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Central Valley and Central Coast California photographs

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    California: Central Valley and Central Coast

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    Includes portraits from Modesto, Sonora, Stockton, San Luis Obispo, Santa Maria, Lompoc, Paso Robles, and various other towns.

    photCL 581

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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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    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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    California: Central Valley

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    Contains portraits from Visalia, Tulare County, Fresno County, Modesto, Stockton, Lodi, Merced City, Sacramento, San Jose.

    photCL 581

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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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    Photographs of Southern California Missions

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    Photographs by an unidentified amateur photographer of various southern California Missions including Mission San Fernando, Mission San Juan Capistrano, Mission San Luis Rey, Mission San Gabriel, and Mission San Miguel. There are several unidentified missions, including two views of mission interiors, and one view of a dilapidated olive crusher.

    photPF 20071-20085