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Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad photographs
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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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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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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).
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Photographs of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley
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Consists of ten photographs, including mounted photographs, copy prints, and postcards. Locations and subjects include Pasadena Avenue between avenues 40 and 41, the Arroyo Seco, a California Western Railroad caboose, groups traveling with mules and burros in the San Gabriel Mountains, an aerial view of Pasadena, the Huntington Hotel, and the Colorado Street Bridge.
photPF 2470-2479
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Photographs of Los Angeles, Mojave mining, and Santa Catalina Island
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Consists of twelve photographs and postcards. photPF 350-353 depict the aftermath of the 1912 fire in Ocean Park, California. photPF 354 shows a couple in a vacation tent on a hill above Hotel Metropole in Avalon on Santa Catalina Island. photPF 355-356 shows mine buildings of the Mojave mining district in Kern County. And photPF 357-359 depicts areas of early downtown Los Angeles, including a view of the city from Brooklyn Heights by Francis Parker, Iglesia Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, also known as La Placita Church or the Church of our Lady of Los Angeles on Olvera Street, and a view of Bunker Hill from 3rd and Hill Streets.
photPF 350-359