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Inventory of Photographs from the Marsh Family Papers, circa 1855-1952
BANC PIC 1963.004-.009
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Collection Title: Photographs from the Marsh Family papers
Date (inclusive): circa 1855-1952
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1963.004-.009
Creator:
Marsh family
Extent:
circa 350 photographic prints
91 digital objects (91 images)
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: Photographs from the Marsh and Camron (Cameron) family. Collection includes large number of portraits and several albums of
the Marsh and Camron (Cameron) families and friends. In addition, views taken in San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Mill
Valley, Pleasanton, Auburn, Ben Lomond, Soda Spring, Calif. and other locations (Honolulu) are present. Photos depict city
views, missions, ships, camping, vacationing, and exteriors and interiors of residences.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research, except for portraits (tintype and portrait on ivory[?]), which are restricted. Use of portraits
only by permission of the appropriate curator. Inquiries concerning these materials should be directed, in writing, to the
Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.
Also, the collection is partially unarranged and unavailable for use. Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed,
in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.
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.
[Identification of item], Photographs from the Marsh Family Papers, BANC PIC 1963.004-.009, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley
Digital reproductions of selected images are available.
Title: Marsh Family Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1815-1960,
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS C-B 879
Gift of the estate of Amy Gertrude Cameron, with additions from the estate of Dorothy V. Lyman, 1965.
John Marsh and his wife Abigail Smith (Tuck) Marsh were early California pioneers in Contra Costa County. Their daughter,
Alice, married William Walker Camron, a landowner in the vicinity of Orinda, Calif. and, later, a resident of Oakland, Calif.
Alice and/or her daughter changed the spelling of their surname to Cameron.
Scope and Content of Collection
Photographs from the Marsh and Camron (Cameron) family. Collection includes large number of portraits and several photograph
albums of the Marsh and Camron (Cameron) families and friends. In addition, views taken in San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Monterey,
Mill Valley, Pleasanton, Auburn, Ben Lomond, Soda Spring, Calif. and other locations are present. Photos depict city views,
missions, ships, camping, vacationing, and exteriors and interiors of residences. Two 1860s cartes de visite photographs by
W. Dickson of Honolulu are included, picturing a grass house and poi eaters. One ambrotype (collodion positive) plate of the
John Marsh home (Brentwood area, Contra Costa Co., Calif.) and numerous later views of the home and the historic marker erected
are present.
Summary of portions of collection, as divided by 6 call numbers:
1963.004: Portraits of the Marsh, Tuck and Camron (Cameron) families and friends, 11 of which are cased photographs (daguerreotypes,
ambrotypes and tintype).
1963.005: Album of cartes de visite portraits of the Camron (Cameron), Marsh, Tuck, and related families in California and
New England, chiefly.
1963.006: Album of cabinet card portraits of the Camron (Cameron), Marsh, Tuck, and related families in California and New
England, chiefly.
1963.007: Miscellaneous family photographs, including views of family homes, San Francisco Bay Area snapshots, and other California
locales.
1963.008: Album and removed snapshots of Bay Area and other California locations.
1963.009: Album of cyanotype outdoor scenes taken by William Walker Cameron. Locations include: Auburn, Soda Springs, Sierra
Nevada mountains, Calaveras, Bay Area locales.