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Photograph of Bodie, California

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Description: Consists one of mounted photograph taken by Grahame Hardy of Carson City, Nevada of Bodie, California in 1888.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1888.
Call number: photPF 800-809
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of April 1993.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
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Small farm and windmill (San Jose, California) photograph

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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].

photPF 3882

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Photographs of California Missions collection

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The collection of mounted albumen California Mission views include seventy various interior and exterior images of the Royal Presidio Chapel of San Carlos de Barromeo de Monterey, Mission Santa Barbara, Mission San Carlos de Barromeo de Carmelo, Mission San Diego de Alcalá, San Fernando Rey de España, San Gabriel Arcángel, Mission San Juan Bautista, Mission San Juan Capistrano, Mission San Luis Rey, Mission San Miguel Arcángel, Mission San Antonio Padua, and the Mission San Antonio de Pala. The majority of the collection's annotations note "Hardy, 1945" which may refer to the Grahame Hardy collection acquired in 1945. Several images credit Waite as the photographer.

photPF 3330-3401

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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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Miscellaenous photographs in Oregon and California

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Consists of five mounted photographs. Two are of Rogue River Falls in Oregon and one is of Mill Creek Falls in California, which were possibly taken for use for a hydro-electric project. There is also one photograph of a burnt out and unscrapped trolly car of an unidentified company in an unidentified location, and one portrait of Mrs. Mary Ramsey Lemons Wood, an Oregon pioneer. Her portrait is accompanied by a biography and family history on the verso.

photPF 2443-2447

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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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Texas and Utah views

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The albumen photographs consist of three Stereoscopic Views depicting the Alamo, Espada Mission, and Mission San Jose in San Antonio, Texas photographed by F. Hardesty. The cabinet cards capture Ensign Peak, Garfield Landing, and the "Saltair Pavilion" in Salt Lake, Utah; one of the photograph cards is attributed to C.R. Savage. The final photograph is of an unidentified army post. Handwritten notes cite "Hardy, 1945" which may refer to the original Grahame Hardy collection acquired in 1945.

photPF 3480-3489

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