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Leonard J. Rose Family Photograph Collection: Finding Aid

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Collection Contents

Volume 1

Box 1

Items 1-41, 43-76

Envelope 1

Article on horses, 1941, by Thornton Chard “California Horses of the Gay 90’s Tracing to Arab and Barb Blood”

Items 1-8

Family portraits

Includes portraits of L.J. Rose, L.J. Rose, Jr., and Guy Rose, and a copy print of a painting by Guy Rose.

Items 9-14

Sunny Slope Ranch, various views

Includes stereographs by W. M. Godfrey, No. 41 of Grape Gathering at Sunny Slope (Items 14 and 14a), approximately 1870, and a variant of No. 40 of L.J. Rose's Residence (Item 13a).

Items 15-30

Sunny Slope Ranch, various views (includes photographs by C. E. Watkins)

All photographs by Watkins date to 1877 or 1880. Includes a cabinet card photograph of the Sunny Slope Ranch winery and vineyard by photographer E.C. Bichowsky (item 15); two Carleton Watkins stereographs (items 19a and 24a); and unmounted 9.5 x 15.5 cm prints by Watkins corresponding to published Watkins' New Series stereographs:

Watkins' New Series #4419 View from Lake Vineyard, B.D. Wilson's, San Gabriel (left side) and #4420 (right side) (Item 17)
Watkins' New Series #4432 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 18)
Stereograph number unidentified [view of Sunny Slope vineyard] (Item 23)
Watkins' New Series #4458 Palm Trees, San Gabriel (Item 20)
Watkins' New Series #4433 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 21)
Watkins' New Series #4435 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 22)
Stereograph number unidentified [View of road leading to Rose residence] (Item 23)
Watkins' New Series #4431 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 24)
Watkins' New Series #4439 A Bee Ranch, San Gabriel, Cal. (Item 25)
Watkins' New Series #4448 Old Adobe, Mission San Gabriel, Cal. (Item 26)
Watkins' New Series #4449 [Adobe building] (Item 27)
Watkins' New Series #4630 Mission San Gabriel, Estab. Sept. 8th, 1771, Cal. (Item 28)
Watkins' New Series #4631 Mission San Gabriel, Estab. Sept. 8th. 1771, Cal. (Item 29)

Item 31

House on Rosemead Ranch [photograph by F.G. Schumacher]

Item 32

“Stamboul” horse and trainer [photograph by F.G. Schumacher]

Items 33-41

Horses

Items 43-44

“Rosebud,” home of L. J. Rose, Jr., and log schoolhouse.

Items 45-51

Residence at 4th, Grand Ave., Los Angeles.

Chiefly card photographs by Putnam, 1893, and copy prints.

Items 52-67

Miscellaneous

Chiefly miscellaneous copy prints as well as a card photograph of the Rose Hotel in Ventura by Brewster (Item 55) and a street view of the Rose Building in downtown Los Angeles, at 367 1/2 North Main Street (Item 54).

Items 68-74

Scenes from the Trek to California [copy prints]

Item 75

C. E. Watkins' New Series #4427 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq. Sunny Slope, San Gab'l.

Item 76

C. E. Watkins' New Series stereograph #4434 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq. Sunny Slope, Sa Gab'l.

Folder 1, Item 42

Panorama of the Rosemead Ranch barns.

Physical Description: 15 x 35 cm

Volume 2

Box 2

Photograph album (Items 1-35)

Physical Description: volume 29 x 24 cm

Photograph album containing 35 Rose Family studio portraits including L. J. Rose and his wife, Amanda Rose, and family members, including their children, chiefly at young ages, and members of the Sanderson family.

Box 3

Loose photographs (Items 36-70)

Item 36-45

Portraits of Rose family members (includes two color photographs, 1979)

Item 46-54

Portraits of Rose family members and horse

Includes tintype of a horse with an African American trainer (Item 53); a carte-de-visite by Penelon & Addis (Item 46); a view of Sunny Slope house of Wachtels by A.E. Nichols & Co. (Item 49); a view of Maude and Daisy Rose in their bedroom in the Grand Avenue House by Howland and Chadwick (Item 50).

Item 55-59

Miscellaneous historic copy prints

Item 60

[Card photograph with four portraits of Ruth Montgomery, toddler]

Item 61-67

Portraits of Rose family members

Item 68-70

Rose, Guy: 2 clippings and a booklet from the Kanst Art Gallery

Item 71

Photograph of Mrs. Wachtel

Item 72

Photograph of Mrs. Amanda Rose

Item 73

Photograph of L. J. Rose

Collection Contents

Volume 1

Volume 2