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Photographs of Fort Ross structures and Carpinteria petroleum mine

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Description: Photographs of Fort Ross, California church, hotel and Russian blockhouse in 1903, and in 1906 after damage from earthquake. Also photographs of men in the mine of the California Petroleum and Asphalt Company, Carpinteria, California.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1900s.
Call number: photPF 1023-1033
Provenance: Acquired from Crank, 1937.; Acquired from Farrand, 1942.
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.

Photographs of California Petroleum and Asphalt Company plant, Carpinteria

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Miscellaneous photographs of California and other places

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Consists of six items including photographs, cyanotypes, one postcard, and one packet of 12 small prints. photPF 740 is a photograph of the El Molino Viejo; photPF 741 is a photograph of Lake Memphremagog, Vermont; photPF 742 is a postcard of the birthplace of Nathan Hale; photPF 747 is a packet containing 12 small views of the damage caused by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake; photPF 748-749 are two still-life cyanotypes taken at the laboratory of asphalt paving plant at Carpenteria, depicting a skull with a hat (labeled "the prof") and a pair of old miner shoes.

photPF 740-749

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Photographs of earthquake damage at Stanford University

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A group of 24 snapshots and photographic postcards of damage at Stanford University from the 1906 earthquake. Includes views inside college rooms and exterior buildings.

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Fort Ross Landing

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One of a series of 35 charts of small California harbors. The maps are hand tinted and include notes on the harbor conditions for ships. From the library of John Haskell Kemble. "Presented to U. S. Coast Survey with compliments of New Zealand Insurance Company ... San Francisco, Jan. 23, 1886." "E. A. Dakin, Electric Pen Printer, 320 Sansome St." Previously identified as 479297o. Coordinates based on the location of Fort Ross Cove (USGS ID 223704).

479297:15

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Photographs of Fort Churchill and Bowers Mansion in Nevada

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Three photographs of the ruins of Fort Churchill, Nevada, a U.S. Army fort built in 1860, and one photograph of Bowers Mansion, Nevada, a grand house built in 1863 by Alison "Eilley" Orrum Bowers and her husband Lemuel Bowers. The prints are 4 x 5 inches and there are four corresponding film negatives, which are housed separately. The photographer is unidentified.

photPF 26010

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Photographs of San Francisco and Azusa

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Consists of twelve photographs, including one cyanotype print. photPF 340-344 are photographs of works by Maurice Sterne and Diego Rivera in the Albert M. Bender Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Art. photPF 345-345 depict the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. photPF 347 consists of three photographs depicting the effect of the 1868 San Francisco Earthquake by Eadweard Muybridge. photPF 348 is a cabinet card depicting California Street from Sansome Street in San Francisco, approximately 1880s by Taber. photPF 349 is a cyanotype of the H. Canoll & Co. dry good store, possibly in Asuza.

photPF 340-349

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