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Photographs of Lake Vineyard, Shorb and Wilson families, adobe of Santa Clara County, California, and others
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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
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Wilson's Peak, Mount Lowe, and other California photographs
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A group of miscellaneous photographs including views of the Mount Lowe railway, cabins, and a cabin and donkey at Wilson's Peak in the San Gabriel Mountains. Also: Ladies concert band in Crescent City (1910); Hotel Palomares, Pomona (1890s); First Methodist Church, Pomona (1888?); and a copy photograph of a prospecting party with miner's tools in an unidentified town.
photPF 2700-2709
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Ortiz adobe near Elizabeth Lake, Los Angeles County, and other photographs
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Snapshot photograph of the Miguel Ortiz adobe on Burns Ranch, one mile east of Elizabeth Lake, and two snapshots of the road crossings near Andrade adobe, Los Angeles County (1920s). Other photographs in this folder: five photographs of W. M. Bristol's lodge in Wrightwood (1930s); historical building and bandstand, Ontario, California; and image of Hindu workers picking oranges, Upland Citrus Association (1900s).
photPF 2160-2169
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Vineyard and lake at B.D. Wilson's Lake Vineyard, San Gabriel
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This collection contains 430 albumen photographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California in the 1870s and 1880s, as well as 223 card photographs by photographer Alfred A. Hart documenting the construction of the western half of the transcontinental railroad by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in the 1860s, which were later published by Watkins under his own imprint. Images by Watkins depict locations in Arizona and California including: Lake Tahoe, Los Angeles, the Mammoth Tree Grove, Paso Robles, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Gabriel, San Luis Obispo, San Pedro, Santa Monica, Soda Springs, Wilmington, and Yosemite, as well as views related to the Southern Pacific Railroad and of the Colorado River. There are a few images of Native Americans in Arizona and California, and several images related to trains and railroads. The photographs have been removed from the original album, which is a large leather album with brass bindings (Box 10). There are some handwritten identifications in the album pages, most likely written after if was received by the Library.
photCL 74
Vineyard and lake at B.D. Wilson's Lake Vineyard, San Gabriel
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View from a hill with large shade tree on the right on the Lake Vineyard estate owned by Benjamin Davis Wilson in San Gabriel (now mainly part of San Marino, California). Below are rows of planted grape vines, and behind that, the surface of a small lake is visible.
photCL 74 (597)
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Panoramic photograph of Redlands, California and other photographs
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Five cabinet cards forming one panoramic view of Redlands, showing houses, mountains, and agriculture, approximately 1880s. Other photographs in this folder: a group of tennis players posed on a grass court in Piedmont, California (1890?); a masted ship at Coronado (1893); photograph of an engraving of the Baldwin Hotel, San Francisco; ruins of an Arizona mission (1895).
photPF 2140-2149