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Collection of California Views

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Description: A collection of 71 photographs with views of California, including the cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara, and lanscapes in Yosemite National Park, Mariposa Grove, and Sunny Slope Winery in San Gabriel. The photographs of San Francisco show hotels, Chinatown, Golden Gate Park, and the homes of people like Governor Stanford, Mrs. Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker, and J.C. Flood. Views of the Yosemite Valley show numerous waterfalls and rock formations such as El Capitan and Half Dome. All of the images except one are photographs by I. W. Taber; one image is a reproduction of an illustrations of a wagon drawn by six horses racing along a cliff, signed E.A. Rockwell and dated 1876 (Item 10).
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1887-approximately 1906
Call number: photCL 103
Provenance: Purchased from Edward Morrill & Son Books, 1958.

California

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Disbound album containing 48 commercial photographs of California, the majority by photographer Isaiah W. Taber, especially of San Francisco, Monterey, and Yosemite. Views of San Francisco show the bay, Fort Point, Palace Hotel, California Street Hill, a Chinese restaurant interior, a vegetable and butcher shop and a Protestant mission school in Chinatown, cable cars, Golden Gate Park, Cliff House, and snow in the city (image dated February 1887). Views of Monterey show the first barracks of U.S. troops, the Hotel del Monte, El Carmel Bay, and a cypress tree. Views of Yosemite show Glacier Point, the Lower Cascades, Yosemite Falls, El Capitan, and the North Dome. Other subjects that appear in only single images are San Rafael, Marin County; Healdsburg, Sonoma County; the J. C. Flood residence, also known as Linden Towers, in Menlo Park; Mission San Luis Rey; Mount Shasta; the Geysers, Sonoma County; Riverside; Santa Barbara; a black oak forest; a monument at the Mexico-California border; Calaveras; Mariposa Grove; a mountain lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains; Lick Observatory, near San Jose; a vineyard house; and an orange grove in Los Angeles County. Many of the photographs can be attributed to I. W. Taber; others are ascribed to "J. R. B."

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Miscellaneous California photographs

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A collection of 19 photographs by I.W. Taber showing views of California, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Yosemite, and the San Gabriel Valley. Some of the photographs show street scenes, others are focused on hotels, mountains, missions, vineyards, orange groves, and mountains. Eighteen of the photographs are by I. W. Taber, with the remaining one image by H. E. Mathews and published by Taber (Item 10).

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Charles Victor Hall Lantern Slide Collection of California Views

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This collection of 166 lantern slides depicting urban, agricultural, and nature scenes of California in the 1870s were created by real estate developer Charles Victor Hall as a visual accompaniment to his traveling lecture promoting California's resources and benefits. The lecture aimed to encourage New Englanders and Europeans to relocate to California. The majority of the lantern slides depict scenes from northern California, including Yosemite National Park and San Francisco. Some southern California views are also shown, including San Diego and Los Angeles County. Other slides of interest are views of the California ranches of F.P.F. Temple, Ellwood Cooper, F.D. Bacon, Maria Sepulveda, L.J. Rose Jr. (and family), and H.H. Moore. Portraits of General John C. Fremont and actress Maude Granger are also featured in the collection. This collection is significant in its images of Native Americans in California, mainly in the Yosemite area; see slides (56), (60), (64), (66), (67), (68), and (74). Many of the images were possibly photographed by Bradley & Rulofson, as stated in newspaper clippings from 1874-75, found in Hall's scrapbooks. In addition, Hall said that he purchased his "views and instruments" from Houseworth & Co. (The Morning Call, Sept. 23, 1874, p. 14). The images were most likely taken by several different photographers, including Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge. In addition to the lantern slides, three copy negatives depicting the logging industry are also included (Items 219-221). There is also a printing plate portrait of Charles Victor Hall(item 222), and a few photographs: portraits of Charles Victor Hall and his wife Josephine Dalton, and views of his residence in Los Angeles (items 223 - 227)..

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[Album of commerical views of California]

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A photograph album with commerical photographic prints of various locations in California including: Santa Barbara, an orange grove in Riverside, Coronado Beach, Pasadena, a petrified forests in Napa Valley, San Luis Obispo, various locations in San Francisco including the Japanese Garden, and views of Yosemite. The location names are handwritten above the images. Several hotels in the various locations are also depicted. May have been compiled by an English tourist to the area as the album has a stamp: "Brough & Son, Commercial stationers, 6 Cannon Row, Westminster".

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Collection of Southern California and Mexico Photographs

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This collection contains photographs by commercial photographers, dated ca. 1890-1910, illustrating recreation and scenery on Catalina Island, a hotel and public parks in Southern California, and various historical sites and street scenes in Mexico City. Many of the photographs include tourists and local residents, such as bathers on Catalina Island, and people in parks and towns. Photographs of Catalina Island include views of Avalon, Sugarloaf Point, sailboats and glass-bottom boats, steamships, bathers at the beach, a tent city, and sailors of the steamship the "San Diego". California views include Missions San Gabriel, San Fernando, and San Juan Capistrano; the Coronado Hotel in San Diego; Central Park, St. James Park, and Hollenbeck Park (all based in Los Angeles); Adams Street in Los Angeles; the Shakespearean actress Helena [Madame] Modjeska's home in Orange County; and an interior view of Columbia Savings Bank's then president Aaron M. Ozum's residence at 3131 Figueroa Street, Los Angeles. Photographs of Mexico depict the Cathedral de Mexico, Paseo de la Reforma, interiors and exteriors of Castillo de Chapultepec, Hotel Iturbide, Mercado Volador, Canal de la Viga, the daily lives of Mexican citizens, the Zócalo (now known as the Plaza de la Constitución), and various street scenes. There are 12 miscellaneous photographs (102-114), in small square or circular format, mounted on board, that appear to be among the oldest here. They show cargo ships at shipping docks (one identified "McNab & Smith Draying") possibly in San Francisco, a steamship, and gardens. C. B. Waite photographed 19 of the 114 prints in this collection. Other photographers who contributed to this collection are Charles F. Ironmonger, Frank L. Park, Percy Cox and R. J. Carmichael, J. C. Hatton Noren F. Swenson, and the Special View Company. Two photographers were identified on some photographs only by their surnames: Graham and Scott.

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Tujunga and Sunland, California, photograph collection

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A collection of photographs depicting the early development of Tujunga, Tujunga Canyon, and Sunland, in Los Angeles County, California. The photographs were made by Tujunga photographer Joseph Lamson and date from approximately 1920 to 1945. Photographs show Tujunga's main business street, with a few storefronts, as well as parks, streams, houses and housing developments, the Little Landers community, and Bolton Hall. There are many bird's-eye-views showing the progressive development of the town, and several landscapes of Tujunga Canyon and Mount McGroarty, including crowds visiting the Cross of San Ysidro. Views of Sunland are mostly focused on Monte Vista Park and Sunland Park. The prints are later contact prints made from glass or film negatives, and many have handwritten identifications and are signed "Lamson."

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