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Views of Los Angeles and vicinity

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Description: This is a group of stereographs by unnamed or unidentified photographers. Includes views of: corner of Fort & 2nd Streets, Los Angeles, ca. 1880s [no. 1]; West 3rd Street, Los Angeles, ca. 1884-1886 [no. 2]; West Lake Park, Los Angeles [no. 3]; woman standing on steps of a house [no. 4]; Bee ranch, Rustic Canyon [nos. 5, 6]; San Pedro harbor, early 1900s [no. 7]; view of hotel and beach from pier, Redondo Beach, 1891 [no. 8]; Marengo Avenue, Pasadena, ca 1880s [no. 9]; General store, San Gabriel[no. 10]; Santa Anita [Hollister] Ranch and orange groves, Arcadia, 1880s [no. 11]; Santa Anita [Hollister] Ranch building and grounds, Arcadia, 1880s [no. 12]; Carterhia, N.C. Carter's house in Sierra Madre, 1882 [no. 13]; Orange tree, Sierra Madre Villa [no. 14]; Avalon Bay and Sugar Loaf with a steamer coming in, Santa Catalina Island, 1900s [no. 15]; Mission San Luis Rey [no. 16].
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Production date: approximately 1880-approximately 1900.
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Views of Los Angeles and vicinity

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30 stereographic views of Los Angeles, California, and vicinity, with images depicting the Cathedral of Los Angeles [nos. 52, 56] and views of Los Angeles [no. 233, 234, 235]; Santa Monica Bay and coastline [nos. 70, 214, 215, 219, 221, 222]; San Gabriel Mission and surrounding landscape [no. 91, 284, 285]; views of San Gabriel, the San Gabriel Mountains, the San Pascual Canyon and San Pascual Ranch [nos. 110, 117, 119, 131, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 174]; views of Sierra Madre Villa [nos. 207, 208]; and two private residences [nos. 286, 287]. Varela numbers 52, 56, 70, 91, 110, 117, 119, 131, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 174, 207, 208, 214, 215, 219, 221, 222, 233, 234, 235, 284, 285, and two unnumbered images. Some images exist in duplicate.

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Views of Los Angeles and vicinity

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Views of downtown Los Angeles (no. 304), Los Angeles residences and residential areas (nos. 306, 307, 313, 314, 315), Mt. Lowe (nos. 321, 322), San Pedro harbor (no. 330), Avalon and Santa Catalina Island (nos. 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343), San Gabriel Mission (no. 344, 345), hotels in Santa Barbara and Riverside (nos. 352, 359, 360), the Riverside County court house (no. 363), Redlands public library (no. 369), and cacti (no. 366). Reider numbers 304, 306, 307, 313, 314, 315, 321, 322, 330, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 352, 359, 360, 363, 366, 369. Some images exist in duplicate.

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Views of Los Angeles and vicinity

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Images depict an orange grove [no. 1], a waterfall [no. 2], "Huntington Hall School for Young Ladies, Los Angeles, Cal." ([no. 3], 2 copies), "California's Mission Hotel, The Glenwood, Riverside, Cal." [no. 4], "Picking Oranges, A.P. Griffith Ranch, Azusa, Cal." [no. 5].

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Views of Los Angeles and vicinity

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23 stereographic photographs of Los Angeles and Southern California consisting of views of downtown Los Angeles [no. 6] (Broadway and 2nd Street [no. 1, 1a], 1st Street and Broadway [no. 2], Main Street [no. 3], Sonoratown [no. 8]), Los Angeles residences [nos. 4, 5], churches [nos. 7, 11, 12, 13, 20], adobes [nos. 9, 10], Santa Monica beach [no. 14], gardens and fruit groves [nos. 17, 18, 19], the full moon through a telescope [nos. 15, 16], and "Cotton cushion scale" (title on verso) [no. 21].

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Views of Los Angeles and vicinity

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Views of the Plaza from Fort Hill [no. 2]; downtown Los Angeles from Fort Hill [no. 1]; "Hyena House, Calico, Cal."[no. 3]; and Mission Indians at San Gabriel Mission [no. 4].

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This collection contains 269 stereographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins, dating from the 1860s to about the 1880s, that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California. The collection includes 1 stereograph from the Central Pacific Railroad series; 5 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Railroad Series; 110 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Coast series; and 150 stereographs from Watkins' New Series. The Watkins' Pacific Coast Series, created between 1861 and 1874, primarily depict locales in Northern California with many images of buildings in San Francisco, views of Yosemite and Mariposa County, Missions, and some mining operations including photographs of the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company in Nevada County, California. The Watkins' New Series stereographs, created between 1874 and 1890, consist of images of both Southern California and Northern California, in cities including San Francisco, Pasadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre, and San Gabriel. Among the Southern California residences and properties depicted include the Sunny Slope Ranch of L.J. Rose in San Gabriel, Willow Dale owned by N.C. Carter, and Lake Vineyard owned by B.D. Wilson. Some of the stereographs in Watkins' Pacific Coast Series include titles in the margins in Watkins' own hand (see Nos. 1033, 1135, 1146, 1153, and 1721).

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