Two (2) albumen boudoir photographs mounted recto and verso to a single album sheet. Each taken in the outer vicinity of Los Angeles in the 1890s. Views include: 

1. El Molino, the Old Mill. S. Pasadena, Cal. 82. Outdoor view of the El Molino Viejo showing artist Elizabeth Borglum as she paints the ruins while her husband, sculptor Gutzon Borglum, observes. 

El Molino Viejo, or the Old Mill, is a former grist mill in the San Rafael Hills in present-day San Marino. Built in 1816 by Father José Maria de Zalvidea of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel and is the oldest commercial building in California. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and operated as a historic museum. 

Elizabeth "Lisa" Borglum (1848-1922) was an American painter who specialized in still lifes and landscapes. She studied at the California School of Design (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and moved to Los Angeles to study with William Keith, renowned for his Tonalist-Barbizon style California landscapes. She met Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941) in 1885 while teaching him art. In 1889, the two artists married, despite Lisa being 19 years his senior. 

They traveled and exhibited in Europe until 1892, when they returned to California, settling in the Sierra Madre, not far from El Molino Viejo. The Borglums continued to tour Europe but separated in 1903 (divorcing in 1908), with Lisa returning to the Sierra Madre home "El Rosario" where she continued teaching and producing art. She is included in the 4-volume work Emerging from the Shadows: A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960, and 10 of her paintings were included in an exhibition of "lost" California women artists at the Pasadena Museum of History in 2019. 

Gutzon is best remembered for his work on Mount Rushmore and other public artworks. 

WITH Snapshot detail of the Borglums from the original view.

ALSO WITH Yesterday, Los Angeles. 21 November 1982. Newspaper clipping reproducing the view and identifying the Borglums, though Lisa is recorded only as Gutzon's wife. 

2. On the Trail to Wilson's Peak. 121. 

A Southern California mountain expedition view depicting a pack train making its ascent along the rugged, chaparral-lined dirt trail toward the summit of Wilson's Peak (Mount Wilson) in the San Gabriel Mountains. The scene captures two gentlemen on foot outfitted for a wilderness trek alongside a heavily laden pack donkey carrying wooden equipment crates, preceded by another pack burro and a mounted rider on horseback navigating the steep mountain switchback.

Originally blazed as an ancient indigenous route and improved in 1864 by pioneer Benjamin Davis "Don Benito" Wilson to harvest timber, the Mount Wilson Trail became world-renowned in the late 1880s and 1890s as a celebrated destination for scientific expeditions, burro excursions, hikers, and astronomers transporting sensitive scientific apparatus to establish early observatories on the summit.

An excellent pair of views from the greater Los Angeles vicinity. 

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Very good condition overall, displaying top-tier tone, clarity, and contrast throughout the print. The card mount remains flat and structurally sound, showing light, even age toning. The top edge may be slightly trimmed.