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The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
The Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 5157 glass plate negatives, film negatives, and panoramic negatives, 1889-1949, that depict commercial, residential and landscape sites in and around Pasadena and Southern California. The images provide a look at the commercial, residential and social development of Pasadena and surrounding areas during the early years of the twentieth century. The collection is especially rich in images of residential architecture in Pasadena, Altadena, and San Marino; images of Lake Tahoe; depictions of, and activities at, the Raymond, Maryland, and Huntington Hotels in Pasadena; and the commercial, social and cultural landscapes of Pasadena. The collection also provides, through its breadth and depth of subject matter, an example of the career activities of a commercial photographer in Southern California in the early years of the twentieth century.
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Album of amateur snapshots taken during trips chiefly in California, New England, and Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, from 1903 to 1905, with handwritten captions identifying the locaions depicted. The album begins with photographs documenting a trip to California beginning in the Yosemite Valley in May 1903 before progressing to Mariposa Grove, the Sacramento River, Shasta Springs, Sisson (Mount Shasta), San Francisco, the University of California, Berkeley, campus, including houses identified as "my homes," Santa Cruz, Monterey, the Hotel Del Monte, and the Santa Barbara Mission. There are images of New England and Upstate New York from 1903 to 1905 including Lake Pleasant, Massachusetts, Deerfield Valley, Connecticut, Charlestown, New Hampshire, South Framingham, Massachusetts, winter in Boston Harbor (1903-04), Lake Winnipesaukee, Seal Harbor and Mt. Desert Maine, and the New York State Capitol in Albany. There are also photographs from a trip in Summer 1905 to Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, with stops along the way in St. Paul, Minnesota, and at Minnehaha Falls, Minneapolis. Of note are a few photographs of President Theodore Roosevelt's arrival in Yosemite, including one captioned "President Roosevelt and John Muir." The photographs primarily depict the natural scenery including waterfalls, lakes, trees, and mountains, as well as hotels, tourist destinations, and landmarks. There are also some images of ice skating, sledding, and sleigh rides during the winter of 1904-05 in New England. The compiler of the album is unidentified though there is one photograph of a young couple on horseback at Yosemite labeled "You and I."
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Some images of James King Steele with Japanese travelers in Yosemite.
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Views along the Kuskowim River, Bethel, Nushagak, Togiak, Ounalaska and Bethel. Photographs of Eskimos, traders, trading posts, churches and buildings of these areas. Some very interesting "Before and After" shots of Eskimos with regard to the "civilizing" influence of Christianity. Portraits of Edith Kilbuck, one of the missionaries, and her children.
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