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Collection of Panoramic Photographs

Description

The Huntington Library's Collection of Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1995, contains 117 panoramas that depict a wide variety of subjects and provide an important resource for the visual history of the United States, with a particular emphasis on California and the American West. Subjects include landscapes, group portraits, and miscellaneous views. The landscapes include views of Los Angeles and vicinity (including central Los Angeles, Hollywood, East Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Mount Lowe); views of San Francisco (including balloon views of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire created by the George R. Lawrence Company); miscellaneous landscapes (including Yosemite Falls; Tehachapi Loop; Los Gatos, California; Camp Bowie, Texas; Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains; Furnace Creek in Death Valley; Hoover Dam; Thermopolis, Wyoming; and unidentified views); views of industry (including the Newport News shipyard and the Venice-Del Rey oil fields); desert and mining towns (including Virginia City, Nevada; Bisbee, Arizona; and Ouray, Colorado); the Panama Canal; and Norris Dam (Tennessee). The group portraits include clubs; employees; school children; professional organizations; military personnel; pageant and play participants (including two portraits of casts of the Mission Play); birthday parties; and miscellaneous groups. The miscellaneous views include views of the Ascot Park Racetrack in Gardena, California; a revival held by Aimee Semple McPherson in Balboa Park (San Diego); opening ceremonies of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics; and the raising of the U.S.S. Battleship Maine in Havana Harbor.

The collection also contains photographs by some of the better known photographers and photographic firms of the first part of the twentieth century. Photographers and publishers represented in the collection include Charles Z. Bailey; Bailey and Ramsey; Bryant Studio; Bunnell Photo Shop; California Panorama Company; Bell Clements; Fay Foto Service; R.J. Gallagher; George. R. Lawrence Company; J.D. Givens; Gordon Panoramic Photo Company; Griffith Photo; Harris Photographic Company; Karen Halverson; George W. Hazard; L. M. Hermance; Hiller; Hughes Photos; B. Isensee; William Henry Jackson; I.L. Maduro; Mayhart Studio; C.R. Nock; Panorama Publishing Company; Pettit's Studio; Photo News Service; C.C. Pierce; A.C. Pillsbury; Pillsbury Picture Company; Prince Photo; G.H. Rice; H.H. Rideout; Sanford and Black Photo News Service; Thompson; O.A. Tunnell; H.A. Varble; Miles F. Weaver; and West Coast Art Company.

Titles in brackets are supplied; otherwise all titles come from the photographs themselves.

Type
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Date
approximately 1851-2014; bulk 1920s-1930s
Call number
photPAN
Provenance
Acquired from James B. Barnes, August 1, 1947.
Acquired from Mark A. Chapman, November 11, 1949.
Acquired from Collector's Council, January 2003.
Acquired from Dawson's Book Shop, April 6, 1979.
Acquired from Dawson's Book Shop, September 10, 1979.
Acquired from Ben Field, March 9, 1956.
Acquired from Mrs. Grace M. Grafton, 1996.
Acquired from Barbara Greer, January 1987.
Acquired from Hardy, 1946.
Acquired from Jack Kemble, July 1987.
Acquired from Robert Tyler Lee. ca. 2002.
Acquired from Michael Harrison McCandless, July 13, 1946.
Acquired from McLaughlin, May 5, 1956.
Acquired from James B. McNair, May 7, 1974.
Acquired from H.E. Roberts. September 5, 1991.
Acquired from Herman Smith, September 13, 2001.
Acquired from Paul Taylor, October 1992.
Acquired from Marifrances Trivelli, 1947.
Acquired from Julia A. Vinock, October 2015.
Acquired from White, January 2009.
Gift of Mary and Weston Naef, April 2012.
Gift of Charles W. Staufenberg, June 2013.
Gift of Darryl Curran, 1996.
Purchased from Dawson's Book Shop, August 2019.
Gift of Mrs. Helen Rice,
Purchased from Michael Kolster,
Associated people
Bailey, Chas. Z. (1941-)
Clements, Bell. (1843-1942.)
Gallagher, R. J., (1861-1946.)
Givens, J. D.
Halverson, Karen,
Hazard, George W.
Hermance, L. M.
Kolster, Michael,
Jackson, William Henry,
Maduro, I. L.
Nock, C. R.
Pierce, C. C.
Pillsbury, Arthur C.
Rice, G. H.
Tunnell, O. A.
Varble, H. A.
Weaver, M. F.
Associated organizations
Bailey and Ramsey.
Bryant Studio.
Bunnell Photo Shop.
California Panorama Company.
Fay Foto Service (Boston, Mass.)
Geo. R. Lawrence Co.
Gordon Panoramic Photo Co.
Griffith Phot.
H.H. Rideout (Firm : Washington, D.C.)
Harris Photographic Company.
Hughes Photos.
Keystone Photo Service,
Mayhart Studio.
Panorama Publishing Co.
Pettit's Studio.
Photo News Service.
Prince Photo.
Sanford and Black Photo News Service.
West Coast Art Co.
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