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Title
[Cold Brook Camp Store]
Creator
Jackson, Bradford D
Date Created and/or Issued
between 1907 and 1912]
Publication Information
[Glendora, Cal. : B.D. Jackson
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
2008-2842
PHOTO: LOS ANGELES COUNTY: COLD BROOK CAMP
Postcards created by B.D. Jackson based on family camping trips to Cold Brook Camp.
Shows clearing, large group of men, women and children (many holding firewood), and wooden structure with sign "Cold Brook Camp Store". Tents visible in background.
Cold Brook Camp, located within the Angeles National Forest, very popular with campers. Started out as hunter's camp owned by R.W. Dawson. In 1901, land leased to Doc Beatty who opened hostelry called Squirrel Inn. In 1907, Dawson took over the Inn renaming it Cold Brook Camp. Eventually built hotel, cabins and tents. Was popular in early 1900's and into the 1920's.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print (postcard) ; 3 4/8 x 5 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001392146CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-5486
Language
English
Subject
Private camps--California--San Gabriel Mountains
Stores & shops--California--San Gabriel Mountains
Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Photographs
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photographic postcards
Group portraits
Place
California
San Gabriel Mountains
Los Angeles County (Calif.)
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)

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