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Photograph album of Mission Revival-style estate of William S. Tevis

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Description: A disbound presentation album containing 25 black-and-white prints of the estate and extensive grounds owned by William S. Tevis in Bakersfield, California, circa 1910s. Includes views of gardens with many mature plants and trees, an arbor, a pond, a bamboo grove, and the exterior of the two-story residence, designed by architect Henry A. Schulze, with a courtyard with a two-story archway. Item 12 includes a woman and a young man in a World War I military-style uniform at far right of image. The photographer and compiler are unidentified.
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Production date: approximately 1910s.
Call number: photCL 479
Provenance: Gift of Sam Watters, May 2007.
Dimensions: images 21 x 16 cm, album pages 28 x 43 cm

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This photograph album is made up of early 20th century photographs of eight California missions, in both ruined and repaired states. The missions that are depicted in the album are San Luis Rey, Santa Ines, San Fernando Rey, San Miguel, San Francisco Dolores, San Luis Obispo, San Gabriel, San Juan Capistrano, and San Carlos Borromeo. Other photographs also show San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, the Church of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels (also known as Plaza Church), and the Royal Presidio Chapel. Two photographs depict people alongside the missions: photograph (8) shows people going into the Mission San Francisco de Asís and photograph (15) shows two Native American children at Mission San Fernando Rey. One photograph of particular interest is that of a group of Native American school children with three Catholic nuns, who presumably may be their teachers. They are standing in front of an unidentified church building. Some of the photographs are faded or are peeling off the album pages and are bent. Charles Ironmonger is the only photographer that has been identified as a contributor to this album; no other photographers have not been identified, and the compiler of this album is unknown.

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A photographic album with 59 images showing the places where Abraham Lincoln lived in Illinois and Kentucky. The towns and cities featured include Elizabethtown, Kentucky; Hodgensville, Kentucky; Lincoln City, Indiana; Petersburg, Illinois; Springfield, Illinois; and Chicago, Illinois. Most of the photographs show the exteriors of buildings, with a few interior views, particularly of Lincoln's house in Springfield, Illinois. A manuscript letter from compiler Albert C. Grier to Milwaukee Lincolniana collector John E. Burton, attached to the rear pastedown, explains how the album was assembled.

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Family photograph album with many portraits of women, (bulk 1902-1910)

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A disbound album with suede covers containing several studio portraits of women and some snapshots of children and family groups, mostly unidentified. The majority of photographs date from the early 1900s, with a few photographs at the back dating to the 1940s or 1950s (two are dated 1954). The unidentified compiler of the album most likely attended Girls' High School, San Francisco, as there are two portraits of women with captions: "Alice Marchebout, Latin teacher, G.H.S. 1902" and one unnamed female "Greek teacher. G.H.S." (Marchebout is listed as a teacher at Girls' High School in the 1900 San Francisco City Directory.) There are two portraits by professional photographers based in San Francisco: William E. Dassonville and George F. Kelly.

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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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View of courtyard at Milflores, Spanish-style home of Harrison Gray Otis

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Black and white photograph of the exterior detail of the courtyard at Milflores, Harrison Gray Otis' Spanish-style home in the San Fernando Valley. Porch separated from grounds by archways, three are visible to left of photo. First archway on left leads to walkway, with two steps. Other two archways each has gate on its lower third portion. Patch of grass and flowers visible near center of photo. Two steps leading to a door to right of photo. Shrubs in bottom left corner of photo. Second story of house with two windows visible on top left portion of photo, with part of roof shingles and railing in top center and top right of photo. "Kopec LA, #1" written in lower right corner of photo.

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Photograph album of Mission Revival-style estate of William S. Tevis

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