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Don Pio Pico & Mrs. J. C. Carr on balcony at Ranchito, Pio's home near El Monte
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Home of Governor Pio Pico, El Ranchito, Whittier, California
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Image of El Ranchito in Whittier, California, a former adobe residence of Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California. Carved double doors can be seen off of an open patio and a balcony.
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Ranchito, home of Pio Pico, store and adobe buildings
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Men, horses, a woman, and two children stand in the dirt clearing between a cluster of outbuildings on the El Ranchito property of Pio Pico in Whittier, California. A cow and a man holding a child stand on the far right.
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Ranchito, home of Pio Pico, view of ranch buildings
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View of ranch buildings of Pio Pico on his El Ranchito property in Whittier, California, including equipment, tools, fencing, a birdhouse/aviary, and an open yard in the foreground. Three women and two men stand in front of one of the buildings with a trellis overhang.
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Views of the Pío Pico adobe and ranch
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Three card photographs depict the El Ranchito adobe and ranch property of Pío Pico in Whittier, California, with two showing the exteriors of adobe ranch buildings with Hispanic men, women, and children standing in front, and one depicting the exterior of the two-story adobe house with Pío Pico standing on a balcony with Pasadena naturalist Jeanne Carr. The photographs are by Pasadena photographers Jarvis (photPF 590) and E.A. Bonine (photPF 591-592).
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Paso Bartolo Zanjas: Rough Sketch of the Water courses of the Ranchito belonging to Don Pio Pico
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Bordered by Rancho Santa Gertrudes. Detail of upper portion of previous map including Pio Pico homestead. Case No. L.r. 77 stamp dated Jan. 29, 1917. Surveyed by request of Don Pio Pico. Waterways in blue; road from Los Angeles indicated on east (?) side. Zanja in question running to lands of L. Carpenter.
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Centennials Commission van and exhibit (at Los Angeles Coliseum, Sycamore Grove, Pio Pico Adobe, and China Lake)
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The 424 photographs document events and activities of the Southern California Division of the California Centennials Commission that commemorate California's centennial, 1948 to 1950. Included are images of parades, such as the centennials of Beverly Hills and Long Beach; the 1948 Tournament of Roses Parade that included centennial-themed floats; and Gold Rush and pioneer-related parades such as those held in Paso Robles, San Bernardino, Redlands, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Monica. Photographs that document celebrations commemorating historic events and places include the Fort Moore celebration held at the Hollywood Bowl and images of the Portola Trek reenactment. The collection also includes a large number of images of the dedication of the Commission's Historical Caravan, held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Speaking at that event was Lieutenant Governor Goodwin J. Knight. Other images of the Historical Caravan include pictures of the exhibits inside the van and the van on location in Sycamore Grove (the Highland Park area of Los Angeles), at the Pio Pico Adobe in Whittier, and at China Lake. The collection contains photographs of the Centennial Commission float at the Hollywood High School premiere of "California's Golden Beginnings"; and at the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the centennial of Los Angeles's first post office. Notable figures in California politics and culture appear in the photographs. These include Eldred L. Meyer, past Grand President of Native Sons of the Golden West and Walter N. Bailey, Grand President of the Native Sons of the Golden West at the opening of the gold mining exhibit in Pershing Square; Goodwin J. Knight, Lloyd D. Mitchell, Manager of the Southern California Division, and Governor Earl Warren. The collection contains photographs by Otto Rothschild, Coy Watson, J. Allen Hawkins, David F. Stevens, Lew Nichols, Louis, Gerhardt, Dick Whittington Studio, Inman Company, Woro Studios, Randolph Studios, Pacific Press Photos, Merriman Photo Art, Junis & Pearson Photo, and Frashers Inc.
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