Name/Title
"No. 163. An Apiary on the Foothills of San Gabriel"Entry/Object ID
2010.438.1.10Description
"No. 163. An Apiary on the Foothills of San Gabriel," originally photographed by Alexander C. Varela, Los Angeles, ca. 1878 and republished by Isaiah W. Taber, San Francisco, ca. early 1880s. The view shows at least three rows of stacked boxes in which honeybees were kept for the production of honey. At the left is a white two-story structure, probably the house of the apiarist. The land on which the apiary was kept is mowed and there is one lone tree in the background, behind which are the San Gabriel Mountains. Varela moved to San Jose and worked as a photographer there in 1880, but evidently sold his negatives to Taber before returning to Washington, D. C., where he worked in the federal government system. With slight mount curvature, some soiling and edge rubbing, the overall condition is good.Lexicon
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Stereoscopic Photographs
