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  Card Photographs (142-170)

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  The 29 card photographs, primarily cabinet and boudoir cards and cartes-de-visite, in this series are arranged in three folders in 1 box: Muzzall Family: portraits and group gatherings (Items 142-151) Portrait of Edwin Hayward; Pierce Family portrait; unidentified people and gatherings (Items 152-159) Unidentified portraits; miscellaneous Santa Barbara Photographers (Items 160-170) Among the photographs by additional photographs there is 1 post-mortem card photograph of a baby by Reed (Item 163); a view of the Mission San Luis Rey by Rea (Item 170); and various portraits by Arnold (Item 167); Edwards (Items 164-166); Elliot (Item 159); Judd (Item 168); Reed (Item 145); Stringfield (Item 169); and Westervelt (Item 158).

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  Hayward & Muzzall Photograph Collection

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  This collection contains 170 photographs related to early California photographers E. J. Hayward and Henry Muzzall and consists chiefly of stereograph views of the Santa Barbara, California, region by Hayward and Muzzall, dating from the early 1870s to the mid 1880s, as well as additional family photographs dating from 1862 to 1894. Within the collection, there are 144 stereograph views: 51 by Hayward; 87 by Hayward & Muzzall; and 6 by additional photographers. The stereos primarily contain views of Santa Barbara streets and buildings, trees and gardens, and landmarks, including depictions of the Santa Barbara Mission, State Street, Hot Springs Canyon, and Chinese residents. The stereos include more than 80 from Hayward & Muzzall's set Views of Santa Barbara and Vicinity and a number from Hayward's Stereoscopic Views of Santa Barbara and Vicinity. There are also 29 card photographs in the collection consisting primarily of portraits of family members and friends, with 15 by Hayward and Muzzall, and 13 by other photographers. Additional credited photographers in the collection, typically represented by one to three images, include Fay Hammond; Santa Barbara photographers Richard Arnold; John Ellis Edwards; William J. Rea; Norman H. Reed; William N. Tuttle; and A. M. Stringfield; as well as Los Angeles photographer James D. Westervelt; Stockton, California, photographer O. Elliot; and San Francisco photographer Carleton Watkins.

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  Carleton E. Watkins Stereograph Collection

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  This collection contains 269 stereographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins, dating from the 1860s to about the 1880s, that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California. The collection includes 1 stereograph from the Central Pacific Railroad series; 5 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Railroad Series; 110 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Coast series; and 150 stereographs from Watkins' New Series. The Watkins' Pacific Coast Series, created between 1861 and 1874, primarily depict locales in Northern California with many images of buildings in San Francisco, views of Yosemite and Mariposa County, Missions, and some mining operations including photographs of the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company in Nevada County, California. The Watkins' New Series stereographs, created between 1874 and 1890, consist of images of both Southern California and Northern California, in cities including San Francisco, Pasadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre, and San Gabriel. Among the Southern California residences and properties depicted include the Sunny Slope Ranch of L.J. Rose in San Gabriel, Willow Dale owned by N.C. Carter, and Lake Vineyard owned by B.D. Wilson. Some of the stereographs in Watkins' Pacific Coast Series include titles in the margins in Watkins' own hand (see Nos. 1033, 1135, 1146, 1153, and 1721). Numbered captions with printed titles appear on many of the mounts; unnumbered mounts are numbered consecutively within the series beginning at 1. Item titles chiefly transcribed from printed titles in stereograph margin; cataloger devised titles are enclosed in square brackets.

