Name/Title
"No. 203, Sierra Madre Villa, Los Angeles Co., Cal."Entry/Object ID
2010.438.1.14Description
"No. 203. Sierra Madre Villa, Los Angeles Co., Cal.," originally photographed by Alexander C. Varela, Los Angeles, ca. 1878 and republished by Isaiah W. Taber, San Francisco, ca. early 1880s. The view shows an uprooted tree stump in the foreground with some plowed land behind it. Further in the distance are rows of crops and, near the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, the hotel and outbuildings of the Sierra Madre Villa resort. This is now the northeast Pasadena residential subdivision of the same name. 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
Legacy Lexicon
Object Name
Stereoscopic Photographs
