Manuscripts
Opalotype photograph and Santa Catalina Island book
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Paintings and photographs
Manuscripts
This collection contains five of Frances Lauderbach's travel journals which are illustrated with drawings, photographs, and postcards. Some of the places mentioned in the journals include Crater Lake and Oregon Caves in Oregon as well as Owens Valley and Mammoth Lakes in California. Two of the journals are titled "A camping trip without a car" and "A second camping trip without a car." There is a photograph of Lauderbach as a young girl as well as a photograph of two men holding a large Reese's tuna fish. The opalotype, a photograph printed on opaque, translucent white glass, depicts Lauderbach as a young child. There are two paintings, one of a coastal scene and one of fish and kelp.
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Journals
Manuscripts
This collection contains five of Frances Lauderbach's travel journals which are illustrated with drawings, photographs, and postcards. Some of the places mentioned in the journals include Crater Lake and Oregon Caves in Oregon as well as Owens Valley and Mammoth Lakes in California. Two of the journals are titled "A camping trip without a car" and "A second camping trip without a car." There is a photograph of Lauderbach as a young girl as well as a photograph of two men holding a large Reese's tuna fish. The opalotype, a photograph printed on opaque, translucent white glass, depicts Lauderbach as a young child. There are two paintings, one of a coastal scene and one of fish and kelp.
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Frances G. Lauderbach papers
Manuscripts
This collection contains five of Frances Lauderbach's travel journals which are illustrated with drawings, photographs, and postcards. Some of the places mentioned in the journals include Crater Lake and Oregon Caves in Oregon as well as Owens Valley and Mammoth Lakes in California. Two of the journals are titled "A camping trip without a car" and "A second camping trip without a car." There is a photograph of Lauderbach as a young girl as well as a photograph of two men holding a large Reese's tuna fish. The opalotype, a photograph printed on opaque, translucent white glass, depicts Lauderbach as a young child. There are two paintings, one of a coastal scene and one of fish and kelp.
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Avalon, Santa Catalina Island
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This album contains typical commercial photographs of the towns and scenery of California, Oregon and Washington dating from the 1890s. Of note are early views of San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Francisco, Tacoma, and Seattle. There are also views of California missions and coastal landscapes. The Oregon photographs are of scenery only. Photographs of California include San Diego; Casa de Estudillo in Old Town San Diego; Mission San Luis Rey, San Juan Capistrano, and Santa Barbara; Santa Barbara; San Luis Obispo; Confederate general James Longstreet's Los Angeles home; the Bellevue Terrace Hotel; various Los Angeles homes; Pasadena; Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin's Santa Anita ranch; San Francisco city scenes; and wilderness en route to Oregon. Oregon photographs show images of the Columbia River; Mt. Hood; Latourell Falls; Multnomah Falls; and nature scenes. Photographs of Washington state include Tacoma; Green River; Native Americans from an unidentified tribe; Seattle; and Angeline, the daughter of Chief Seattle of the Suquamish tribe. Twenty-six of the pictures in this album were photographed by Isaiah West Taber and twenty-two were photographed by W.H.J. and Company. It may be that William H. Jeffers created those twenty-two photographs, as he was active in California during this time period. Other photographers who contributed to this album include Thomas H. Rutter, Charles B. Talbot, and Boyd & Braas (William F. Boyd and George H. Braas). The initials "E.B.R." and the year 1897 are embossed on the photo album's spine.
photCL 94
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Santa Catalina Island
Visual Materials
The collection consists of photographs (the majority of which are housed in two photograph albums), negatives, published material, and ephemera that depict locations throughout California and the Western United States. Many of these were locations where Frank Rolfe, a geologist, worked on various surveys, including the Los Angeles aqueduct survey. The collection contains two photograph albums: one depicts the initial Los Angeles aqueduct survey, the second contains photographs of Los Angeles (central Los Angeles and neighborhoods where Rolfe and his wife lived), the San Gabriel Valley and other locations in Los Angeles County (Devil's Gate Dam, the San Gabriel Mountains, the St. Francis Dam and San Francisquito Canyon), San Bernardino County (the San Bernardino Mountains, Big Bear Lake), Riverside County (the Coachella Valley, Tahquitz Canyon, the Temescal Valley, Riverside, the San Jacinto Mountains), Kern County, and commercially produced images of Yosemite. Boxes 3 and 4 contain negatives; viewing of the negatives must be arranged with the Curator of Photographs. The negatives depict street scenes in central Los Angeles, including the wrecking of the Temple Block, the Amestoy Block, the Hall of Records, and Bunker Hill. Also included are views of the West Adams neighborhood; houses where Rolfe and his wife lived in the 1920s and 30s; the snowstorm of 1932; and the 1920 Inglewood earthquake. The collection also includes images of Hollywood and vicinity (including a number of photographs of the Mulholland Dam and images of Brentwood and Bel Air); Santa Monica (including the Santa Monica Mountains and Decker Canyon); Santa Catalina Island; north Los Angeles County (including the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys, the ruins of the Saint Francis Dam and San Francisquito Canyon, and the golden spike celebration at Lang); the San Gabriel Valley (including many views of the San Gabriel Mountains); Orange County (including Modjeska's home, Santiago Canyon, San Juan Capistrano, the Puente hills, and Santa Ana Canyon); San Diego County; San Bernardino County (including a number of photographs of mining camps, including Ivanpah and Camp Roach; construction of the Ludlow and Southern Railway; and mining operations, such as the Bagdad Chase Mine and the Bagdad Mining and Milling Company); Riverside County (including the Temescal Tin Mine, Temescal and the Temescal Valley, Hog Lake, the San Jacinto River, Mount San Jacinto, and Idyllwild); Ventura County; Kern County (images of the Kern River); Inyo County; Yosemite; northern California (including Stanford and Susie Lake); Nevada (Truckee River dam projects); Oregon; Washington; Utah; Glacier Park, Montana; people (Rolfe, his family and friends); and miscellaneous photographs (a number of desert views, mostly Southern California). The collection also contains commercial photographs of the Rolfe family, many in carte-de-visite format. The ephemerial materials consist of a letter written in 1862 from Sutter Creek by Rolfe's father Ovid to his brother Alfred in Dorchester, Massachusetts; biographical sketches of members of the Rolfe family; clippings compiled by Rolfe; Rolfe's high school and college diplomas; card files on Rolfe family history, covered wagons in Los Angeles, and Temescal history; and negative books.
photCL 400 volume 12
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Photographs of Santa Catalina Island
Visual Materials
Consists of ten photographs, nine of which are cabinet cards and one of which is a print. Photographs are primarily set in Avalon and feature the Hotel Metropole, the growth of the city, Avalon Bay, local wildlife, and the steamer ship Hermosa.
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