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Glass plate negatives of Yosemite Valley scenery

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Description: Photographs of Yosemite Valley taken approximately 1900 by an unidentified photographer. The 78 glass plate negatives all depict scenery and contain no people. Contact prints of all the negatives were made by the Huntington Library in the 1990s; see Box 1.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1900.
Call number: photCL 497
Provenance: Gift of Mr. H. P. Webb, March 1960.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Glass negatives

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Glass plate negatives (5 x 7 inch) for the following photographs: 292-304; 315-323; 325-331; 333, 334, 336. Contact prints were made from these negatives (see Box 4), and have the corresponding numbers.

photCL 39

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Glass negatives

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Glass plate negatives for the following photographs: 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 346.1, 347, 387, 525. Contact prints were made from these negatives (see Boxes 1-4) and have the corresponding numbers.

photCL 39

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Glass negatives

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Glass plate negatives (5 x 7 inch) for the following photographs: 83, 102, 105.1, 106, 118.1, 120, 136, 151, 182, 266-291. Contact prints were made from these negatives (see Boxes 1-4) and have the corresponding numbers.

photCL 39

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Glass plate negatives and lantern slides

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Contains 15 glass plate negatives and 30 lantern slides, some of which are duplicates. Thirteen slides (27-39) do not have corresponding copy prints. They are primarily views of Native Americans on horses (possibly scouts) and desert scenery.

photCL 623

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Glass negatives

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Photographs made by Adam Clark Vroman, ca. 1892-1909, spanning various subjects, primarily his bookstore in Pasadena, California, and scenes from his travels. Of particular significance is Vroman's handwritten journal of a trip to see the Snake Dance at Walpi, Arizona, in 1895, written sequentially on the back of 19 mounted photographs. Vroman's traveling companions were Horatio N. Rust, Mrs. Thaddeus (Leontine) Lowe, and Charles J. Crandall, who are shown, along with Vroman, at pueblos, and traveling with supplies and wagons. There are also views of the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest. The California images include scenery and travelers in the San Gabriel Mountains, Mount Wilson, Mount Lowe and the Alpine Tavern, and travelers having a picnic; details of missions; historic adobes of Monterey; Rancho Guajome Adobe in San Diego County; Yosemite and one view of Indians living in Yosemite Valley. Locations depicted in other parts of the United States are: Manitou, Colorado; Oregon, Illinois; Niagara Falls; Grant's Tomb; a bird's-eye-view of Santa Fe, New Mexico; and other miscellaneous views. Vroman travelled to Japan in 1903 and 1909, and eight prints in the collection show Japanese men and women in traditional dress, as well as details of architecture. Vroman appears in a few photographs. There are several portraits of Pueblo Indian men, some identified in Vroman's captions.

photCL 86

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