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Views of the Pío Pico adobe and ranch

Description: Three card photographs depict the El Ranchito adobe and ranch property of Pío Pico in Whittier, California, with two showing the exteriors of adobe ranch buildings with Hispanic men, women, and children standing in front, and one depicting the exterior of the two-story adobe house with Pío Pico standing on a balcony with Pasadena naturalist Jeanne Carr. The photographs are by Pasadena photographers Jarvis (photPF 590) and E.A. Bonine (photPF 591-592).
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1885-approximately 1890
Call number: photPF 590-592
Provenance: Acquired from Carter, 1937.
Dimensions: mounts 13 x 21 cm (cabinet format)

Ranchito, home of Pio Pico, view of ranch buildings

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View of ranch buildings of Pio Pico on his El Ranchito property in Whittier, California, including equipment, tools, fencing, a birdhouse/aviary, and an open yard in the foreground. Three women and two men stand in front of one of the buildings with a trellis overhang.

photPF 590

Don Pio Pico & Mrs. J. C. Carr on balcony at Ranchito, Pio's home near El Monte

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Pio Pico and Jeanne Carr stand facing each other on a balcony on the upper level of Pio's adobe home on his El Ranchito property in Whittier, California.

photPF 592

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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

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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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Interior and exterior view of the Compton Grain and Milling Company

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View of the exterior of the wooden Compton Grain and Milling Company building in Compton, California, with men standing at front with a team of horses (photPF 24895) and a view of the interior of the building with two men standing amid wooden beams, grain sacks, and machinery (photPF 24896).

photPF 24895-24896

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Views of Pasadena, California, and vicinity

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Chiefly card photographs of views, buildings, and sights in the Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley region of Southern California in the late 19th century. Consists of images of various Pasadena area landscapes, buildings including commercial storefronts, churches, and residences. Among the buildings depicted are the Central School House (photPF 527), the Grand Pasadena Opera House (photPF 530), the Congregational Church (photPF 519), the first Methodist Church building (photPF 505), the first Presbyterian Church, the storefront of the Jarvis's photography gallery (photPF 540) in Pasadena, and the buildings of the Sierra Madre Vintage Co. winery in Lamanda Park, including one showing a locomotive and passenger cars of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad (photPF 539 and 549); residences include those of William J. Barkus (photPF 510), Albert Brigden (photPF 537) and Moritz Rosenbaum (photPF 514) in Pasadena, J.R. Dobbins in San Gabriel (photPF 509), and General George Stoneman on his Los Robles estate (photPF 504) and B.D. Wilson on his Lake Vineyard Estate (photPF 507-508), both in what is now San Marino. Individuals include George W. Peck (photPF 529) General George Stoneman (photPF 504), B.D. Wilson and James De Barth Shorb (photPF 507), all with their families. Additionally, there are photographs of a welcome arch in honor of the visit of United States President Benjamin Harrison in 1891 (photPF 544), two flower displays from the first flower show in the Wooster Block (photPF 523 and 542), fruit drying (photPF 524), a Pasadena Ostrich Farm (photPF 528), a tennis match (photPF 555), and a photograph of the Hotel Redondo, railroad train, and beach in Redondo Beach, California (photPF 502). There are also two photographs of architectural drawings of a planned YMCA building (photPF 521) and the Pasadena Presbyterian Church (photPF 533). Identified photographers include Elias A. Bonine (photPF 522), E.S. Frost & Son (photPF 539, 547, 551-552), William Henry Hill (photPF 502), Jarvis' Gallery (photPF 512ac-c-514, 519-521, 523-531, 533, 538, 550), C. McMurtrey (photPF 555), T.G. Norton (photPF 555), J.T. Tuttle (photPF 549), and Carleton E. Watkins (photPF 501, 503-509). Primarily cabinet cards with a few stereographs.

photPF 500-555

Views of the Pío Pico adobe and ranch

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