Visual Materials

Arizona; Arkansas; Southern California

Description: There are only three photographs from Arizona and three from Arkansas. There are over 150 portraits from Southern California, including Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Pasadena, and a few others.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1860-1910.
Call number: photCL 581
Creator: Mautz, Carl(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased for the Huntington from Carl Mautz by the Library Collectors' Council, January 2016.
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Alaska; Arizona; Arkansas; Southern California

Visual Materials

There are few photographs from Alaska (1), Arizona (3) and Arkansas (11). One Arkansas portrait depicts a little boy with a rifle. Southern California photographs include portraits from Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and other locations. There is a portrait of an African American woman and her baby, with a name written on the back, possibly Mrs. H. G. Hodge. In addition, there are several portraits of Italian American families that have names and writing in Italian on the backs (San Luis Obispo).

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Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California

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California locations are Anacapa Island, Arrowhead Springs, Beverly Hills, Coronado, Del Mar, Hollywood, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Mojave Desert, Monterey, Mount Lowe, Pasadena, Riverside, San Diego, San Gabriel Mission Play, Santa Barbara, Santa Catalina Island, South Pasadena, Venice, Ventura County, and Yosemite.

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Northern California, small towns and cities

Visual Materials

Contains portraits from Petaluma, Gilroy, Brooklyn, Hollister, Salinas City, Santa Cruz, Watsonville, Redwood City, Santa Clara, Suisun, Livermore, Davisville, Lakeport, Dixon, Woodland, Vallejo, Pacheco, Santa Rosa, San Rafael, Napa City, St. Helena, Healdsburg.

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California: Central Valley and Central Coast

Visual Materials

Includes portraits from Modesto, Sonora, Stockton, San Luis Obispo, Santa Maria, Lompoc, Paso Robles, and various other towns.

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California: San Francisco; Oakland; San Jose

Visual Materials

There are four self-portraits of photographer James A. Clayton, who operated a gallery in San Jose from 1856 to 1870.

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California: Grass Valley; Nevada City

Visual Materials

Collector Carl Mautz acquired some photographs from the William S. May family album in Grass Valley, California around 1990. There are portraits of a young white couple, May and his wife Anna (Conaway) May, and four African Americans - a man, Boz Harrison; a woman, Hannah Harrison; and two girls, Minnie and Fannie Harrison. Anna's father, Carville Conaway, arrived in California from Baltimore in 1851, settling in Grass Valley with his family, who arrived later. The 1850 U.S. Federal Census shows that Carville Conaway had three enslaved people in his household in Baltimore. It is unclear if these are the same people. The tintype of Minnie Harrison has an imprint indicating it was taken in Baltimore. Research information regarding these photographs is in the collection information file. Please see Reader Services for more information. This binder also contains a street view of the Nevada City Courthouse; a group portrait of four men and two horses in Nevada City; and two men in military uniforms.

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