10-year-old Rose Wiley (photo donor) and 6-year-old brother Del Trujillo sitting on a woodpile at Trujillo Ranch in 1941. Wagon wheel with corn sheller in the background.
59-year-old Manuela Trujillo, grandmother of Rose Wiley (photo donor), sitting on a donkey that was used for transportation, in front of the ranch house in 1917. Manuela acted as ranch manager when her husband Francisco Trujillo was away.
A neighborhood baling crew that included Jesus Santa Maria (aboard baler), Dolores Trujillo (first from right), father of Rose Wiley (photo donor), George Cheney (second from right), and others building hay on Santa Maria Ranch in Topanga circa...
Anadromous adult steelhead trout found in Topanga Creek in 2009. The Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains (RCDSMM) created the Topanga Creek Stream Team in 1996 to harness the passion of some of the local volunteers who are...
Anadromous adult steelhead trout found in Topanga Creek in 2009. The Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains (RCDSMM) created the Topanga Creek Stream Team in 1996 to harness the passion of some of the local volunteers who are...
Baby Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) sitting on the laps of her great-grantmother Prestine with her mother Harriet Swenson (right) and grandmother Lillian Hill standing in the garden of their house in Kankakee, Illinois, circa 1942.
Barn owl raised by Jon Swenson, brother of Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor). Picture was taken at family property on Fontaine Road in Topanga circa 1960.
Cabins stud hillside at Kneen's Kamp with Katherine Kneen standing in the picture taken circa 1920. In 1915, Thomas W. Kneen, maternal grandfather of Lynn Dickhoff (photo donor), purchased property on the high way north of Topanga Woods on the...
Cars parked along Topanga Highway for Christian Science church services. Christian Science was the first denomination to build a church in Topanga. In the early 1920s Christian Science practitioner Mable Lewis rented a cottage at Kneen's Kamp and...
Certificate from the General Land Office in Los Angeles, California, to Francisco Trujillo, grandfather of Rose Wiley (photo donor), to secure a land grant of 160 acres in Topanga on April 17, 1899.
Children of Anderson, Haeggquist, Needham, Spiese, Rosenquist, Hoffman and Zack families at the birthday party of Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) in 1952 at the front yard of the Swenson family house on Fontaine Road in Topanga. Sitting on the...
Children playing a game outside the schoolhouse. The Spanish style Topanga school was built in 1925 with classroom, stage and indoor restrooms, later became the American Legion Hall (now Froggy's Topanga Fish Market). Picture taken circa 1926.
David Swenson (left), brother of Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor) with cousin Mark Herranen and family goat Dolly at the family home on Fontaine Road in Topanga in 1952.
Dolores Trujillo, father of Rose Wiley (photo donor), on horseback on old Eden Drive in Topanga, circa 1928. Photo taken by his English friend Jane B. Reed.
Dolores Trujillo, father of Rose Wiley (photo donor), racing in cart at Spring Grade or Twin Poles near current Topanga Beach after working on road circa 1913.
Dolores Trujillo, father of Rose Wiley (photo donor), sitting on cabin porch in 1952 next to the original ranch sign that reads "Trujillo Ranch, 1886". The sign was made in 1935 and later incorporated into the Trujillo Ranch entry gate built by his...
Dolores Trujillo, father of Rose Wiley (photo donor), standing in front of the old ranch house in Topanga with his dog and English friend, Jane B. Reed, whose husband, Earl Reed, took the photo. The English couple was living in Calabasas,...
