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San Marino, CA 91108
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The 122 prints depict Alaskan nature scenes, some Native American totems, and a variety of scenic views in the western United States. These photographs were taken circa 1890s. The collection is particularly strong in images of Caucasian tourists; Salt Lake City, Utah; Manitou Springs and Colorado Springs, Colorado; Wrangell, Alaska; Sitka, Alaska; Alaskan natives; glaciers; British Columbia health resorts; and Western railway lines. Brigham Young, a leader of the Mormon Church, is listed as a personal name index term because a photograph of his grave is included in this collection.
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This collection contains approximately 10,000 photographs, negatives and ephemera created or compiled by Grace Nicholson (1877-1948), a collector and dealer of Native American and Asian arts and crafts in Pasadena, California. The bulk of the collection dates from 1903 to the 1920s and includes photograph albums and individual photographs with views of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, California, and the Southwest of North America; pictures documenting Nicholson's basket collecting trips primarily between 1902 and 1912; images of Nicholson's stores and residences in Pasadena, including the building of the "Grace Nicholson Treasure House of Oriental Art" in the mid-1920s; and personal photographs of Nicholson, her family, friends, and associates. Nicholson's personal snapshots and photograph albums provide a valuable resource for studying Native American communities, particularly in Northern California, in the early 20th century. Many of the photographs depict daily life and include images of homes, community events, dances and rituals, families and children, and portraits. Most of these photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson or her assistant, Mr. Carroll S. Hartman, and are often accompanied by Nicholson's handwritten identifications.
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Image of a promotional calendar from Pabst Extract featuring a bust-length portrait of a Native American Indian man in full tribal regalia and feathered headdress surrounded by vignettes of village life, dancing, and significant objects including pipe, basket, pelts, sheathed knife, tomahawk, doll, beaded leather pouch, and shells; advertising text and "Hiawatha's Wooing" printed on verso.
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Image of a broadside with a double-hemisphere pictorial map of the world. The title is separated by a decorative image of universal dial plates or “times of all nations.” Above the dial plates is an image of “Father Time” shown holding a scythe and is seated next to an hourglass. The print has stylized borders on the left-and-right margins that show examples of currencies across the world, starting on the left with coins from the United States, and ending on the right with a coin from Northern Africa. Each corner of the print has a vignette with a portrait of a man representing different races, they are labeled, “Caucasian, Mongul, Malay and African.” Above the world maps, spanning the width of the print, are engravings of “Principal Varieties of the Human Race,” showing stylistic representations of male physiognomy of men from different regions of the world, starting with “Samoieda,” and ending with “Tasmanian.” Shown circling the upper portions of the world maps are engravings. The left map, featuring North and South America, has small engravings of people hunting buffalo, collecting sugar cane, traveling the Andes, and more. The right portion of the map features continents Africa, Asia, and Europe with engravings of a Pagoda, St. Paul’s Cathedral, wild animals and more. The two maps meet in the middle, with two figures greeting, the man from the western hemisphere is dressed in a top hat and suit, while the man from the eastern hemisphere is dressed in an Asian conical hat and loose robes. Below the map, also spanning the width of the print, are engravings of "Female Costumes of the Different Parts of the World, categorized by Nations of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, and Oceanica.” Text on the map provides statistical and historical information about the world’s greatest libraries, ancient cities, celebrated battles, population, and geographical terrain.
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A collection of photographs documenting miner Robert S. Watt and family living in the mountains of Los Angeles County at the turn of the 20th century. Views show daily activities and places visited; people hunting and living in cabins; horses; and a few group portraits, such as Los Angeles County Hospital Nurses on a picnic (1905) with names written on back. Other views show ships and a harbor, possibly in San Pedro, California; Los Angeles buildings (Plaza Church and County Courthouse) and oil wells. Mining scenes include the Watt Mines Supply Co. building in Los Angeles; men at an excavation; stamp mill machinery; a man standing at entrance to mine; and mule teams with supplies. There is also a group of photographs of Alaska, showing trappers, roadhouses, scenery, and a miner staking a claim on a river. There are also two U.S. citizenship certificates for Robert S. Watt (1890) and Alexander Barrie (1901), emigrants from Scotland.
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The 122 prints depict Alaskan nature scenes, some Native American totems, and a variety of scenic views in the western United States. These photographs were taken circa 1890s. The collection is particularly strong in images of Caucasian tourists; Salt Lake City, Utah; Manitou Springs and Colorado Springs, Colorado; Wrangell, Alaska; Sitka, Alaska; Alaskan natives; glaciers; British Columbia health resorts; and Western railway lines. Brigham Young, a leader of the Mormon Church, is listed as a personal name index term because a photograph of his grave is included in this collection.
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