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Russell-Strong family recreational photographs

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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1892.
Call number: photPF 26055
Provenance: Gift of Sally Keller, April 2022.
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Collection of Russell-Strong family photographs

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A collection of 35 photographs and postcards of the family of Harriet Williams Russell Strong and her husband, Charles Lyman Strong. The collection contains photographs of family members including Harriet Strong, her daughters, a carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Strong's brother, Civil War General George Crockett Strong, and two photographs of his gravestone monument in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. Some of the photographs of the Strongs were taken on the grounds of Ranchito Del Fuerte, the family ranch in Whittier, California, and there are also photographs and printed drawings of pampas grass, which they grew on the ranch. A studio portrait of Harriet Strong and her four daughters is reprinted in a newspaper clipping in the collection. Also includes cabinet card portraits of Civil War General Benjamin H. Grierson and his son First Lieutenant Charles H. Grierson. The studio portraits include imprints of E. & H.T. Anthony from a negative of Brady's National Portrait Gallery; N. H. Reed; Fitz W. Guerin; George Steckel; and Steckel Fults Studio. There is an ink drawing of a Ranchito del Fuerte window and bookshelf dated 1895 and signed "C.A. Meeks."

photCL 155

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Panoramic photograph of Redlands, California and other photographs

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Five cabinet cards forming one panoramic view of Redlands, showing houses, mountains, and agriculture, approximately 1880s. Other photographs in this folder: a group of tennis players posed on a grass court in Piedmont, California (1890?); a masted ship at Coronado (1893); photograph of an engraving of the Baldwin Hotel, San Francisco; ruins of an Arizona mission (1895).

photPF 2140-2149

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Various photographic views of California

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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.

photPF 260-269

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Ojai Valley area photographs

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Amateur photographs pasted on disbound album pages taken by Mary Gally depicting the buildings and landscape of the Ojai Valley, California. Photographs show the area surrounding the Oak Glen Cottages (or Gally Cottages), an early tourist resort run by Gally and her husband, including a photograph of a woman playing golf in the area's first golf course. Also included is a photograph of Gin Quin Soo, the Gallys' Chinese assistant and cook, and a single-page handwritten letter written by Soo to the Gallys during his trip to China in 1893 or 1894. Additional photographs include the Gally stagecoach in 1887; a view of the bay at Santa Barbara in 1889; and a view of the Santa Barbara Mission in the same year.

photPF 20127-20135

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Photographs of Shasta County recreation, Fellows house, and other views of Northern California

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A series of five cabinet card photographs by W. A. Herrick of a woman and man fishing in the McCloud River; women in a camping tent; and people playing croquet at Fellows' House near Mt. Shasta. Other photographs: Independence Day parade in a small town; overview of the city of San Jose; Lake Tahoe from Mt. Tallac; photograph of a Mission Dolores lithograph.

photPF 2820-2829

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[Parker family photographs]

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One view of a group of people that includes Ann Parker Carawan, Annie Parker, and Maynard L. Parker; views of the Parker family playing in the snow on Mount Wilson; views of the Mount Wilson observatories; and assorted snapshots of family members.

photCL MLP 4127

Russell-Strong family recreational photographs

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