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Zelda Mackay Collection of Stereographic Views, ca. 1860-ca. 1900
BANC PIC 1905.14906-.16118 -- STER
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Collection Title: Zelda Mackay Collection of Stereographic Views,
Date: ca. 1860-ca. 1900
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1905.14906-.16118 -- STER
Extent:
733 mounted stereographic prints.
778 digital objects
Collector:
Zelda Mackay
Repository:
The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Languages Represented:
English
Collection if available for use.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted
in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. 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.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted
to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item],
Zelda Mackay Collection of Stereographic Views, BANC PIC 1905.14906-.16118 --STER, 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.
Other material from the collection of Zelda Mackay owned by the Bancroft Library:
Title: Portraits and California Views
,
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1905.16120-.16219 -- PIC
Title: Yosemite Views
,
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1905.16220-.16241 -- A
Title: Zelda Mackay Pictorial Collection
,
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1905.16242 -- PIC
The Zelda Mackay Collection of Stereographic Views was purchased from Zelda Mackay in 1961.
Zelda Mackay was a lifelong collector of photographic and other historical material. A San Francisco resident and 1916 graduate
from the University of California, Berkeley, Mackay amassed an invaluable collection of photographs of California and Western
America as part of a much larger general photographic collection. She sold the California-Western America portion of her collection
to the Bancroft Library, and sold the remainder of her collection to the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.
The Zelda Mackay Collection of Stereographic Views contains 733 mounted stereographic prints produced from circa 1860 to circa
1900. The general subject matter of the collection is the North American West from Alaska to Mexico (excluding Canada) and
Colorado to California. Included among the many California locations are San Francisco, Yosemite Valley, and Los Angeles,
as well as various areas along the lines of the Central Pacific Railroad. (For a more complete listing of areas and subjects
pictured in the collection, see the location outline below.)
The collection features the work of several notable photographers, including Carleton E. Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, Charles
R. Savage, Thomas Houseworth, William Henry Jackson, Edward and Henry T. Anthony, Edward and Benjamin West Kilburn, Charles
Bierstadt, John J. Reilly, and Isaiah W. Taber.
Additional Note
Outline of Featured Locations and Miscellaneous Subjects
- Alaska (Gold Rush)
- 14906-14911
- Oakland and Vicinity
- 14911, 15064, 15504
- Salt Lake City and Utah
- 14913, 15157-15178, 15472, 15474-15476
- San Francisco
- 14914, 14988-14992, 15180-15422, 15480-15498
- Arizona
- 14915-14918
- E.J. Baldwin Ranch (San Gabriel Valley)
- 14919
- Ralston Residence (Belmont)
- 14920-14921
- Calveras Co. (Big Trees)
- 14922-14929
- Yosemite Valley Region
- 14930, 15082, 15505-15512, 15963-16112
- Riverside Co.
- 14931, 15154-15156
- Calistoga (Napa Co.)
- 14932
- Sonoma Co.
- 14933, 14971-14987, 15079-15081
- Colorado
- 14934, 14937-14958
- Placer Co.
- 14935-14936, 15022
- Oregon
- 14959-14968, 15067-15068, 15073-15075
- Farallone Islands
- 14969-14970
- El Dorado Co.
- 14993
- Lake Co.
- 14994
- Lake Tahoe Region
- 14996-15003, 15477
- Mendocino Co.
- 15004
- Washington (state) (inc. Seattle)
- 15005, 15444-15450, 15466-15471
- Los Angeles Region
- 15006-15017, 15076-15078, 15478-15479
- Mare Island (Solano Co.)
- 15018
- Mexico
- 15019-15020
- Gold and Silver Mining
- 15021-15031
- Missions and Churches (inc. Arizona, New Mexico)
- 15032-15048
- Mount Shasta and Siskiyou County
- 15015-15059
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 15060-15063
- Kern Co.
- 15065
- Sacramento
- 15069-15072
- Railroad Views (Union Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad)
- 15083-15153
- San Diego Co.
- 15179
- San Jose
- 15423-15430
- San Mateo
- 15431
- San Rafael
- 15432
- Santa Barbara
- 15433-15439
- Santa Clara
- 15440-15442
- Santa Cruz
- 15443
- Stockton
- 15452-15465
- Montana
- 15473
- Yellowstone (Wyoming)
- 15499-15503
- Lotta Crabtree
- 16115-16116
- Emma Lake (Miss Hicock)
- 16117
- Castle Lindenhof (Europe)
- 16118