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Collection of miscellaneous Northern California photographs and portraits
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Photographs of early western life and California
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The photographs consist of eight early western scenes capturing various unidentified locations of a beach, a coastal cliff, a farmhouse, and a town. Two photographs are labled as Bolder Point mine, both images depict male miners hauling ore with a windlass. Also included is an image of Fort Pemaquid (Maine) on a black-and-white postcard. A majority of the photographs have either "Hardy 1945" or "Blanchard 1945" handwritten on the images indicating that they may have been transferred from these collections.
photPF 3592-3599
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Texas and Utah views
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The albumen photographs consist of three Stereoscopic Views depicting the Alamo, Espada Mission, and Mission San Jose in San Antonio, Texas photographed by F. Hardesty. The cabinet cards capture Ensign Peak, Garfield Landing, and the "Saltair Pavilion" in Salt Lake, Utah; one of the photograph cards is attributed to C.R. Savage. The final photograph is of an unidentified army post. Handwritten notes cite "Hardy, 1945" which may refer to the original Grahame Hardy collection acquired in 1945.
photPF 3480-3489
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Photographs of California Missions collection
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The collection of mounted albumen California Mission views include seventy various interior and exterior images of the Royal Presidio Chapel of San Carlos de Barromeo de Monterey, Mission Santa Barbara, Mission San Carlos de Barromeo de Carmelo, Mission San Diego de Alcalá, San Fernando Rey de España, San Gabriel Arcángel, Mission San Juan Bautista, Mission San Juan Capistrano, Mission San Luis Rey, Mission San Miguel Arcángel, Mission San Antonio Padua, and the Mission San Antonio de Pala. The majority of the collection's annotations note "Hardy, 1945" which may refer to the Grahame Hardy collection acquired in 1945. Several images credit Waite as the photographer.
photPF 3330-3401
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Battleship USS Oregon and "Old Abe," the war eagle
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The two photographs depicting the Battleship USS Oregon are dated 1895, one is a bow view cyanotype and the second depicts a side view that has been retouched for a newspaper cut. Each image is mounted on cardstock and handwritten notes cite "Hardy, 1945" which may refer to the original Grahame Hardy collection acquired in 1945. The third image is an albumen trading card depicting "Old Abe," a captured eagle adopted by Captain Perkins of the Eau Clair Eagles (Co. C), 8th Wisconsin Volunteers, the bird traveled with the regiment during the Civil War between the years 1861-1864. This item's note references "Blanchard 1945."
photPF 3460-3462
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Bay Area and Southern California views
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The photographs consist of views within the counties of Los Angeles, Monterey, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Ventura, and San Francisco. Specific locations along the coast capture images of Angel Island, Coronado Beach, Lake Tahoe, Monterey Bay, Point Loma, Port Harford (Port San Luis), San Francisco Bay, and Sausalito Bay. Also included are images of what appear to be an early Chinese community of fisherman mending fishing nets and drying squid along the coast of Monterey Bay, San Francisco's Warner's CobWeb Palace, Don Antonio de Coronel's rancho, Gaviota Pass, and the Stanford University Gates in Palo Alto. Several images are credited to I.N. Cook, the Rhea Bros., E.W. Turner, R.J. Waters, and W.H.J & Co. The majority of the images are albumen but also include gelatin silver prints and carte de visite photographs. Handwritten notes cite "Hardy, 1945" which may refer to the original Grahame Hardy collection acquired in 1945.
photPF 3402-3459
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Photograph of Bodie, California
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Consists one of mounted photograph taken by Grahame Hardy of Carson City, Nevada of Bodie, California in 1888.
photPF 800-809