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Title
Sierra Madre Villa, San Gabriel
Creator
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Long, two-story hotel building with a wraparound porch and landscaped grounds of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in San Gabriel (now Sierra Madre, California), with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background and citrus trees in the foreground. Several people sit out on the lawn and on porch.
Title transcribed from photo-mount. Date devised by cataloger based on photographer history; Watkins made two trips to Southern California, in 1877 and 1880. Printed on photo-mount to left of title, "B. 4,823," and under title, "Watkins' New Boudoir Series Yo Semite and Pacific Coast, 427 Montgomery Street, San Francisco." Corresponds to Watkins New Stereo Series #4823.
Type
Image
Extent
1 photograph : print ; mount 14 x 22 cm (cabinet format)
Identifier
photPF
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/13641
Subject
Hotels--California--Sierra Madre
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Cabinet photographs. (aat)
Place
Sierra Madre (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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