Captain Blanding's Photograph album MS.298
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University of California, Santa Cruz
2006
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Santa Cruz 95064
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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Captain William Blanding's Photograph album
Creator:
Mitchell, Harriet Danforth Becker (Mrs. John L. Mitchell)
Identifier/Call Number: MS.298
Physical Description:
1 Linear Feet
1 flat
Date (inclusive): 1887-1888
Abstract: This album of 56 mounted photographs was given to Captain Blanding by Harriet Danforth Becker Mitchell (Mrs. John L. Mitchell)
as a souvenir of a trip to the Pacific Coast in 1887 by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers.
Language of Material:
English
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Preferred Citation
Captain Blanding's Photograph album. MS 298. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California,
Santa Cruz.
Acquisition Information
Donor unknown
Scope and Content of Collection
This photograph album was given to Captain Blanding by Mrs. John L. Mitchell as a souvenir of a trip to the Pacific Coast
in 1887. The 56 photographs are all albumen prints, each 4.5 x 3.5 inches, mounted on thick cardboard pages two prints per
page and bound into a leather album approx. 10 x 12 x 2 inches.
Biographical / Historical
This scrapbook was created in 1887, the year Congress passed the Dawes Act. This legislation was designed to disenfranchise
American Indian populations by breaking up traditional systems of land tenure and imposing a system of government-regulated
private property ownership.
Finding aid revision statement
This finding aid was revised in the Reparative Archival Redescription Project in 2021-2022. Previous versions of this finding
aid are available upon request.
General note
The following captions are below the photographs.
Related Materials
Mitchell, John L. (John Lendrum), 1842-1904. Description of a trip to California : with the Board of Managers of the National
Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers : delivered to the members of the Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wis.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photograph albums
Indians of North America -- Land tenure
1. General Patrick [Union General Marsena R. Patrick, 1811-1888] 1
1887
2-5. Review of Veterans at Soldiers Home, Dayton, Ohio 2-5
1887
6. Looking down into a coñon [canyon] in the Rockies from the platform of the car [train] 6
1887
7. Eagle Gate, Salt Lake City [Utah] 7
1887
8. Kelton [Utah], a deserted mining town 8
1887
9. Squaws who refuse "to be taken" [? Wadsworth, Nevada] 9
1887
10. Indians on platform of cars [train] 10
1887
11. Indians watching the train 11
1887
12-13. Seal Rocks near San Francisco [California] 12-13
1887
14. Schooner entering San Francisco Bay 14
1887
15. Ship at anchor in San Francisco Bay 15
1887
16. Albatross and Goat Islands 16
1887
17. Albatross Island 17
1887
18. Gen'l Franklin [William B. Franklin, 1823-1903], Gen'l Black [John C. Black, 1839-1915], Gov. Stoneman [George Stoneman,
Jr., 1822-1894]
18
1887
19. Gen'l Hyde [Thomas W. Hyde, 1841-1899], Gen'l Black [John C. Black, 1839-1915], Gen'l Martin [possibly William T. Martin,
1823-1910]
19
1887
20. Live oaks at Monterey [California] 20
1887
21. Drive to Government Lands Monterey 21
1887
22. View at Monterey 22
1887
23. The Mojava [Mojave] Desert 23
1887
24. Mission at Santa Barbara [California] 24
1887
25. Court of Mission at Santa Barbara, Kindness of General McMahon 25
1887
26. Ladies in Cloister at the Mission 26
1887
27. Dolci [Dolce] far niente [sweet idleness] 27
1887
28. Trees near Pasadena [California] 28
1887
29. Pepper tree, Pasadena 29
1887
30. Dinner at Raymond Hotel, Pasadena 30
1887
31. Florence Hotel, San Diego [California; demolished] 31
1887
32. Coronado Beach Hotel [San Diego] 32
1887
33. Coronado beach, Point Loma [San Diego] 33
1887
34. Ostriches, Coronado Island 34
1887
35. Century Plant in bloom 35
1887
36. Camp of workmen at Sweetwater [Dam; San Diego County] 36
1887
37. Sweetwater Dam [under construction] 37
1887-88
38. Sweetwater Reservoir 38
1887-88
39. The San Bernardino Range 39
1887
40. View a site at Hesperia [San Bernardino County, California] 40
1887
41. Hesperia [two men, two tents under a Joshua tree] 41
1887
42. Hesperia [two men in a wagon in front of a Joshua tree] 42
1887
43. Railroad accident in Arizona [train engine close-up] 43
1887
44. Railroad accident in Arizona [distant view] 44
1887
45. Boundary of Arizona and New Mexico 45
1887
46. Curious rock formations 46
1887
47. Town in New Mexico 47
1887
48. Squaws selling pottery [Native Americans selling hand-made items] 48
1887
49. Scene at a Railway Station [men talking, train platform, buildings] 49
1887
50. Scene at a Railway Station [four men talking next to train car] 50
1887
51. Mount Bernal [Starvation Peak, Bernal, New Mexico] 51
1887
52. The Board of Managers [National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers] 52
1887
54. Pueblo near Las Vegas [with two Native American children] 54
1887
55. Family of burros [man with three burros] 55
1887
56. Packed for Home [burro with firewood] 56
1887
