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Luray Caverns stereoscopic photographs
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Smithsonian Institution and New England stereoscopic views
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The photographs attributed to the Smithsonian Institute depict images from President Garfield's Inaguaration and various collection items; a coral reef specimen, Joseph Henry (1797-1878) studio and bedroom, and a Syrian sarcophagus (published and photographed by Bell & Bro.). Other stereoscopic cards include views of Florida, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, a three-story stone building in New England, and the Wisconsin meteorite. Handwritten annotations "Rhees 1945" may refer to the William Jones Rhees papers (mssRH).
photPF 3490-3512
Wishing Well - Sacred Seven Star Cavern
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Image of the Seven Star Sacred Caverns and wishing well and pool, Forbidden Palace in background. Printed in the lower corner of the card: Wishing Well - Sacred Seven Star Cavern / Built by / Professor Henry K. Liu / Chinatown on Broadway / Los Angeles.
mssHong family papers addenda (1)
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Smithsonian excursion to Potomac River shell middens
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The eight stereoscopic photographs capture the Potomac river, various watercrafts and men approaching the shoreline, and the nearby shell middens referred to in the annotations as shell-heaps. The photographs may have been transferred from the William Jones Rhees papers.
photPF 3570-3577
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Stereographic photographs of the moon and two observatories
Manuscripts
A group of 12 stereoscopic photographs of the moon, and two stereoscopic photographs of observatories. The stereographs are on card mounts containing two images, which, when viewed through a stereoscope, produce a 3D image. The stereographs were produced by various photographers and publishers, including: "Anthony's Stereoscopic Views," made by E. & H. T. Anthony and Co.; John P. Soule; Joseph Ward; C. Bierstadt (from negatives taken by Prof. H. Draper); Bierstadt Bros. (from negatives by L. M. Rutherford. Taken 1864.); Joseph L. Bates; and H. C. Smith. There is an image of an observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and another showing two men with telescopes outside an observatory in Northfield, Minnesota.
mssHM 84497
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Collection of miscellaneous Northern California photographs and portraits
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The collection of images include a botanical specimen photograph card (sarcodes sanguniea torrey or snow plant of the Sierra), a U.S. Army encampment scene (Sacramento), portraits, and buildings. Among the photographs are roof tops (San Jose), the Santa Barbara Mission capturing priests in the corridor, Auburn Poultry Producer (store facade), William Chapman Ralston (1826-1875) San Francisco Banker, Miss Adams (Mormon actress), Mary Anderson's farm (Oakland), and a postcard photograph of First Bank in Northern California at Coloma. The Auburn Poultry photograph is noted as being a gift of Collis Halladay (1893) and a majority of the photographs cite "Hardy, 1945" which may refer to the original Grahame Hardy collection acquired in 1945.
photPF 3520-3549
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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