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Various photographic views of California

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Description: Consists of ten print photographs and cyanotype prints taken in California. Subjects are mostly related to agriculture, horticulture, and hunting in California. This includes calla lily fields, pampas fields, the California coastline, trout caught near Carpenteria, and rabbit hunting.
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Production date: approximately 1890s-1943.
Call number: photPF 260-269
Provenance: Acquired from Crank and Prinz, 1936 and 1943.
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Photographic views of California

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Consists of 33 copy prints with some duplicates. The back of each photograph has a title and a number to a corresponding lantern slide. photPF 190-193 are photographs of prospecting in California, depicting Yreka, Chinese prospectors, and a prospecting party, and appear to be copies of photographs by Eadweard Muybridge. photPF 194-196 photos are views of Ellwood Cooper's Ranch in Santa Barbara County. photPF 197-199 depict scenes of workers and lodgings in Yosemite Valley as well as the studio of artist Albert Bierstadt. photPF 200 depicts the construction of the Bear River Crossing C.P.R.R. photPF 201 depicts trout fishing in Sonoma County. photPF 202-209 focuses on early Los Angeles County, with snapshots of ranches, orchards, vineyards, Los Angeles High School, and the homes of Maria Sepulveda, F. D. Bacon, and F. P. F. Temple. photPF 210-217 depict various locations in early San Francisco, including Telegraph Hill, Alcatraz Island, Goat Island, Woodward's Gardens, and the Mercantile Library. photPF 218-219 feature the Keystone quartz mill and the first quartz mill in Amador City.

photPF 190-219

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Photographs of San Pedro, California

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Consists of ten photographs of San Pedro, California. Subjects includes the coastline, the San Pedro breakwater, the cutter Collis, Point Fermin Elementary School, Cabillo Beach, Cabrillo Beach Boathouse (demolished in the 1970s), Los Angeles Harbor Light (Angels Gate Lighthouse), and Fish Harbor at Terminal Island. Companies shown on Wharf Street include Seacoast Packing Corporation and Van Camp Seafood Company.

photPF 2120-2129

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Russell-Strong family recreational photographs

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These three photographs show Mary, Georgina, Harriet, and Nelle de Luce engaging in recreational activities at their ranch, Ranchito del Fuente, in Whittier, California. The cabinet cards depict the daughters playing tennis and an additional photograph of Nelle playing golf. Pampas grass can be seen in the background. There are also brief hand-written captions on the verso.

photPF 26055

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Photographs of a Northern California rabbit drive, haying, and Yosemite stage coach

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Copy prints of early 20th century photographs of scenes, presumably in Northern California, consisting of three images of a rabbit drive including one of with men, women, and children, gathered around hundreds of dead rabbits (photPF 20016-20018); one photograph showing haying operations (photPF 20019), and one image of an open horse-drawn stage with passengers in the Yosemite Valley, with the wagon labeled "Yosemite Transportation Co." (photPF 20020). The photographer is unidentified.

photPF 20016-20020

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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

Aerial view of the California Incline, Santa Monica, California

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Aerial view of the coastline in Santa Monica, California, showing the California Incline road running through the bluffs, with beach houses along the coast and Palisades Park and buildings above.

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Various photographic views of California

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