Album of views of Southern California, New Mexico, and Colorado

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  Photograph album of views of Southern California, the Southwest, and Mexico

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  One disbound photograph album, 74 pages, with approximately 230 prints depicting chiefly Southern California locations and gold mining country in Northern Mexico, taken by various photographers including C. P. Warden and Company (Los Angeles), Graham Photo Company (Los Angeles), Richard H. Kindig, Norman H. Reed (Santa Barbara), Pillsbury (Los Angeles), Gray, and unidentified photographers.

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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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  Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Views

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  This collection contains 1289 photographs, chiefly gelatin silver prints, reflecting the professional life and travels of American impressionist painter Alson Skinner Clark, some taken by Alson Clark and some by commercial and unidentified photographers, from approximately 1889-1939. The collection chiefly comprises portraits of Alson and his wife Atta Medora Clark; photographs depicting their studio home in the Arroyo Seco area of Los Angeles County, California; views of Clark's work, including murals at the Pasadena Playhouse, the Polytechnic Elementary School, and the First Trust and Savings Bank in Pasadena; and images of Alson Clark's travels, both with and without Medora Clark, to Thousand Islands, New York; throughout the Southwestern United States; Mexico; and, to a lesser extent, in Europe and Canada. The collection also includes photograph albums depicting the aftermath of World War I in Europe and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 in San Diego, and photographs depicting various locations in India, China, and Korea in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This collection is directly related to the Alson Skinner Clark papers, 1870-1971, bulk 1890-1940, held by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

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  Family photograph albums with scenes from Illinois, Maine, Nebraska, California, and New Mexico

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  Two albums with 96 photographs of family portraits and scenes taken in Illinois, Maine, Nebraska, California, and New Mexico. The first volume contains images of domestic life and residential streets in Evanston, Illinois, in 1887-1888; a family vacation to Searsmont and Appleton, Maine, in the summer of 1889; and life in Schuyler, Nebraska, in 1890. The second album begins with a family trip through New Mexico and California from February to March 1890, then turns to scenes of domestic life and street scenes in Omaha, Nebraska, from 1890 to 1893. Among the locations are Santa Fe, New Mexico; Colton, California; Alhambra, California; Santa Barbara, California; San Francisco, California; Collinsville, California; and Council Bluffs, Iowa. While most of the photographs are arranged chronologically, the end of second volume contains some additional family photographs from 1888-1890. Both volumes contain a number of informal family portraits, with many taken outdoors. Notable images include interior views of the family's parlor and dining room, with family members seated for a meal, laundry drying outdoors, the interior of the Schuyler National Bank, a maypole, a President's Day celebration in 1891, and the display of silver wedding gifts. The two group portraits from Collinsville, California, include a Chinese man dressed in traditional clothing. One photograph in the second album created with flash photography is labeled "First Flash Light Picture ; New Years Eve Dec. 21, 1891", and there is also a self-portrait of the family photographer with a camera.

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  Alice D. Perkins travel scrabooks of trips to Colorado, California and Mexico

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  The scrapbook covers two trips, by train, that Perkins took with Raymond-Whitcomb, Inc. The first is a trip to Colorado and California in 1882 and the second is a trip to Mexico in 1888. The first excursion made stops at Pueblo and Denver, Colorado; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Yosemite National Park, California. The second excursion made stops at Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Quéretaro, and Mexico City, Mexico. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, postcards, as well as a "Pocket Guide to Mexico," and "Brief Guide to Mexico City." There is also a handwritten reminiscence of the excursions written by Perkins' granddaughter in 1920.

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  Album of photographs of the American West, especially California and Colorado

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  An album with 38 commercial photographs of the western United States, focusing especially on California and Colorado. Views of California show Los Angeles, Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, Pasadena, San Francisco, the Mount Lowe Railway, Santa Monica, San Diego, Long Beach, San Joaquin Valley, Santa Anita, the Hotel del Coronado, and San Diego Bay. Images of Colorado show Pike's Peak, the Garden of the Gods, Mountain of the Holy Cross, Curecanti Needle and the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and a high bridge near Georgetown. Other places that appear briefly in the album are Yellowstone National Park; Portland, Oregon; and ice floes in the Northern Pacific Ocean. Many of the photographs of California are by Best & Co, some are by I. W. Taber, and a view of the Hotel del Coronado is by Judd Photo (Item 22).

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