Photos of San Gabriel Valley and the California citrus industry | Collections | The Huntington

Photos of San Gabriel Valley and the California citrus industry | Collections | The Huntington

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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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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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Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad photographs
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Fourteen cabinet card photographs depicting the construction and opening of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad (L.A. & S.G.V.R.R.) in the Los Angeles and Pasadena, California, area in 1885. The images document workers laying the track, railroad bridges (including the wooden trestle bridge across the Arroyo Seco river bed, the exterior and interior of passenger cars, and the Downey Avenue station in Los Angeles, as well as two images related to the opening celebrations of the railroad on September 16, 1885 in Pasadena (photPF 557 and 567). Depicted among the images is the first Pasadena Public Library (photPF 566). Photographs include photographer imprints for E.S. Frost & Son (photPF 556-558, 560-565, 568-569), and J.T. Tuttle & Co. (photPF 559).
photPF 556-569
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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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[Unidentified view in Pasadena or the San Gabriel Valley]
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View shows the intersection of two dirt roads in front of several small houses and citrus groves or orchards, either in Pasadena or the San Gabriel Valley, California. A few wagons are stopped on the road.
photPF 20118
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Photographs related to Sunkist Growers, Inc. and citrus packing operations in Southern California
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Images depict citrus packing houses and their operations in Southern California including College Heights Orange and Lemon Association, Claremont; El Camino Citrus Association, Claremont; Claremont Ice and Pre-Cooling Plant; Indian Hill Citrus Association, North Pomona; Pomona Fruit Growers Exchange; West Ontario Citrus Association; Walnut Fruit Growers Association. Views of the packing house exteriors as well as employees at work sorting and packing fruit. Crate labels visible in the photographs include the following brands: Athlete, Campus, Hawk, Hercules, King, Parrot, Stork, and Volunteer. Included are one image of Sunkist representatives on a trip in Europe, and a portrait of P. J. Dreher, father of cooperative citrus marketing. In addition, there are two pictures of railroad refrigeration cars. Identified photographers include Black'd Photo Service, Boye Portrait, Cooper's Foto Shop of Claremont, California, and Frasher's of Pomona, Cal. There is also one picture of the Sunkist representatives in a tour car on a visit to Europe in the 1920s (photPF 25047).
photPF 25020-25047