An Apiary on the Foothills of San Gabriel, circa 1878
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Missions in southern California raised fruit and vegetables to feed local populations. The temperate climate that supported year-round cultivation drew growers specializing in grapes, fruit trees, and berry bushes. Bees played a critical role in crop production. This stereograph indicates the investment viticulturalists and fruit-growers made in hives to sustain pollinators, the essential ingredient in their farming system.
Missions in southern California raised fruit and vegetables to feed local populations. The temperate climate that supported year-round cultivation drew growers specializing in grapes, fruit trees, and berry bushes. Bees played a critical role in crop production. This stereograph indicates the investment viticulturalists and fruit-growers made in hives to sustain pollinators, the essential ingredient in their farming system.
Artifact
Stereograph
Date Made
circa 1878
Subject Date
circa 1878
Keywords
United States, California, San Gabriel Mountains
United States, California, Pasadena
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2020.0.1.2
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Card stock
Technique
Photographic processes
Color
Yellow
Dimensions
Height: 4.375 in
Width: 7 in
Inscriptions
front, right-side image, bottom: No. 163. An Apiay on the Foothills of San Gabriel front of mount: Photographed and Published by A.C. Varela, Los Angeles, Cal. back, in pencil writing: 9 mi back of Los Angeles, Cal
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