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Title
Fair Oaks Ave, looking south. Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
View from above of a business thoroughfare at Fair Oaks Avenue and Colorado Street in Pasadena, California. The right of the road is lined with one and two-story businesses, the left, empty lots. Horse-drawn carriages are scattered over the road. Buildings include signs for a blacksmith, a market, the Pasadena Carriage Works, and dry goods, notions, hats and caps.
Title transcribed from back of photo-mount. Date supplied by cataloger based on approximate date provided for similar image in Ann Scheid, Downtown Pasadena's Early Architecture (2006), page 13. Handwritten along left of photo-mount: "School Yard Colo & Fair Oaks." Written on right hand of stereo: "Aleck Mills Block," with an arrow drawn pointing downward.
Type
image
Extent
1 photograph : print ; mount 10 x 18 cm (stereograph format)
Identifier
photPF
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/13749
Subject
Business districts--California--Pasadena. (aat)
Dirt roads--California--Pasadena
Horse-drawn vehicles--California--Pasadena
Stereographs. (aat)
Place
Pasadena (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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