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Miscellaneous photographs of Southern California and other places
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Miscellaneous photographs of California and other places
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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.
photPF 740-749
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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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Various photographs of southern California
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Consists of six photographs taken of a one story frame house in Santa Barbara, an unnamed lake (as an advertisement for the Hemet Land & Water Company for fruit lands and lots), Mission San Gabriel, John Muir, a view of Pasadena, the San Gabriel Valley, and the Mount Lowe Observatory from Mount Lowe, and an unidentified pioneer with his burro and dog. Identified photographers include L. N. Cook, C. B. Waite, and E. S. Frost & Son.
photPF 1460-1479
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Photographs of Lake Elsinore and other California locations
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Four cabinet card photographs of Lake Elsinore: "Chaney's first house in Warm Spring Valley"; a small town on the lake (1884); "first house at Elsinore" with a well; scenic view of lake. Another card photograph in this folder: First Baptist Church of San Francisco by I. W. Taber. See also a daguerreotype of this image: photDAG 61. Other photographs are the following: images of drawings of San Bernardino in the 1850s; a photographic postcard of Point Hueneme Lighthouse (1943); copy photograph of Los Angeles Plaza and surrounding buildings by Francis Parker (approximately 1871-1875).
photPF 1530-1539
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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
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Photographs of Monterey and other places in California
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Original photographs with a few copies. Photographs of old jail, Hotel Del Monte, and customs house in Monterey, California; Los Angeles' Plaza Church, plaza and adjacent adobes (1882); Hotel del Coronado dock and ferry house; group portrait of members of Southern California Editorial Association at Hotel del Coronado (1889); Camulos Ranch; group portrait of Stanford University Geological Society (1908); bird's-eye-view of town of Marysville, Yuba County (1880?); souvenir mini photographs of Sequoia National Park; ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano; fisherman at Mirror Lake, Yosemite.
photPF 2304-2329