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Photographs of San Diego, Santa Barbara, and El Paso, Texas

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Description: Nine cabinet card photographs. Subjects in San Diego County: San Diego Harbor; Hotel Del Coronado; and buildings and orchards of S. M. Marshall ranch in El Cajon. Four cabinet cards by Hayward & Muzzall of the bay, beach, and town of Santa Barbara as seen from the wharf. Santa Barbara Mission is in the distance. One photograph of adobes on an El Paso, Texas street, with signs in Spanish.
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Production date: approximately 1880s-1890s.
Call number: photPF 570-579
Provenance: Acquired from various sources. 1936.; Acquired from Crank, 1937.; Gift of Mr. Arthur N. and Mrs. Annetta M. Carter,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

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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San Juan Capistrano and Santa Barbara mission photographs

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Contents: The Santa Barbara Mission Garden with Father Ranerius at the gate (c1875); San Juan Capistrano Mission, corridor ruins with clergyman reading a book while walking.

photPF 3888-3899

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Santa Barbara from the Aloha [View of Santa Barbara] [Photographer: W.H.J. & Co.]

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This album contains typical commercial photographs of the towns and scenery of California, Oregon and Washington dating from the 1890s. Of note are early views of San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Francisco, Tacoma, and Seattle. There are also views of California missions and coastal landscapes. The Oregon photographs are of scenery only. Photographs of California include San Diego; Casa de Estudillo in Old Town San Diego; Mission San Luis Rey, San Juan Capistrano, and Santa Barbara; Santa Barbara; San Luis Obispo; Confederate general James Longstreet's Los Angeles home; the Bellevue Terrace Hotel; various Los Angeles homes; Pasadena; Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin's Santa Anita ranch; San Francisco city scenes; and wilderness en route to Oregon. Oregon photographs show images of the Columbia River; Mt. Hood; Latourell Falls; Multnomah Falls; and nature scenes. Photographs of Washington state include Tacoma; Green River; Native Americans from an unidentified tribe; Seattle; and Angeline, the daughter of Chief Seattle of the Suquamish tribe. Twenty-six of the pictures in this album were photographed by Isaiah West Taber and twenty-two were photographed by W.H.J. and Company. It may be that William H. Jeffers created those twenty-two photographs, as he was active in California during this time period. Other photographers who contributed to this album include Thomas H. Rutter, Charles B. Talbot, and Boyd & Braas (William F. Boyd and George H. Braas). The initials "E.B.R." and the year 1897 are embossed on the photo album's spine.

photCL 94

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Old Mission Santa Barbara

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This disbound photo album holds photographs of Missions Santa Barbara, San Gabriel, and San Juan Capistrano; Pasadena and its landmarks, including the Raymond Hotel and the Hotel Green; the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey; Seal Rock; the Pacific Ocean shore near Monterey; the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego; Riverside; Cliff House, Fort Point, and the Golden Gate Strait in San Francisco; and Lick Observatory near Mount Hamilton. Of the 33 photographs, 8 were taken by C.W.J. Johnson, 6 were taken by F.H. Maude, 4 were taken by J.E. Slocum, and 2 were taken by C.B. Waite.

photCL 93

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Santa Barbara Bay [Photographer: W.H.J. & Co.]

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photCL 94

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Santa Barbara Mission. Corridor and Arches

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