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Title: Orchard on Sphinx Ranch
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1911
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 a dirt road leading to an orchard on the Allen Family property, Sphinx Ranch 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: 00069038
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Altadena-Ranches-Sphinx Ranch.; A-010-224 4x5
CARL0000072993
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/107573
Subject: Allen, William--Homes and haunts
Ranches--California--Altadena
Orchards--California--Altadena
Dirt roads--California--Altadena
Sphinx Ranch (Altadena, Calif.)
Altadena (Calif.)

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