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Photographs of Pacific Grove and Monterey area

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Description: A photograph album containing scenic amateur views of Pacific Grove, California, and the surrounding area including Monterey. Includes views of the beach and surf, cypress trees, Point Lobos, scenes of the Chinese fishing village in Pacific Grove, exterior views of the Mission El Carmelo, the Monterey Custom House, and one of the San Carlos Cathedral (Royal Presidio Chapel). The images have brief penciled captions written in the margins.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1900-approximately 1905.
Call number: photCL 428
Provenance: Purchased from Schoyer's Books, September 1999.
Dimensions: images chiefly 9 x 12 cm (3 1/2 x 5 in), album 14 x 18 cm

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.

photPF 3330-3401

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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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Central Valley and Central Coast California photographs

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Contents: Office of the Fresno Expositor (stereograph by Ira W. Byington); Santa Barbara Mission (exterior and interior views); Panorama of San Luis Obispo City; San Luis Obispo Mission (reconstruction elevation); Molus Mine (Mono County); Point Lobos group portrait (Monterey County). Annotations on the photographs note "Hardy 1945."

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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.

photCL 38

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VIII. Pacific Grove Retreat Association, also 4 volumes, see B(a) XVI

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The collection consists of letters, documents (including 307 bound volumes) and some photographs related to the life, land holdings, and business activities of David Jacks. The correspondence spans the years 1855 to 1919, and the business and legal papers related to Monterey are from 1835 to 1926. The collection also includes information about the Pacific Grove Retreat Association from 1875 to 1911.

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Photographs of Pacific Grove and Monterey area

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