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Title: Sphinx Ranch orchard
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1893
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: View of the an orchard on the Allen family property, Sphinx Ranch, located in Altadena. The ranch was owned by William Allen, who had spent 23 years in Egypt thereby coming up with the name "Sphinx." Allen Avenue, named after William Allen, marked the western boundary of his property.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00069041
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Altadena-Ranches-Sphinx Ranch.; A-010-225 4x5
CARL0000072994
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/107574
Subject: Ranches--California--Altadena
Orchards--California--Altadena
Allen, William
Sphinx Ranch (Altadena, Calif.)
Altadena (Calif.)

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