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  A. A. Hart Stereographs of the Central Pacific Railroad

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  This collection contains 372 stereographic photographs (including some variants and duplicates) by photographer A. A. Hart that document the construction of the western half of first transcontinental railroad by the Central Pacific Railroad between 1864 and 1869. The collection includes all but seven of the original series, numbered from 1 to 364 by Hart (lacking 193, 323, 333, 358, 359, 362, and 364). Hart served as the Central Pacific's first official photographer, and his images chronicle the advancement of the railroad over 742 miles from Newcastle, California (in 1864), through the Sierra Nevada Mountains into Nevada and on to Utah, where he captured the ceremonial meeting of the two railroads at Promontory Point on May 10, 1869. The majority of the photographs are views of mountains, lakes, rivers, and forested areas (some with stumps from clear-cutting in the foreground), often with railroad tracks running through the center of the images. In addition, there are also images of locomotives, Chinese and other workers, equipment, bridges, tunnels, frontier and mining towns, construction camps, as well as some images of Native Americans, including Paiute and Shoshone Indians. The stereographs in the collection include a variety of imprints on the card versos. The stereographs primarily contain Hart's own Sacramento imprint with series titles including: Scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains Scenes in the Valley of the Sacramento Scenes in the Washoe Range Scenes on the Humboldt River Scenes near Great Salt Lake Interspersed in the collection are stereographs published without credit to Hart by Frank Durgan and Carleton E. Watkins. Three cards contain the imprint "Sierra Nevada Mountains, Photographed and Published by Frank Durgan" (numbers 17, 26, and 40), and approximately forty crediting Watkins variously as "C.E. Watkins," "Watkins' Pacific Railroad," and "Watkins' New Series." Item titles transcribed from stereographs.

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  Sunny Slope Ranch, various views (includes photographs by C. E. Watkins)

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  All photographs by Watkins date to 1877 or 1880. Includes a cabinet card photograph of the Sunny Slope Ranch winery and vineyard by photographer E.C. Bichowsky (item 15); two Carleton Watkins stereographs (items 19a and 24a); and unmounted 9.5 x 15.5 cm prints by Watkins corresponding to published Watkins' New Series stereographs: Watkins' New Series #4419 View from Lake Vineyard, B.D. Wilson's, San Gabriel (left side) and #4420 (right side) (Item 17) Watkins' New Series #4432 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 18) Stereograph number unidentified [view of Sunny Slope vineyard] (Item 23) Watkins' New Series #4458 Palm Trees, San Gabriel (Item 20) Watkins' New Series #4433 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 21) Watkins' New Series #4435 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 22) Stereograph number unidentified [View of road leading to Rose residence] (Item 23) Watkins' New Series #4431 At the Residence of L.J. Rose, Esq., Sunny Slope, San Gab'l., Cal. (Item 24) Watkins' New Series #4439 A Bee Ranch, San Gabriel, Cal. (Item 25) Watkins' New Series #4448 Old Adobe, Mission San Gabriel, Cal. (Item 26) Watkins' New Series #4449 [Adobe building] (Item 27) Watkins' New Series #4630 Mission San Gabriel, Estab. Sept. 8th, 1771, Cal. (Item 28) Watkins' New Series #4631 Mission San Gabriel, Estab. Sept. 8th. 1771, Cal. (Item 29)

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  Historical Society of Southern California Collection of Portrait Photographs

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  This collection consists of 809 photographs of individual and group portraits, dating from circa 1850s-1997 (bulk 1860s-1930s), that formed part of the Historical Society of Southern California Photo Archives. It is a reference collection and includes images of both prominent and lesser-known Los Angeles and Southern California figures from both the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection contains images in a variety of formats that were created by a number of well-known California photographers. These include James B. Blanchard, Boyé, Curtis Studios, George N. Dewey, Edouart and Son, Garden City Foto Co., William M. Godfrey, A.C. Golsh, Hayward and Muzzall, Fred Hartsook, Hiller and Mott, Theodore C. Marceau, Francis Parker (as Parker and Co., Parker and Hasselman, and Parker's Photographic Parlors), Payne Stanton and Co., Henri Penelon, Steve A. Rendall, Frank G. Schumacher, William Shew, John Pitcher Spooner, George Steckel, Isaiah West Taber, William Nutting Tuttle (as Tuttle and Lee, and Tuttle and Co.), O.E. Tyler, Davidson Roby Weaver, Michael A. Wesner, James D. Westervelt (also in partnership with Charles J. Coules), and Valentin Wolfenstein. The Griggs portraits depict young women in various settings; the Kathryn Murdoch gift is primarily of album pages with snapshots of local sites in Los Angeles.

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