Finding Aid to Mendocino County Photographs taken by M.M. Hazeltine, circa 1867-1869

Processed by Katherine Ruiz.

The Bancroft Library

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Finding Aid to Mendocino County Photographs taken by M.M. Hazeltine, circa 1867-1869

Collection number: BANC PIC 1905.13608-.13651--PIC

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/

Finding Aid Author(s):: Processed by Katherine Ruiz.
Finding Aid Encoded By:: GenX

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Mendocino County Photographs taken by M.M. Hazeltine

Date (inclusive): circa 1867-1869

Collection Number: BANC PIC 1905.13608-.13651--PIC

Photographer: Hazeltine, M. M. (Martin Mason), 1827-1903

Extent: 44 photographic prints ; albumen, some hand colored, cartes de visite ; 6 x 10 cm. 48 digital objects

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: Views of Mendocino and vicinity show views of the town (residences, public buildings), lumber mills and related scenes, surrounding scenery, and an Indian village (showing teepees made of scrap lumber).

Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English

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Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Mendocino County Photographs taken by M.M. Hazeltine, circa 1867-1869, BANC PIC 1905.13608-.13651--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Digital Representations Available

Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were copied onto 35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and the Photo CD files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.

Related Collections

Title: Photographs of Oregon, California, Idaho, and Other Western Scenes, by M. M. and G. I. Hazeltine, 1857-ca. 1890?

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1905.13652-.13974--STER

Title: Stereoviews of Yosemite : From the American Scenery Series of C. L. Pond. (Photographed by M. M. Hazeltine).

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1980.076--STER

Title: Views Along the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railway Lines, by M. M. Hazeltine, ca. 1870-ca. 1889?

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1905.17142--ALB

Title: William F. Johns Mining Records, 1870-ca. 1910? (Photographed in part by M. M. Hazeltine).

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1993.037--B

Title: Logging operations in Little River, California, attributed to M. M. Hazeltine.

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1905.11998-.12002--CDV

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog

California Heritage Project

Indians of North America--California--Mendocino County--Dwellings--Photographs

Lumbering--California--Mendocino County--Photographs

Sawmills--California--Mendocino County--Photographs

Mendocino (Calif.)--Pictorial works

Mendocino County (Calif.)--Pictorial works

Albumen prints

Cartes de visite

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Unknown

Biography

Martin Mason Hazeltine was born on July 31, 1827, in Vermont. He and his brother George I. Hazeltine studied photography in St. Charles, Illinois, and then in New York City. In December of 1853 the two brothers moved to San Francisco where they operated a daguerreotype studio. Largely independently of George, M. M. Hazeltine continued in photography for decades, producing pictures of Yosemite and other scenic areas California, Oregon, and Idaho. In the mid-1860s (ca. 1866-1867), M. M. Hazeltine moved to Mendocino; his many photographs taken there and elsewhere were later published by such firms as J. P. Soule and Lawrence & Houseworth. He entered a partnership with J. J. Reilly in the 1870s based in Stockton and Yosemite Valley, but returned to Mendocino on and off until the 1880s. In the later part of his life, he lived in Idaho and Oregon. He died in 1903.

(Source: Treadwell, T. K., and William C. Darrah. Stereographers of the World. Volume II -United States. [Byran, Texas] : National Stereoscopic Association, 1994. and Palmquist, Peter E., and Kailbourn, Thomas R. Pioneer Photographers of the Far West. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2000. )

Scope and Content

This collection consists of 44 cartes de visite photographic prints of sites in Mendocino County, taken by M. M. Hazeltine, ca. 1867-1869. Included are images of Mendocino and vicinity, views of the town including residences and public buildings, lumber mills and related scenes, and an Indian village showing teepees made of scrap lumber. Captions are typewritten in a list preceding the photographs and are reprinted in the container listing.

Mendocino City, Calif. Main street (?) BANC PIC 1905.13608--PIC