Photographs of Pacific Grove and Monterey area

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  Monterey, California

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  A History of the Presidio of Monterey, 1770 to 1970. Monterey, Calif.: Defense Language Institute, 1970.

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  Photographs of California Missions collection

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  The collection of mounted albumen California Mission views include seventy various interior and exterior images of the Royal Presidio Chapel of San Carlos de Barromeo de Monterey, Mission Santa Barbara, Mission San Carlos de Barromeo de Carmelo, Mission San Diego de Alcalá, San Fernando Rey de España, San Gabriel Arcángel, Mission San Juan Bautista, Mission San Juan Capistrano, Mission San Luis Rey, Mission San Miguel Arcángel, Mission San Antonio Padua, and the Mission San Antonio de Pala. The majority of the collection's annotations note "Hardy, 1945" which may refer to the Grahame Hardy collection acquired in 1945. Several images credit Waite as the photographer.

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  Monterey and Pacific Grove

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  The C.C. Pierce collection constitutes one of the most important collections of historical photographs of early California and Los Angeles extant. The collection of 10,100 prints was assembled by Charles C. Pierce, a photographer and long-time operator of a thriving Los Angeles photographic business. The collection is divided into nine topical headings devised by Pierce; these include Los Angeles Historical; Indians; Missions; California cities, counties, etc.; Industries and Agriculture; Transportation; Natural History; Art and Architecture; and Miscellaneous Scenery. Within these large sections are smaller categories that focus on the history, landscape, people, civic and cultural events, built environment, and development of Southern California and the Southwest from approximately 1845-1930. Of particular interest are the various Indian tribes depicted as well as all twenty-one of the California Missions.

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  [Photograph album of the Grove family of Ferne House]

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  Scrapbook and photograph album containing pasted photographic prints primarily of carte-de-visite portrait views of various men, women, and children, some in groups, including members of the Grove family and associated families in England, dating from approximately the late 1850s to the late 1860s, as well as portrait views of British royalty, religious and political leaders, and authors and artists. The album also contains pasted illustrations primarily of animals, religious and sentimental scenes, and photographs of buildings including Ferne House, the residence of Dr. John Grove in Donhead St. Andrew, Wiltshire, England, and churches, university buildings, an 1867 wedding party, a croquet game, and European travel destinations. Many of the images have handwritten identifications and some of the images are adorned with original artwork including decorative, hand-colored borders. The album was presumably created by a member of the Grove family, perhaps Emma Philippa Grove (1837-1825), and the portraits focus on the families of the children of Dr. John Grove and Jean Fraser Grove: Louise Grove Selwyn and her husband Frederick Selwyn; Henrietta Grove Hussey and her husband James Hussey; Thomas Fraser Grove and his wife Katherine O'Grady Grove; Helen Sophia Ross and her husband John Ross, and Emma Philippa Grove. Three loose items are tucked into the volume.

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  Carleton Watkins photographs: Mammoth Tree Grove, Yosemite

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  This collection contains 430 albumen photographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California in the 1870s and 1880s, as well as 223 card photographs by photographer Alfred A. Hart documenting the construction of the western half of the transcontinental railroad by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in the 1860s, which were later published by Watkins under his own imprint. Images by Watkins depict locations in Arizona and California including: Lake Tahoe, Los Angeles, the Mammoth Tree Grove, Paso Robles, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Gabriel, San Luis Obispo, San Pedro, Santa Monica, Soda Springs, Wilmington, and Yosemite, as well as views related to the Southern Pacific Railroad and of the Colorado River. There are a few images of Native Americans in Arizona and California, and several images related to trains and railroads. The photographs have been removed from the original album, which is a large leather album with brass bindings (Box 10). There are some handwritten identifications in the album pages, most likely written after if was received by the Library.

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  Photographs of the Huntington Desert Garden

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  A group of 8 x 10-inch, black-and-white photographs of desert plant specimens in the Huntington Desert Garden, taken approximately 1928-1940 by an unknown photographer. The photographs show agave, aloe, cacti, euphorbia and others, and most have typed labels with species names, country of origin, and descriptive information. Several plants were cultivated from Mexico. This collection also contains two photographs of trees in open fields in Pasadena, a Valley Oak and a Monterey Cypress.

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