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Miscellaneous photographs of California and other places

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Description: Consists of six items including photographs, cyanotypes, one postcard, and one packet of 12 small prints. photPF 740 is a photograph of the El Molino Viejo; photPF 741 is a photograph of Lake Memphremagog, Vermont; photPF 742 is a postcard of the birthplace of Nathan Hale; photPF 747 is a packet containing 12 small views of the damage caused by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake; photPF 748-749 are two still-life cyanotypes taken at the laboratory of asphalt paving plant at Carpenteria, depicting a skull with a hat (labeled "the prof") and a pair of old miner shoes.
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Production date: approximately 1880s-1930s.
Call number: photPF 740-749
Provenance: Acquired from various sources, including Crank, 1936.
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Miscellaneous photographs of Southern California and other places

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Includes seven photographs, including one postcard. Subjects include the Wilson School and Carterhia (Nathaniel C. Carter's home) in the San Gabriel Valley; San Pedro; a beached whale on an unidentified beach; Jessie Benton Fremont and her daughter, Elizabeth; and a postcard of a stucco house with an undated and unsigned handwritten inscription. Identified photographers include Carleton Watkins and the Garden City Foto Company.

photPF 770-789

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Photographs of the San Gabriel Valley and Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink

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Consists of 12 photographs including one postcard, snapshots, and albumen prints. photPF 2490 is a postcard of the San Gabriel Mission. photPF 2491 depicts a group of unidentified men moving a large palm tree. photPF 2492-2493 are albumen prints of orange groves in Pasadena. photPF 2949.1-2494.8 consists of nine snapshots of Ernestine Schumann Heink with friends at a garden party and stwo snapshots of a pseudo-birthday cake.

photPF 2490-2494

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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 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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Miscellaenous photographs in Oregon and California

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Consists of eleven photographs, includuing copy prints, photoprints, and mounted photographs. Most have inscriptions on the verso. photPF 2431-2434 depicted construction and staff at Fort Dalles, Oregon. photPF 2435 is a portrait of Judge George Henry Williams, the United States Attorney General under President Ulysses S. Grant and third chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. photPF 2436 is a photogrpah of a minature portrait of Presley Neville O'Bannon of the United States Marine Corps, reknown for his participation in the First Barbary War and the Battle of Derna, Libya. photPF 2437 is a cabinet card of the Shorb family home which formerly sat the grounds of the Huntington estate in San Marino; notes on the verso indicate when the structure was built and remodeled. A second photograph labeled photPF 2437 is of Guajome Ranch (Coutt's Ranch) in San Diego County. photPF 2438 is a copy print of the Moneyan Institute of San Gabriel, designed by William Money who was widely regarded as Los Angeles' first cult leader. photPF 2439 is a portrait of Jules Simoneau, a close friend of Robert Louis Stevenson. photPF 2440 is a photograph of the first casting of the "Mildred and William Dean Howells" bronze relief which currently sits in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (NPG.65.65). An inscription in Mildred's hand is written on the verso, and it is accompanied by a note from Mildred addressed to Mr. Schad.

photPF 2431-2440

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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.

photPF 930-939

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