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Lot 273
Sale 926 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Aug 20, 2021
10:00AM ET
Online / Cincinnati
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$200 -
400
Price Realized
$156
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Lot Description
[CALIFORNIA]. A group of 20 photographs and ephemera related to Pasadena, Mt. Lowe, and Echo Mountain, including the railway images, comprising:
(1)-Mt. Lowe Railway, Calif. Fan, approx. 6.5 in. diam., wood handle. “Greatest Scenery in the World. DO NOT MISS IT.”
World Famous Mount Lowe California. Chicago: C.T. & Co., n.d. (ca 1910-1920). Obl. 8 x 10 in., printed wraps with gilt, 24pp., one page of text, the rest photos of the scenery around Mt. Lowe, including the observatory.
Photograph, 5 x 8 in., Titled in negative: “392 Castle Canyon below Maple Springs, Mount Lowe Railway. F.H. Maude Photo.”
Photo of people on “Echo” – the incline on Mt. Lowe. 4.75 x 7 in. Some paper adhered to verso from being affixed in an album at some point.
8 x 10 in. photo of the Pacific Electric Railway on Echo Mountain. Matted with acrylic sheet. On verso “Top of the Great Mt. Lowe Incline.”
8 x 10 in. photo of the entire Mt. Lowe incline. Matted.
(2)-Two 8 x 10 in. photos. One of a “horseshoe bend” on the Mt. Lowe Railway, the other of the front porch of Ye Alpine Hotel.
(3)-Photo of Sierra Madre Mountains (From Pasadena, Cal.) 5.75 x 8 in.
Large format albumen identified on verso as “First L.A. Ry. Co. plant.” 6 x 8.5 in. on larger mount. Matted.
(other)-7.75 x 9.75in. later print of Dana Point, Blue Lantern service station and “Fountain Lunch .”
8 X 10 in. Mount Lowe Railway pulling out of the station
Rose, Richard W. Oscar G. Mayer Memorial Observatory Dome, Palomar Mountain, California. 4.5 x 6.5 in, color.
8 x 10 in. image with ostrich hitched to cart. Captioned: “Prize winners. Cawston ostrich farm. South Pasadena, Calif.”
Pasadena Playhouse News, Aug. 1 to 12, 1933. 4to, printed wraps, 14 pages.
Around Pasadena, 1994 Calendar. 100-year anniversary of Vroman’s Bookstore. Many 19th century photos of Pasadena.
Photo, 2.75 x 7.25 in., identified on verso as “Marengo Ave., Pasadena. Looking north.”
Image captioned: “Tournament of Roses, the Pickwick Club, Pasadena, 1900.” Approx. 6 x 8 in.
8 x 10 in. image, Pacific Electric Railway car coming around a bend. Matted, with acrylic sheet.
5 x 8 in. image of the front of Ye Alpine Hotel. Matted with acrylic sheet.