Photographs of the American Western Frontier and Baltimore

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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.

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  Photographs related to Western frontier life, Native Americans at Fort Custer, and others

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  Three copies of photographs related to the C. X. Larrabee family: Larrabee ranch, Madison County, Wisconsin; Fairhaven Hotel, Washington; and Mary Ann Johnson Larrabee at her home in Omro, Wisconsin. The photograph of the Larrabee ranch is a group portrait of several white men and a woman in front of a house, with one Black woman and one Chinese man in cook's apron included. Other photographs: three albumen photographs of Sioux Indians at Fort Custer, Montana receiving clothes rations with cavalry officers nearby; Sioux men and women with tipis and horses (1884); cowboy riding with a buffalo herd by photographer Sumner W. Matteson (1890s-1900s); photographs of prints of covered wagons and a stagecoach being attacked by Native Americans; camels hitched for transportation. Lastly, one unrelated photograph of the Pedro Andrade adobe, Elizabeth Lake, California, built in 1858, later used as a stage station.

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  Photographs of Aimee Semple McPherson and her ministry

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  Consists of head-and-shoulder vignette portraits of Los-Angeles based evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and her husband David Hutton (photPF 24910); two photographic postcards of her residence in Lake Elsinore, California (photPF 24911-24912); a group portrait of church members standing in front of the San Pedro Four Square Lighthouse Church in 1929 (photPF 24913); an exterior view of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, with a sign "The Open Book Munhall Revival Campaign" on the building (photpF 24914); a photographic postcard of "Brother Arthur" (Joseph W. Arthur, co-pastor of the Angelus Temple) (photPF 24915); and a printed "Season's Greetings" card from McPherson (photPF 24916).

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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.

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  Photographs of central and southern California

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  Consists of six photographs. photPF 910, depicting a scene in San Luis Obispo, is a copy print from corresponding lantern slide number 113 in phoCL 352. photPF 911 shows the Arrowhead Hot Springs Hotel against the mountains. photPF 912, 914, 915 show various locations across Pasadena and includes one stereograph. photPF 917 presents a view of San Pedro Harbor.

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  Photographs of the Southern California coast and Japanese commission to study American education

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  Consists of fifteen photographs and cyanotype prints. photPF 360-363 are cyanotype prints of the Ojai Valley, Carpenteria, and other areas along the California coast. photPF 364-368 are carte de visite of various members of the first Japanese Commission to Study American Education and Commerce (possibly referring to the Iwakura Mission of 1871-1873). Named members include M. Yura, Iwao, Okubo, Hitotsbashi (Tokugawa Yoshinobu), and Sanjio. Photographers and studios include Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, Selleck & Fisher, Curtis Taylor, Edouarts J. Cobb, Kramer, and Rockwood & Co. photPF 369 is a group portrait of Mrs. Charles De Long, the wife of the U.S. minister to Japan (1869-1873) and a group of unidentified titled Japanese ladies.

  photPF 360-369