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    Dain L. Tasker photograph collection

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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. Many of the plant identifications were made by Joseph Bellows Gallery or The Huntington Botanical Department. 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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    Album B

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    This album contains 428 photographs taken primarily between 1905 and 1908 in British Columbia, California, and Washington, with many views of baskets and basket collections, as well as some views of Grace Nicholson's shop at 46 N. Los Robles in Pasadena. Most photographs were taken by Nicholson and Carroll S. Hartman, though there are some by commercial photographers W.T. Fitch, Benjamin A. Gifford, J.A. Haran, Frank La Roche, and S. G. Morse, as well as unidentified photographers. Some of the commercial photographs date before 1905. Tribes represented: Dwamish [i.e. Duwamish]; Kaskimo; Makah; Mojave [i.e. Mohave]; Nootka; Paiute; Pomo; Quinault; Wasco.

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    Travel album of San Diego and vicinity

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    Travel album of snapshots of people and sights in San Diego, U.S. and Mexico border area, and other locations, possibly along a railroad trip. 46 photographs, 2 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches each. The compiler/photographer is unidentified. Views include: young men in uniforms camping; San Diego County Courthouse; Los Banos bathhouse; Hotel del Coronado; Coronado Beach and Boat House; trains; U.S. and Mexico border monument; customs building; a dam; an ostrich farm.

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    Album C

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    This album contains 623 photographs taken in 1911 and 1912 in Arizona, California, and New Mexico. Notably, the album includes a photograph of Hopi potter Nampeyo. All of the photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson and Carroll S. Hartman. Tribes represented : Hopi; Hupa; Karok; Maidu; Miwok; Mojave [i.e. Mohave]; Paiute; Pueblo Indians of Santo Domingo, Isleta, San Juan, Laguna, Acoma; Shasta; Yokuts; Yurok.

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    Additional prints

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    This series includes a hand-formed copper wire cursive signature label for x-rays, 15 mounted gelatin silver prints, and one photographic postcard. All prints in this series are mounted and signed or inscribed unless otherwise indicated.

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    Matted photographs from album

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    Image numbers: 45-46 (double-sided board with two photographs); 50, 51.

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