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The pageant of history in Northern California : its colorful and adventuresome beginnings

Description: Image on the poster is of Northern California with numerous figures and buildings depictiing important historical moments in the history of Northern California, including Fort Ross, San Jose, San Francisco, the discovery of gold, wine making, forestry, railroads, and ranching; there is a brighter circle of images in the center with outer edges dimmer. "Published on its 100th Anniversary by American Trust Company, San Francisco"--text below the title.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1954
Call number: priJHK 00122
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The pageant of history in Northern California : its colorful and adventuresome beginnings

Visual Materials

Artists: Sheets, Millard, 1907- Publishers: American Trust Company Companies: American Trust Company

priJHK 00122

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California - Northern vs. Southern

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: various chronologies recording dates of newspaper articles from both L.A. and San Francisco related to the often rocky relationship between the two cities and between northern and southern California; clips and copies from newspapers in both cities; 4-pp. reprint featuring stories from San Francisco, dated 4/19/1906, and headed "The Call=Chronicle=Examiner," all under the banner headline "Earthquake and fire...San Francisco in ruins"; transcription of S.F. Call editorial of 11/21/1908, "San Francisco does not forget," responding to alleged slurs by Harrison Gray Otis in LAT; 3-pp. chronology, headed "SO. CAL. vs. NO. CAL., 1881 - [1911] ; memo with attached clips, on LAT coverage of the point in the early 1960s when California became the most populous state in the union.

mssLAT

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[Unidentified mansion, Northern California]

Visual Materials

This collection contains 269 stereographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins, dating from the 1860s to about the 1880s, that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California. The collection includes 1 stereograph from the Central Pacific Railroad series; 5 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Railroad Series; 110 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Coast series; and 150 stereographs from Watkins' New Series. The Watkins' Pacific Coast Series, created between 1861 and 1874, primarily depict locales in Northern California with many images of buildings in San Francisco, views of Yosemite and Mariposa County, Missions, and some mining operations including photographs of the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company in Nevada County, California. The Watkins' New Series stereographs, created between 1874 and 1890, consist of images of both Southern California and Northern California, in cities including San Francisco, Pasadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre, and San Gabriel. Among the Southern California residences and properties depicted include the Sunny Slope Ranch of L.J. Rose in San Gabriel, Willow Dale owned by N.C. Carter, and Lake Vineyard owned by B.D. Wilson. Some of the stereographs in Watkins' Pacific Coast Series include titles in the margins in Watkins' own hand (see Nos. 1033, 1135, 1146, 1153, and 1721).

photST Watkins

Hutching’s Panoramic Scenes - Northern California

Rare Books

Image contains six vignettes, each of a different view of locations in northern California. These include Shasta, Jacksonville, Yreka [sic], Mount Shasta, Scott's Bar, and Weaverville. There is descriptive text under each vignette. "C.C. Kuchel-Dressel Del."--text, lower left corner of upper two vignettes. "W.C. Butler, S.F."--text, lower corner of all vignettes. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by James M. Hutchings, in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Published by Jas. M. Hutchings, San Francisco."--text, below image. Paper color: buff.

48052:031

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Photograph album of U.S. Army camp and military parades in Northern California

Visual Materials

An album of 44 photographs mounted on heavy boards with several images related to soldiers based in Northern California around 1898. The album begins with views of Boulder Creek and the town of Ben Lomond in the Santa Cruz Mountains, followed by views of San Francisco, including the Cliff House (the second building, which was built in 1896), the Ferry Building and ferries in the bay, and a military parade of soldiers marching down a city street in San Francisco. There are several bird's-eye-views of an unidentified U.S. Army camp with tents, fort buildings, and images of soldiers drilling, probably in the San Francisco Bay area. Another patriotic military parade is shown in a small town, with a replica of the battleship Maine (which was sunk in 1898), American flags, bicyclists, and children dressed as sailors. The back of the album contains family photographs with portraits of women in long dresses posed inside a house, and an older couple outside a gingerbread style Victorian house with a garden.

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Collection of miscellaneous Northern California photographs and portraits

Visual Materials

The collection of images include a botanical specimen photograph card (sarcodes sanguniea torrey or snow plant of the Sierra), a U.S. Army encampment scene (Sacramento), portraits, and buildings. Among the photographs are roof tops (San Jose), the Santa Barbara Mission capturing priests in the corridor, Auburn Poultry Producer (store facade), William Chapman Ralston (1826-1875) San Francisco Banker, Miss Adams (Mormon actress), Mary Anderson's farm (Oakland), and a postcard photograph of First Bank in Northern California at Coloma. The Auburn Poultry photograph is noted as being a gift of Collis Halladay (1893) and a majority of the photographs cite "Hardy, 1945" which may refer to the original Grahame Hardy collection acquired in 1945.

photPF 3520-3549

The pageant of history in Northern California : its colorful and adventuresome beginnings

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