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Looking down the Yosemite Valley
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Image of a landscape view of Yosemite Valley in California, looking west.
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The Mountains of California: II by John Muir (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
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Manuscript specimen Fragment from a draft of chapter 7, page 147 (note: this fragment directly leads to the fragment tipped into volume 7 of this set): "+ seems delightfully substantial + familiar. The rosiny pines are types of health, the Robins feeding on the lawn ^sod belong to the same species you have known since childhood, + surely these are the very flowers of the old home garden. Bees hum as in a harvest noon," Added images • Color frontispiece (same as original frontispiece): El Capitan, Yosemite National Park • Facing page 10: Water-Ouzel. • Facing page 34: Wild Sheep. … [photo. By Enos A. Mills] • Facing page 56: A Young California Panther. • Facing page 84: Hemizonia. • Facing page 94: Chamissal Bush (Adenostoma fasciculata). • Facing page 108: A Southern California Bee-Ranch. • Facing page 116: Maidenhair Ferns. • Facing page 128: Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point. • Facing page 132: Bridal Veil Fall. • Facing page 134: The Cathedral Rocks. • Facing page 136: The Yosemite Fall. • Facing page 154: The Nevada Fall. • Facing page 184: Yellow Pines in Yosemite Valley. • Facing page 190: The South Dome, from the River • Facing page 192: The South Dome in Winter. • Facing page 204b: From the Summit of Fairview Dome. • Facing page 222: Down Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point Trail. • Facing page 224: Looking down on the Nevada Trail. • Facing page 236: The Tuolumne Meadows. • Facing page 242: South from the Summit of Mt. Dana. • Facing page 244: Southeast from the Summit of Mt. Lyell. • Facing page 246: The Big Tuolumne Canyon. • Facing page 268: The Royal Arches. • Facing page 272: "Icy Blades" on the Lyell Glacier. • Facing page 280: Hetch Hetchy Falls.
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Looking down 8900 feet from the overhang rocks at Glacier Point to the Valley below, Yosemite. (Imprint no: 665)
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This is a collection primarily of negatives and photographic prints depicting the growth of Santa Monica and Los Angeles, California, from 1860s to 1980s. Many views are cityscapes or street views, showing buildings, storefronts, homes and roads, and documenting the use of railroads, trolleys, streetcars, and automobiles. There are many card photographs by early professional photographers, and also a number of snapshots made by amateurs, some in personal photo albums. The collection's scope also includes early views of many other communities in Southern California (and a few in other states); the beginnings of aviation in Santa Monica, including the first Douglas Aircraft Company buildings; a photo album of residents in Topanga Canyon, ca. 1913; automobile racing in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, 1920s; maritime views; a photo album of U.S. troops in France during World War I; a 1949 real estate development in Apple Valley, California, and others. Besides photographs, a portion of the collection consists of scarce publications and historical ephemera, primarily related to Santa Monica and Los Angeles, including brochures, advertising cards, menus, event programs and other materials. Highlights of the Santa Monica images are aerial views of the buildings along the coast and pier (1920s); several views of the Arcadia Hotel (1880s); the Long Wharf and adjoining railroad and train depot; the first bath houses on the beach; the beach club culture of the 1920s and 1930s; the amusement piers of Santa Monica, Ocean Park and Venice; and the beginnings of the Douglas Aircraft Company. There is a large set of promotional photographs made late 1920s-1930s by Powell Press Service depicting people enjoying Santa Monica's beaches, clubs and outdoor recreation. An important subset within the collection is 407 negatives made ca. 1890 - 1908 by Los Angeles historian and amateur photographer George W. Hazard (1842-1914). Hazard travelled around Los Angeles and vicinity photographing the adobes, houses, streets and storefronts that told the early history of the city. Many of Hazard's negatives have handwritten identifications, naming streets, former homeowners, ranchos, and other historical details. There are a large number of cabinet cards and other card-mounted prints and stereographs. There are 1,264 stereograph prints, highlighted by the works of photographic pioneers William M. Godfrey, Francis Parker, Hayward & Muzzall, and Carleton Watkins. Other formats represented are: glass and film negatives; panoramic prints; 7 photograph albums, photographic postcards, 20th-century color prints and transparencies; and a small number of tintypes, cyanotypes and a set of chromolithographs.
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My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
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Manuscript specimen Fragment of page 15 from a draft of chapter 7, page 151: "bronzing the grasses, + ripening the creeping heathworts along the banks of the stream to [a] reddish purple + crimson, while the flowers vanish [disappear], all save the goldenrods + a few daisies that continue to bloom on unscathed until the beginning of snowy winter. In still night the grass panicles" Added images • Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 122): The North and South Domes • Facing page 6: A Flock of Sheep on the Road. • Facing page 20: California Azalea. [A. occidentalis] • Facing page 26: California Twining Lily. • Facing page 36: Cumulus Clouds in the High Sierra. • Facing page 40: A California Lizard. • Facing page 50: Sugar Pine Cones. • Facing page 58: An Old Indian Woman and Acorn Cache, in the Yosemite Valley. • Facing page 90: Forest near Crane Flat. • Facing page 100: A Glaciated Pavement. • Facing page 110: Junipers above Lake Merced. • Facing page 116: The Half-Dome. • Facing page 130: The North Dome. • Facing page 146: Cathedral Peak. • Facing page 148: Summit of Mt. Hoffman. • Facing page 152: White-bark Pine, appressed. • Facing page 162: Two-leaved Pines. • Facing page 166: Young Silver Firs. • Facing page 182b: The Liberty Cap. • Facing page 198: The Tuolumne Meadows, from Juniper Crest. • Facing page 202: Delaney Meadow. [The meadow where Mr. Muir spent six weeks in the summer of 1869, overseeing sheep-herding. Since named after Mr. Delaney, the owner of the sheep.] • Facing page 214: Bloody Canyon. • Facing page 224: Moraine Lake. [Now called Walker Lake] • Facing page 242: Mammoth Mountain. [Kuna Crest] • Facing page 248: Clumps of Albicaulis Pine on the Slopes of Cathedral Peak. • Facing page 250: Cassiope.
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