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Photographs of the San Gabriel Valley and Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink

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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1890s-1930s.
Call number: photPF 2490-2494
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

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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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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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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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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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

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Views of Sunny Slope Ranch and other ranches in the San Gabriel Valley, California

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Six boudoir and cabinet card-sized photographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins depicting the vineyard, winery and distillery buildings of the Sunny Slope Ranch of L.J. Rose in San Gabriel, California; also including a view of the house of Colonel E.J.C. Kewen on his El Molino estate in what is now San Marino, California (known later as the "Old Mill"; photPF 497); a view of Native American women and children sitting in front of two thatched-roof dwellings (photPF 499). There is also one landscape view of citrus groves and houses in Pasadena, California, by T. G. Norton (photPF 495), as well as one modern copy print of Rose's Sunny Slope house by Watkins (photPF 498).

photPF 490-499

Photographs of the San Gabriel Valley and Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink

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