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Origins & Displacements I - IV
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A portfolio of eight albumen photographic prints (16 x 20 inches; mounts 20 x 24 inches) by William Camargo. The title page contains an artist's statement and the following edition information: "A suite of eight albumen prints arranged in four diptychs in an edition of five, with one artist's proof, one printer's proof, and one bat [bon à tirer proof]. Published by The f/0 Project, printed by Barret Oliver, 2002." Four photographs are from Camargo's long-term series called Origins & Displacements: Making Sense of Place, Histories & Possibilities, which includes still lifes from around his hometown of Anaheim, California. Along with those works are four self-portraits of Camargo holding signs with statements that reference gentrification, immigration, labor issues, police brutality, and histories of violence experienced by Mexican, Chicanx, and Latinx people in Southern California.
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Aspen Mays, Dionne Lee, Karolina Karlic, Mercedes Dorame, Tarrah Krajnak : field notes from Unseen California
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"In their ongoing interdisciplinary work, exhibited for the first time, the artists of Unseen California respond to the role photography has played in defining attitudes toward the iconic Western landscape by its omission of multi-valent histories embedded in the land. The dominant canon of American landscape photography is inextricable from a colonial orientation to the land and its resources: from the photographic surveys of the 19th century, to the "untouched" vistas depicted in the 20th century, and later the encroaching sprawl of the built environment documented in New Topographics. Rather, the artists here propose new epistemologies and ways of belonging."--Exhibit website, https://www.penumbrafoundation.org/project-gallery-current
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John B. Williams letter to Ogden Hoffman
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Williams relates that "we are all in a state of excitement here, as everything depends on Grant's success." He also writes of a recent bill that is to rearrange the judicial districts of California, and of the effort to repeal the Act of 1860, which would transfer survey cases to the Land offices.
mssHM 19020
"We Call It Big Creek"
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["We Call It Big Creek" - Map-graphic showing layout of the Big Creek hydroelectric system)]
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Here and there
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Bound in textured black material. The title, "Here and There," is embossed in the lower right corner of cover in gold lettering. The number "40" is affixed to the top of spine with glue. Album contains photos of the Londons on a 1911 trip to Oregon, and color postcards of tourist sites around the United States.
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H. T. Scott journal
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This journal is H.T. Scott's account of his overland journey to California. Most of the daily entries document he and his party distance traveled that day, and where they camped. Upon arriving at Sonora in the final entry, Scott writes, "We can get plenty here to eat we was very glad when we could see the town sum." Dated 1852, April 13 through August 23. Also included is a photocopied facsimile of the diary.
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