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Miscellaneous photographs of Southern California and other places

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Description: 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.
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Production date: approximately 1880s-1930s.
Call number: photPF 770-789
Provenance: Acquired from various sources, including Carter and Prinz, 1937 and 1943. .
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

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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Views of Southern California including the San Gabriel Mountains and San Diego County

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5 snapshots taken by Mary Augusta Nailen in 1925 of the Pacific Electric Railroad at Mount Lowe and Echo Mountain and the chapel at Switzer's Falls in the San Gabriel Mountains, and 4 photographic postcards depicting various tourist sites in the San Gabriel Mountains, Pasadena, and San Diego County, California. Includes one photographic postcard depicting East Green Street, Pasadena, looking East from Los Robles, 1930 (photPF 20066); one photograph of an automobile stage on road to Mount Wilson (photPF 20067); two photographic postcards by Frashers Foto, Pomona of the Old Spanish Light House, Point Loma, Calif., ca. 1931 (photPF 20068-20069); and one photographic postcard shows the highway in Encinitas, California, ca. 1929 (photPF 20070).

photPF 20061-20070

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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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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 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

Miscellaneous photographs of Southern California and other places

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