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Santa Clara County and San Francisco views

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Description: Contents: San Jose (Santa Clara County) general view; Dr. J. Adams residence (San Jose); Mr. Tompkin residence (San Jose), Georgia Street (Vallejo); Dry Dock and Cantilever Crane, Mare Island Navy Yard (Vallejo); Masonic Temple and Post Street (San Francisco) cabinet card; Presidio Reservation East Cantonment (San Francsico); Parapet, Sutro Heights (San Francisco). Annotations on the photographs note "Hardy 1945." The San Francisco cabinet card of the Masonic Temple has an annotation "Lockley 1945."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1880s-1890s.
Call number: photPF 3810-3819
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

O. V. Lange's Views of San Francisco and other photographs

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Seven cabinet card photographs of buildings and streets in San Francisco, including the Chinese Joss House and St. Lewis Alley, Chinatown. Also two photographs of Hotel Brockway, Lake Tahoe; one cabinet card of a wooden Catholic church and bungalow with priest standing in front, El Rio, California.

photPF 630-639

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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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Cliff House (San Francisco, California) photographs

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Contents: Cliff House & Seal Rock, S.F. cabinet photograph (published by A.J. McDonald) annotation on verso,"(was there in 1893)" [Olive Percival handwriting]; "San Francisco 1st Cliff House and Seal Rocks" (Hardy 1945); "The Second Cliff House, after 1893" on verso, "C.J. Colley-architect";"San Francisco 2nd Cliff House from the land, after 1893" (Hardy 1945); San Francisco (reproduction of chromolithograph) original credit to Frank Marryat (1826-1855) published in London later titled "Eager Gold Hunters Arriving in the City Early in 1851."

photPF 3883-3887

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Henry E. Huntington residence in San Francisco

Manuscripts

A street view of Mr. Huntington's residence in San Francisco. MS note on envelope reads "Henry Edwards Huntington residence at 2840 Jackson Street, San Francisco. (Formerly residence of Herman Heyneman) 10 photographs."

mssHEH 61/5/2 (2)

Masonic Temple, : erected in the years 1860 & 1861, by the Masonic Hall Association of the city of San Francisco, N.W. Corner of Montgomery & Post Streets

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Image of an eye-level street view of the three-story, Gothic-style Masonic Temple in San Francisco, California, with clock tower, statues, and ornate architectural details; pedestrians and people on horseback in the street.

priJLC_ORG_001199

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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

Santa Clara County and San Francisco views

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