Manuscripts

Photographs (small)

Description: Primarily cabinet card photographs and cartes-de-visite, 13 x 18 cm or smaller.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1870s-1930s
Call number: mssBehymer
Creator: Behymer, Lynden Ellsworth(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Lynden E. Behymer (Minetta Sparks), December 1948.; Gift of Mrs. Lynden E. Behymer (Minetta Sparks), June 1952.; Gift of California State University, Northridge, May 1976.; Gift of Music Center Operating Company, September 1993.; Gift of Arvonne Behymer Degenfelder, March 2015.

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Manuscripts

Photographs 50 x 60 cm or smaller.

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Photographs (large)

Manuscripts

Photographs 29 x 38 cm or smaller.

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Manuscripts

Photographs 21 x 26 cm or smaller.

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Photograph albums of the Rix and Maurer Families

Visual Materials

The collection consists of six photograph albums of the Rix and Maurer families depicting life in Northern California and the San Francisco Bay area. Volume 1 (disbound) contains 48 cartes-de-visite portraits of classmates of Annie Rix in San Francisco, ca. 1874; Volume 2: disbound album of 26 cartes-de-visite portraits related to the Rix family, ca. 1860s-1880s; Volume 3: Yosemite snapshots, June 1905 (58 photographs; prints various sizes in album 19 x 27 cm); Volume 4: Snapshots, 1870s-1915 of family, friends, social gatherings, residences, and pets in San Francisco and Berkeley, including views of the buildings at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915 (approx. 290 photographs; prints various sizes, album 18 x 28 cm); Volume 5: photograph album of Mildred Maurer, 1912-1916 with photographs of Lake Chabot in Piedmont Park, Diamond Canyon, and Yosemite (approximately 122 photographs; prints various sizes, album 19 x 27 cm); Volume 6: images taken in France in 1919 during World War I and in California in 1920 (approx. 300 photographs; prints various sizes, album 18.5 x 29 cm).

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U.S. Railroads - Small

Rare Books

Majority 46 x 61 cm. (18 x 24 inches and smaller.

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Cartes-de-visite (photographs)

Visual Materials

Approximately 5,000 cartes-de-visite and a few tintypes, almost all portraits. The carte-de-visite, or calling card photograph, is generally an albumen print mounted on cardstock, 4 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches. Some photographs are hand colored or have handwritten names written on the back. The binders contain about 200 to 250 photographs each.

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