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Photographs of Lake Vineyard, Shorb and Wilson families, adobe of Santa Clara County, California, and others

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Description: Copy photographs: B.D. Wilson and family at Lake Vineyard, San Gabriel Valley; Kinneloa, the Abbott Kinney bee farm in Sierra Madre; Shorb Post Office, San Gabriel. Copies were made from the Arthur E. Ellis Collection (photCL 188). Original photographs in this folder: oldest adobe building in Santa Clara County, California; photographs of the volunteer firemen with hand pump engine, San Francisco; Cliff House at Seal Rock, San Francisco; five images of the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1870s-1907.
Call number: photPF 2798-2819
Provenance: Acquired from Grabhorn, 1945.
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Santa Clara County and San Francisco views

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Contents: San Jose (Santa Clara County) general view; Dr. J. Adams residence (San Jose); Mr. Tompkin residence (San Jose), Georgia Street (Vallejo); Dry Dock and Cantilever Crane, Mare Island Navy Yard (Vallejo); Masonic Temple and Post Street (San Francisco) cabinet card; Presidio Reservation East Cantonment (San Francsico); Parapet, Sutro Heights (San Francisco). Annotations on the photographs note "Hardy 1945." The San Francisco cabinet card of the Masonic Temple has an annotation "Lockley 1945."

photPF 3810-3819

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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)

Photographs of Lake Vineyard, Shorb and Wilson families, adobe of Santa Clara County, California, and others

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