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Photographs of the Southern California coast and Japanese commission to study American education

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Description: 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.
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Production date: approximately 1870s-1900s.
Call number: photPF 360-369
Provenance: Acquired from various sources, including Crank and A. L. Carr, 1936.
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Photographs of the American frontier and other places

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Consists of 16 photographs, postcards, and negatives. photPF 1220 contains two snapshots of Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo. photPF 1221 consists of six film negatives of fire damage on the P.M.S. Corinto. photPF 1222 depicts the launching of the "Invincible" in 1918. phtoPF 1223, 1223a contains views of Pend d'Oreille Lake in Idaho and the Steamer Mary Moody. photPF 1224 is a snapshop of a group of attachés during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 in Manchuria, Russia. photPF 1225 is a cabinet card of Orlando J. Hodge. photPF 1227-1229 are postcards depicting St. Cloud, Minnesota , a U.S. military hospital at Governor's Island, North Dakota, the Steamship Dampfer Pretoria, and Champion Mines and Murchie Mines in Nevada City.

photPF 1220-1229

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Photographs of central and southern California

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Consists of six photographs. photPF 910, depicting a scene in San Luis Obispo, is a copy print from corresponding lantern slide number 113 in phoCL 352. photPF 911 shows the Arrowhead Hot Springs Hotel against the mountains. photPF 912, 914, 915 show various locations across Pasadena and includes one stereograph. photPF 917 presents a view of San Pedro Harbor.

photPF 910-919

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Photographs of San Francisco and Azusa

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Consists of twelve photographs, including one cyanotype print. photPF 340-344 are photographs of works by Maurice Sterne and Diego Rivera in the Albert M. Bender Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Art. photPF 345-345 depict the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. photPF 347 consists of three photographs depicting the effect of the 1868 San Francisco Earthquake by Eadweard Muybridge. photPF 348 is a cabinet card depicting California Street from Sansome Street in San Francisco, approximately 1880s by Taber. photPF 349 is a cyanotype of the H. Canoll & Co. dry good store, possibly in Asuza.

photPF 340-349

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Photograph album of Japanese American residents of California

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A photograph album dating from the early 1920s reflecting the life of an unidentified Japanese American family based in or near the agricultural community of Brawley, in Imperial County, California. "Brawley Bottling Works" crates are seen in an image of Japanese American farm workers, and other images include the interior of a canned goods store, agricultural workers and crops, farm trucks, and a man with plants in a greenhouse. The album contains snapshots of many different Japanese American men, women, and children, almost always dressed in fine Western clothing, seen in social gatherings in mostly rural settings, with some images of other locations. The album doesn't have any identifications, though recognizable locations in California are: the Sacramento Capitol building; the beach in Venice; a bookstore with a crate marked First Street, Los Angeles; and men posing with automobiles with license plates that say "CAL." Notable images are a group portrait of men clowning around while drinking beer, and ceremonial outdoor gatherings with American and Japanese flags flying. Photographs taken in Japan include a Christian church and school in the Tadanoumi area of Hiroshima Prefecture, and family groups with people wearing both Japanese and Western clothing.

photCL 647

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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 the American Western Frontier and Baltimore

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Consists of nine photographs. photPF 930-931 contain two snapshots of Julia Weber's farmhouse and the site of the original Weber Point Home which was destroyed in a fire in 1917. photPF 932 is a photograph of Bull Run River, Oregon. photPF 933-935 are cyanotypes of a river flat ferry and sod houses located in Dakota (though unclear if one of either state or Dakota Territory). photPF 936-937 are photographs taken at Fort Federal Hill, Baltimore, Maryland. photPF 936 features Captain W. A. Speaight, 1st Lt. W. Seward Jr., and 2nd Lt. S O. Ryder and is taken by W. Suess. photPF 978 is of Virginia City from Carleton Watkins' New Cabinet Series.

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