Inventory of Miscellaneous Glass Negatives of California Scenes [graphic], ca. 1898-ca. 1925?

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Inventory of Miscellaneous Glass Negatives of California Scenes [graphic], ca. 1898-ca. 1925?

Collection number: BANC PIC 19xx.480--NEG

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University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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Processed by:
The Bancroft Library staff
Date Completed:
ca. 1972
Encoded by:
James Lake
© 1998 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Miscellaneous Glass Negatives of California Scenes [graphic],
Date (inclusive): ca. 1898-ca. 1925?
Collection Number: BANC PIC 19xx.480--NEG
Extent: Number of items: 39 negatives and one leaflet
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.
Abstract: Includes two photographs of Ku Klux Klan members assembled and preparing to march, presumably in Oakland or vicinity. Also includes the Diamond Jubilee at San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco landmarks, a sailing ship on San Francisco Bay (by Rovere Scott), Tomales vicinity, the chapel at Monterey, the Port Costa Saloon exterior, and public buildings in Santa Rosa, St. Helena, and Napa (photographed by Turrill & Miller). Also includes one view of Spring Street in Los Angeles, one view of the exterior of the North Beach Bath House in Santa Monica, and several views of a military encampment of 1898, among other unidentified views.
Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research, except for negatives, which are restricted. Use viewing prints only: shelved as BANC PIC 19xx.480--PIC. Use of negatives only by permission of the appropriate curator. Inquiries concerning these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Curator of Pictorial Collections, The Bancroft Library.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Miscellaneous glass negatives of California scenes [graphic], BANC PIC 19xx.480--NEG, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Material Cataloged Separately

  • Ku Klux Klan leaflet printed in Oakland, Calif. transferred for separate cataloging.

 

Ku Klux Klan

 

:1 KKK leaflet, Oakland, Calif. [Original removed for separate cataloging. Photocopy shelved with viewing prints.]

Box 1

:2 Ku Klux Klan members in robes (in Oakland, Calif.?)

Physical Description: 5x7
Box 1

:3 Ku Klux Klan members in robes, preparing to march (in Oakland, Calif.?)

Physical Description: 5x7
 

San Francisco

Box 1

:4 Diamond Jubilee, San Francisco City Hall illuminated.

Physical Description: 5x7
Box 1

:5 Diamond Jubilee, San Francisco City Hall illuminated.

Physical Description: 5x7
Box 1

:6 Diamond Jubilee, San Francisco City Hall illuminated.

Physical Description: 5x7
Box 1

:7 Parade scene: large American flag carried horizontal to pavement (on San Francisco's Market Street?)

Physical Description: 5x7
Box 1

:8 San Francisco's Ferry Building from Bay.

Physical Description: 5x7
Box 2

:9 San Francisco's Ferry Building.

Physical Description: 5x7
Box 2

:10 Portals of the Past in Golden Gate Park.

Physical Description: 5x7
Box 2

:11 Mile Rock, off San Francisco.

Physical Description: 5x7
Box 3

:12 San Francisco[?] skyline from bay. Signed in negative: Rovere Scott.

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 3

:13 Seal Rocks, San Francisco & sailing ship. Signed in negative: Rovere Scott.

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 3

:14 Another copy of :13.

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 3

:15 Golden Gate & Fort Point, with sailing ship entering bay. Signed in negative: Rovere Scott.

Physical Description: 8x10
 

Northern California

Box 2

:16 Tomales, Calif.

Physical Description: 5x7
Box 2

:17 Tomales, Calif.

Physical Description: 5x7
Box 2

:18 Tomales, Calif.

Physical Description: 5x7
Box 2

:19 Monterey, [Royal?] Chapel.

Physical Description: 5x7
Box 3

:20 Port Costa Saloon exterior.

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 3

:21 Courthouse at Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Calif.

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 3

:22 Chamber of Commerce, Napa, Calif. By Turrill & Miller Photo.

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 3

:23 Public Library, St. Helena, Calif. By Turrill & Miller Photo.

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 4

:24 Washington School, Napa, Calif. By Turrill & Miller Photo.

Physical Description: 8x10
 

Southern California

Box 4

:25 Los Angeles: Spring Street. [Los Angeles Railway streetcar visible.]

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 4

:26 Santa Monica: North Beach Bath House exterior.

Physical Description: 8x10
 

Camp Scenes

Box 4

:27 Military style camp scene of men and boys in woods. ["NGC", National Guard of California?, written on sleeve in later hand.]

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 4

:28 Military style camp scene of men and boys in woods. ["NGC", written on sleeve in later hand.]

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 4

:29 Military style camp scene of men and boys in woods. ["NGC", written on sleeve in later hand.]

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 4

:30 Military style camp scene of men and boys in woods. ["NGC", written on sleeve in later hand.] Dated Oct.[?] 30, 1898 in negative.

Physical Description: 8x10
 

Miscellaneous

Box 4

:31 Mules laden with split wood possibly for trail construction or maintenance.

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 5

:32 "Rocks" [Man pointing from rocky promontory.]

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 5

:33 "West" [Two young men in wooded gully with telegraph pole visible.]

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 5

:34 Men climbing rocky slope. [Same men as :33?]

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 5

:35 Unidentified beach.

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 5

:36 Unidentified residence exterior: large home in Spanish or Moorish style, with pepper trees, palms and oaks visible.

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 5

:37 Pauline Burbank tombstone.

Physical Description: 8x10
 

Unidentified Portraits

Box 2

:38 Unidentified man on Indian motorcycle.

Physical Description: 5x7
Box 5

:39 Young men (students?) in posed group portrait.

Physical Description: 8x10
Box 5

:40 Boy and girl in posed scene.

Physical Description: 8x10