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San Marino, CA 91108
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Views of landscapes in Canada and Mexico; Shasta Dam; fields of flowers; Stockmen's Hotel sign; portraits of unidentified individuals; a hotel swimming pool and a lodge-type hotel; views of the yellow Jeepster; farm equipment and an airplane; cows; architectural details; a sculpture of Babe the Blue Ox; and numerous unidentified buildings.
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Photographs of Yosemite Valley taken approximately 1900 by an unidentified photographer. The 78 glass plate negatives all depict scenery and contain no people. Contact prints of all the negatives were made by the Huntington Library in the 1990s; see Box 1.
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Manuscripts
This manuscript is a collection of observations by Brantz Mayer concerning the Yosemite Valley. Written on a variety of sizes of paper, the majority of these being printed stationary for A. L. Bancroft & Company, these notes are largely descriptive with a poetic bent. Many are titled, such as "Yosemite Silence & Seclusion," "Yosemite's Water," "Yosemite Power of Perspective," and "Yosemite & Big Trees." Mayer writes in glowing fashion of the majesty of the meadows, mountains, and people of the area, and declares its overall beauty "unphotographable." Also included is a one-page printed pamphlet advertising a newly opened trail from Yosemite to Glacier Point, which proclaims "When you have been to GLACIER POINT you have seen the Yosemite Valley." The pamphlet also contains altitude measurements at various Yosemite Valley waterfalls, which are described by both Indian and American names.
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Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material consists of 57,893 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints; 39 presentation albums; and 17 boxes of office records, 1930-1974. Created primarily by Maynard Parker, the archive documents the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, builders, real estate developers, and clients associated with these fields, foremost among them the magazine House Beautiful. Also included in the collection are photographs taken by other individuals, such as architect Cliff May and Parker's assistant, Charles Yerkes.
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An album with 80 photographs of Yosemite National Park in California showing waterfalls, peaks, rock formations, and hotels. 55 photographs were taken by John Miller Hoffman and show the Wawona Hotel, Chilnualna Falls, Mariposa Grove, Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Valley, El Capitan, Half Dome, Mirror Lake, and Stoneman House. There are a few photographs of a group of seven men and four women, one near the top of Nevada Falls and another around a tall cairn. 25 of the photographs were taken by George Fiske and show Yosemite Valley, Half Dome, El Capitan, Cathedral Spires, and Sentinel Rock, and Barnard's hotel.
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Album of amateur snapshots taken during trips chiefly in California, New England, and Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, from 1903 to 1905, with handwritten captions identifying the locaions depicted. The album begins with photographs documenting a trip to California beginning in the Yosemite Valley in May 1903 before progressing to Mariposa Grove, the Sacramento River, Shasta Springs, Sisson (Mount Shasta), San Francisco, the University of California, Berkeley, campus, including houses identified as "my homes," Santa Cruz, Monterey, the Hotel Del Monte, and the Santa Barbara Mission. There are images of New England and Upstate New York from 1903 to 1905 including Lake Pleasant, Massachusetts, Deerfield Valley, Connecticut, Charlestown, New Hampshire, South Framingham, Massachusetts, winter in Boston Harbor (1903-04), Lake Winnipesaukee, Seal Harbor and Mt. Desert Maine, and the New York State Capitol in Albany. There are also photographs from a trip in Summer 1905 to Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, with stops along the way in St. Paul, Minnesota, and at Minnehaha Falls, Minneapolis. Of note are a few photographs of President Theodore Roosevelt's arrival in Yosemite, including one captioned "President Roosevelt and John Muir." The photographs primarily depict the natural scenery including waterfalls, lakes, trees, and mountains, as well as hotels, tourist destinations, and landmarks. There are also some images of ice skating, sledding, and sleigh rides during the winter of 1904-05 in New England. The compiler of the album is unidentified though there is one photograph of a young couple on horseback at Yosemite labeled "You and I."
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