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Small farm and windmill (San Jose, California) photograph

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Description: The photographic view captured a white Victorian farmhouse with outbuildings, an orchard, and windmill. The image also shows various homesteads in the distance. The annotations on the verso note photograph numbers, 180 and 12. This photograph may have been transferred by the mss dept. from the Grahame Hardy collection [mssHM 72670-72753].
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Production date: approximately 1890.
Call number: photPF 3882
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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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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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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 Mission San Diego and old Los Angeles portraits

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Consists of six photographs. Three prints are various views of the Mission San Diego El Campanario, church, and gardens by unidentified photographers. photPF 184 had previously accompanied Alice Harriman's "The Bells of El Camino Real" whose call number is mssHM 66767. The three remaining photographs are one copy print of the city of San Diego, one cabinet card of a Mexican laborer at in an adobe doorway, presumably at Rancho Camulos by Charles F. Lummis, and one cabinet photograph of an unidentified Chinese women posed in a photographer studio by Golsh, Plaza Photograph Gallery.

photPF 184-189

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Photographs of the San Gabriel Valley and Mountains

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Consists of 30 photographs, including copy prints, postcards, and snapshots. photPF 2480 is a postcard of the Pasadena Playhouse in the 1940s with a playbill advertising "The Magic Rowan." photPF 2481 is a photograph of a newspaper advertisement for the 1890 Tournament of Roses. photPF 2482 is of Dr. Francis F. Rowland's prize winning coach for the 1890 Tournament of Roses. photPF 2483 is accompanied with handwritten correspondence providing context for the snapshot of a 2nd place winning float for the 1908 Tournament of Roses. photPF 2484 is a postcard with a view of South Pasadena from Monterey Hills with the Raymond Hotel in the distance. photPF 2485 is a postcard of South Pasadena's Cawston Ostrich Farm. photPF 2486 consists of eight photographs of unidentified individuals taken in the San Gabriel Mountains at Orchard camp in August 1913. photPF 2487 consists of three snapshots with an accompanying newspaper clipping of the famous wisteria vine at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Fennel at 201 West Carter Avenue, Sierra Madre in 1913. photPF 2488 consists of 12 snapshots of an unidentified group camping and hiking between 1914 and 1919 in the various locations in the San Gabriel Mountains, including the Arroyo Secco, Mount Wilson Pine Flat Cabins, Mount Lowe, Barley Flats, Bear Canyon, and Eaton Canyon. photPF 2489 is a snapshot of an unoccupied coach parked at Lamanda Park in Pasadena.

photPF 2480-2489

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Photographs of Santa Anita Ranch, Sierra Madre, and San Gabriel, California

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Cabinet card photographs of a Victorian house and lake in Sierra Madre, part of Santa Anita Ranch. Includes man in horse cart with a Black driver. Also E. J. "Lucky" Baldwin's ranch in San Gabriel, showing his horse, Gano, and the Hugo Reid house and lake. Two photographs by Carleton Watkins.One photograph of San Gabriel Mission and parsonage. One unrelated photograph of George Peyser and brother outside a western clothing store in Grass Valley, California.

photPF 580-589

Small farm and windmill (San Jose, California) photograph

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