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Photo with view over Emerald Bay of Maggie's Peaks in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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A panoramic view of Emerald Bay, with Fannette Island, surrounded by hills. The hills are heavily wooded with pine trees.
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Date built: 1938[?] ; Architect: Flewelling, Ralph C. ; Description: Interior and exterior views of several residences around Emerald Bay. The names of other architects appear on negatives, including "Cook," "Ainsworth" (presumably Robert), and "Van Pelt" (presumably Garrett). ; Publication(s): ** See Elizabeth H. Quilter, Emerald Bay, 1906-1976 (Laguna Beach, California: Mission Printing Co., 2nd ed., 1991).
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Date built: 1938[?] Architect: Flewelling, Ralph C. Description: Interior and exterior views of several residences around Emerald Bay. The names of other architects appear on negatives, including "Cook," "Ainsworth" (presumably Robert), and "Van Pelt" (presumably Garrett). Publication(s): ** See Elizabeth H. Quilter, Emerald Bay, 1906-1976 (Laguna Beach, California: Mission Printing Co., 2nd ed., 1991).
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[Richard Barker, the "Hermit of Emerald Bay," on Ben Holladay's Wharf, August 28, 1870.]
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Photographs of the American West, dating from the 1870s to the 1890s, collected by Carl S. Dentzel (1913-1980), director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California, including a disbound album of photographs of Alaska taken by A. L. Broadbent. These views show Revenue Cutter Service ships and officers; Alaskan natives; towns; scenery; the fur trade and mission schools. Other notable photographs in this collection include portraits of John C. Frémont, Harrison Gray Otis, and John A. Sutter; a series of Lake Tahoe card photographs; and views of early western settlers around the time of the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. The collection also depicts Alaskan native graves; missionaries; walrus hunting; whaling ships; totem poles; officers in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service; vacationers throughout California; the logging industry; Kingston, New Mexico; Greek Orthodox church buildings; the first grand jury in Nome, Alaska; James Gilchrist Swan; and a portrait of one of the collection's photographers, Alfred Lee Broadbent. Photographers who contributed to this collection include William C. Billington, Alfred Lee Broadbent, F. Davey, Edward De Groff, Charles D. Kirkland, D. S. Mitchell, C.H. Shaffner, Julius Ulke, and Raper James Waters.
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