Photograph albums of the Rix and Maurer Families | Collections | The Huntington

Photograph albums of the Rix and Maurer Families | Collections | The Huntington

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Hand-hammered copper and wood photograph album cover
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The collection consists of 61 gelatin silver prints made from x-ray negatives produced by Dr. Dain Loren Tasker. The collection also includes one hand-formed copper wire cursive signature label for x-rays and a hand-hammered copper and wood photograph album cover. A small number of the prints are labeled and signed by the artist. The prints depict x-ray images of a variety of flowers and plants as well as one snail. The prints range in size from 9 x 12.5 cm to 32 x 40 cm.
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F. Oskar Martin Photograph Collection
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This collection consists of photographs from three albums related to F. Oskar Martin's term in Panama overseeing the construction of the Panama Canal as well as family and other personal snapshots in what appear to be the American Southwest desert, dating from the early 1900s. Volume 1 contains 336 snapshots (chiefly 8.5 x 14.5 cm) from a disbound album, which document travels through the American West, presumably in California, Arizona, or Nevada, with views of various landscapes including desert and mountain regions, miscellaneous buildings, and images related to the petroleum industry including oil wells and oil well explosions. Items 287-289 are by photographer Sumner Matteson and depict men in mountain scenery. Volume 2 contains 44 black-and-white commercial photographs on pages from a disbound album (images 19 x 24 cm, album pages 27.5 x 35.5 cm). The images include both scenic views of locales, buildings, and local inhabitants in Panama as well as images documenting the construction of the Panama Canal, including workers, camps, and machinery. Handwritten captions on the pages indicate locations including Cathedral Park, Colon, Cristobal, Ancon, and Chagres River; the album was titled "Isthmus of Panama." Volume 3 consists of an album with 496 snapshots and commercial photograph divided between images of Panama and work on the Panama Canal and family images of Martin, his wife, and children, often on trips (images various sizes, album pages 25 x 31 cm).
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1.1 Photograph Albums
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This subseries contains nine photograph albums with many views of Native Americans; baskets and basket collections; Grace Nicholson's store and home in Pasadena, California; and images of Nicholson and others. Albums A-F consist of six albums with approximately 500 photos each, mostly documenting Grace Nicholson's six basket-collecting trips between 1902 and 1912 to Native American communities of the Northwest Coast, California, and Southwest. The photographs are black-and-white prints, mostly 3 x 4 inches, pasted in albums measuring 11 1/4 x 15 inches, with many captions in Nicholson's handwriting. Albums G-I are smaller volumes and consist of a volume of 25 commercial photographs of Indians (Album G); a volume with 25 photographs of Grace Nicholson's first collecting trip to Ukiah and Northern California in 1903 (Album H); and a volume of 29 photographs of various Native Americans made by an unknown compiler and later acquired by Grace Nicholson (Album I).
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Thomas Family Photograph Album
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A personal photograph album of 104 images with handwritten captions chiefly depicting Chester A. Thomas (1874-1920) and Thomas family members between 1892 and 1898 in mining camps in Nevada (pages 1-29); at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California (pages 30-33); visiting Harvard University and Cambridge, Massachusetts (pages 38-49); and at Camp Merritt at the Presidio, San Francisco, in 1898 (pages 33-37 and 50-65). The album includes 20 cyanotype photographs (12.5 x 16.5 cm) of the mining camps in Virginia City and Sutro, Nevada (where Thomas's father, Charles Thomas, was superintendent of the Sutro tunnel), including: mining equipment, miners, locomotive cars, interior views of the mine shaft, buildings and mules. Some of the images are of Camp Merritt, at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, where California volunteers assembled in May-June 1898 for transport to the Philippines during the Spanish American War. Thomas, a member of Company K of the United States Cavalry Volunteers, is depicted as well as other soldiers, including members of the 51st Iowa Volunteers.
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Shorb family photograph album (1895-1896)
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A disbound photograph album (27 x 34 cm) with leather covers and 38 pages of photographs dating from 1895-1896 of the Shorb ranch, family members, Lake Vineyard, Catalina Island, camping and hunting, horses, picnics and Shorb family friends including the Rice family, Richard I. Howitt, J. H. Gilmour, E.M. Tiernan, Ike Cooper, Victor Ward, Ida Banning, and members of the Patton family. There are also some views of agricultural workers, Chinese peddlers, and Chinese workers and African American workers and children at Shorb Ranch. The images have handwritten captions. Also in box is a large, mounted photograph of interior, Reception Room, San Marino Ranch (Item 254).
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Strelitzia, Bird of Paradise, unmounted photographic postcard
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The collection consists of 61 gelatin silver prints made from x-ray negatives produced by Dr. Dain Loren Tasker. The collection also includes one hand-formed copper wire cursive signature label for x-rays and a hand-hammered copper and wood photograph album cover. A small number of the prints are labeled and signed by the artist. The prints depict x-ray images of a variety of flowers and plants as well as one snail. The prints range in size from 9 x 12.5 cm to 32 x 40 cm.
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