Bliss Ranch Collection
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Glendale Library, Arts and Culture. Glendale Central Library History Room
2021
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Glendale, California 91205
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Title: Bliss Ranch Collection
Dates: 1894-2004
Collection Number: BRC
Creator/Collector:
Unknown
Extent: 0.75 linear feet, 1 box
Repository:
Glendale Library, Arts and Culture. Glendale Central Library History Room
Glendale, California 91205
Abstract: The collection consists of a small, disassembled album of mounted photographs depicting the Bliss Ranch, owned by brothers
John Dallett Bliss and Robert Parker Bliss from the mid to late 1890s. The ranch was located near the base of the Verdugo
Mountains in Glendale, California, on property once part of the Rancho San Rafael Spanish land grant. In 1900,Leslie C. Brand
purchased the property and shortly thereafter he sold a tract to the Pacific Electric Railway. Bliss Station became the northern
terminus for a line extension running from downtown Los Angeles to the Verdugo Mountains. The property also included the Sepulveda
Adobe, which the railroad turned into the legendary Casa Verdugo restaurant, a popular tourist destination known nation-wide.
Language of Material: English
The collection is open for research use.
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection has not been transferred
to Glendale Central Library. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law beyond that allowed
by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially
exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Bliss Ranch Collection. Glendale Library, Arts and Culture. Glendale Central Library History Room
Purchase, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of a small, disassembled album of mounted photographs depicting the exterior and interior of the ranch
house, barn, livestock, and citrus plantings encompassing the ranch of brothers John Dallett Bliss and Robert Parker Bliss
ca. 1896. A few of the photographs are portraits of horses and dogs, and although people are also included, none are identified.
Also included in the collection are reproductions of the photographs in the form of prints, slides, and negatives. Additional
material consists of photocopied pages from reference sources assembled by Glendale Library staff. Of particular interest
is a photocopied map of the ranch property in 1894 noting ranch boundaries as well as the location of the house, barn, and
the Sepulveda Adobe. The collection also includes a reproduction of a photograph of the house as it appeared while it was
occupied by John McMillan and his family, circa 1905.
Ranches--California--Glendale
Rancho San Rafael
Sepulveda Adobe
Bliss, John Dallett, 1862-1934
Bliss, Robert Parker, 1870-1900
McMillan, John, 1838-1921
Bliss Family
Bliss Ranch
Glendale (Calif.)
Rancho San Rafael (Calif.)
Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Paper Records
Photographic Materials