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Various photographic views of California
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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 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
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Photographs of the Southern California coast and Japanese commission to study American education
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Consists of fifteen photographs and cyanotype prints. photPF 360-363 are cyanotype prints of the Ojai Valley, Carpenteria, and other areas along the California coast. photPF 364-368 are carte de visite of various members of the first Japanese Commission to Study American Education and Commerce (possibly referring to the Iwakura Mission of 1871-1873). Named members include M. Yura, Iwao, Okubo, Hitotsbashi (Tokugawa Yoshinobu), and Sanjio. Photographers and studios include Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, Selleck & Fisher, Curtis Taylor, Edouarts J. Cobb, Kramer, and Rockwood & Co. photPF 369 is a group portrait of Mrs. Charles De Long, the wife of the U.S. minister to Japan (1869-1873) and a group of unidentified titled Japanese ladies.
photPF 360-369
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Various photographs of southern California
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Consists of six photographs taken of a one story frame house in Santa Barbara, an unnamed lake (as an advertisement for the Hemet Land & Water Company for fruit lands and lots), Mission San Gabriel, John Muir, a view of Pasadena, the San Gabriel Valley, and the Mount Lowe Observatory from Mount Lowe, and an unidentified pioneer with his burro and dog. Identified photographers include L. N. Cook, C. B. Waite, and E. S. Frost & Son.
photPF 1460-1479
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Photographic views of the Inland Empire and Last Chance in California
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Consists of six photographs, all mounted. Locations depicted include the Eldorado Mine in Last Chance, California, a mountain peak attributed to the San Bernardino Mountains, and various sites in Riverside including Indiana Avenue and an unidentified ranch.
photPF 920-929