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Photographs of Pasadena, California

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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1880s-1943.
Call number: photPF 380-389
Provenance: Acquired from various sources, 1936-1943.
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Views of Carmelita, Pasadena, California, and vicinity

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Nine card photographs of views around Pasadena, California, circa 1880s, chiefly depicting the Carmelita estate of Dr. Ezra S. Carr and his wife, Jeanne C. Smith Carr. Includes images of the tree-lined dirt roads around Carmelita and the exterior of the Carrs' house; the planting of a palm tree; a woman with a horse; an orchard, as well as a view of the Sierra Madre Villa Hotel in San Gabriel (now Sierra Madre) and a fountain on the hotel's property; the driveway to the Glen Rosa estate of Thomas Nelmes. Photographers are unidentified on most of the images, though there are imprints for Carleton E. Watkins (photPF 440), Elias A. Bonine (photPF 448), and E.S. Frost & Son (photPF 449), and T.G. Norton & Co (photPF 447).

photPF 440-449

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Photographs of San Bernardino County and Santa Barbara County

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Consists of 13 photographs and snapshots, almost all with their own handwritten or typescript note. photPF 2130 includes a newspaper clipping on the verso. Subjects include portions of the former "The Marquette" hotel near Shady Grove Dairy in Ontario, the John Rains house on Vineyard Avenue in Rancho Cucamonga, the Old Cucamonga Winery, Taipa Adobe oak tree and cacti, an old grapevine in Carpenteria, the "Mormon Trail" monument in Cajon Pass, Lone Hill, and the site of the former Park Hotel.

photPF 2130-2139

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Oakmont Brand

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Image of a large oak tree with an orange grove and mountains in background.

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Grove of trees

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A grove of what appears to be oak trees. The tree at center has notches carved into the trunk.

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Pasadena from Carrs 1885

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Landscape view of Pasadena, California, as seen from Carmelita, the estate of Dr. Ezra Carr and his wife, Jeanne C. Carr, with orchards and vineyards planted in rows and a dirt path running through the center. In the distance are several houses and buildings.

photPF 448

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Huntington Hotel photograph

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Oversized framed photograph from approximately 1915 depicting the Huntington Hotel (now the Langham Huntington Hotel) at 1401 South Oak Knoll Ave in Pasadena, California. The Hotel was built between 1907 and 1914.

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Photographs of Pasadena, California

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