Collection Summary
Information for Researchers
Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Scope and Content
Collection Summary
Collection Title: Raun Family Photograph Album of California Scenes [graphic],
Date: ca. 1900
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1975.028--fALB
Creator:
Raun family
Extent:
Number of items: 1 album (77 photographic prints) : platinum prints?
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Languages Represented:
English
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Raun family photograph album of California scenes [graphic], BANC PIC 1975.028--fALB, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Material Cataloged Separately
- Four photographs of the Benson Smelter (Benson, Arizona?), also from the estate of Edward Raun (BANC PIC 1975.027--PIC)
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Purchased from the California Book Auction Co. (Sale no. 105, Nov. 1974, item #288) in memory of Francis Overstreet Kelsey.
From the estate of Edward Tuttle Raun of Oakland, Calif.
Biographical Note
The Rauns were a family of Oakland, Calif. pioneers. Eduard P. Raun (b. 1856, Coloma, Calif.) operated the Del Ray Quartz
Mine, Amador County, Calif. His father, Eduard Theodor Raun, came to California in 1849 and, in 1853 married Charlotte Augusta
Phelps of Benicia, Calif. (Biographical information is derived from the auction catalog of Sale 105 of the California Book
Auction Galleries (Nov. 1974)).
Scope and Content
Snapshots or amateur views including San Francisco's Cliff House and Golden Gate Park, Monterey, Sacramento, Mt. Tamalpais,
Sausalito, the Mokelumne River, and the Del Ray [sic] mine. Also present is a view of the tombstone of Eduard Theodor and
Charlotta Augusta Raun, parents of Eduard P. Raun.