, Pasadena, California" (photPF 21175); the front exterior and garden, with palm trees and cacti, of the Heslop residence on East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena (photPF 21176); a street view of an unidentified Pasadena residence, with a stamp for "J.C. Carr, Photographer, Pasadena, Cal." (photPF 21177); the chariot races at the Tournament of Roses (photPF 21178); and two views of Pismo Beach (El Pizmo) and the surrounding countryside signed by photographer McCurry (photPF 21179-21180).
photPF 21175-21180
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Miscellaneous photographs of California and other places
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Consists of six items including photographs, cyanotypes, one postcard, and one packet of 12 small prints. photPF 740 is a photograph of the El Molino Viejo; photPF 741 is a photograph of Lake Memphremagog, Vermont; photPF 742 is a postcard of the birthplace of Nathan Hale; photPF 747 is a packet containing 12 small views of the damage caused by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake; photPF 748-749 are two still-life cyanotypes taken at the laboratory of asphalt paving plant at Carpenteria, depicting a skull with a hat (labeled "the prof") and a pair of old miner shoes.
photPF 740-749