View of a house identified as the "David W. Alexander home." The location is Los Angeles or vicinity, possibly San Bernardino. Title devised by cataloger; date range approximated by cataloger based on the year that film negatives came into use and the latest known dates indicated for other Hazard images in the Huntington's collection. "David W. Alexander home." - handwritten caption under same photograph in "Hazard-Dyson photograph album" (call no. 094/171), UCLA Special Collections. David W. Alexander was "Phineas Banning's partner in establishing wagon trains" and an influential early settler. He lived for a while in San Bernardino, but also on the Rincon rancho. (Source: "Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913, Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark," The Knickerbocker Press, 1926.)
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