California Cornerstones
Selected Images from The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection
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California Cornerstones
Selected Images from The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
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- 1994
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- Gabriela A. Montoya
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Title: California Cornerstones: Selected Images from The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection
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[Identification of item], California Cornerstones: Selected Images from The Bancroft
Library Pictorial Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Abstract
California Cornerstones is a collection of significant historical images from The
Bancroft Library and provides a preview of recent technological developments and their
application in a series of Library research and development projects. These projects are
designed to solve problems involving access to and control of digital images and
information on electronic networks, such as the Internet.
California Cornerstones also serves as a showcase for a series of digital images that are
now available worldwide through electronic network technology. These images were selected
from the Pictorial Collection of The Bancroft Library to illustrate the entire span of
California's modern history, from exploration through early European settlement, to the
present.
This is a sampling of the kinds of material that appear in a project called California
Heritage Digital Image Access Project, a large digital archive of important California
images that is part of an ambitious collaboration with other state archival institutions.
Through digital access projects, such as California Cornerstones, the University of
California, Berkeley Library is positioned to be the catalyst for other valuable project
collaborations.
Pictorial Collection Overview
The Bancroft Library, founded as a private historical research library in the late 1850s
by Hubert Howe Bancroft, was purchased by the Regents of the University of California in
1905 and moved the next year from San Francisco to Berkeley where it now functions
administratively as a branch of The Library, University of California, Berkeley. The
Bancroft Library is one of the largest libraries of manuscripts, rare books, and special
collections in the United States. Among its components are the Bancroft Collection of
Western Americana, the Rare Books Collections, Pictorial Collections, the Mark Twain
Papers and Project, the Regional Oral History Office, the History of Science and
Technology Program, and the University Archives. The Bancroft Library's holdings include
over 400,000 volumes, 32,000 linear feet of manuscripts, 3,500,000 photographs and other
pictorial materials, 67,000 microforms, and 21,000 maps. The Bancroft Library Pictorial
Collections, comprising an estimated 3.5 million items in a variety of media, documents
and illustrates the history of the settlement of California and the American West.
Scholars from all parts of the United States and the world make use of The Bancroft
Library Pictorial Collections for the rich documentation of local history, emphasizing
California and the West. In addition to important materials on aboriginal settlement, The
Bancroft Library holds papers and family pictures relating to thousands of settlers in
California and the American West, from the Spanish era to the present time (e.g., the
Vallejo and Cooper-Molera families, James Phelan, Earl Warren).
The Bancroft Library's pictorial documentation of early exploration is unparalleled and
includes unique, original drawings and paintings that were made by official expedition
artists accompanying the La Perouse Expedition (1769), the Malaspina Expedition (1791),
Vancouver's Expeditions (1792 et al.), the Langsdorf Expedition (1806), the Rezanov
Expedition (1816), and later American expeditions and surveys. The Bancroft Library
Pictorial Collections also contain paintings, drawings, photographs, and other visual
representations from the earliest recorded images to the present. The collection uniquely
document the history of western North America, particularly from the western plains
states to the Pacific Coast and from Panama to Alaska, with greatest emphasis on
California and Mexico.
The development of photography and the growth of the American West are chronologically
parallel, which allows the Pictorial Collections to provide a complete panorama of
settlement and expansion. Special emphasis is given to the California Gold Rush and
19th-century images of California transportation. Other major subject areas significantly
represented in the collections include Yosemite and other wilderness areas; mining in
California, Nevada and Alaska; the lumber industry; Native Americans in California; early
exploration; California Missions; the Monterey Peninsula; vacation and leisure
activities; major industrial projects (bridge and dam constructions, shipyards, etc.);
World War II in California; Japanese American relocation; Chinese Americans in
California; and immigrant labor. The Bancroft Library owns the first pictures ever made
of San Francisco, Monterey, and countless other locations along the Pacific coast and
Hawaii. One of Bancroft's greatest strengths in photography lies in the thousands of
nineteenth-century images of California cities and towns. In the collections are found
photographs by the famous, such as Eadweard Muybridge, C.E. Watkins, Edward Weston,
George Fiske, Arnold Genthe, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Ansel Adams, by
commercial photographers, such as San Francisco's Isaiah West Taber, and by hundreds of
lesser-known California photographers who are just now beginning to be documented. Also
of great historical and human interest are the thousands of photographs taken by amateur
photographers over the past 140 years which provide researchers with an extraordinary
insight into daily lives, personalities, and events.
Scope and Content
California Cornerstones is a selection of images from various collections in The Bancroft
Library. The images have been organized by provenance; that is, they have been grouped
around the individual or corporate body that created or collected the materials. Most
come from collections of photographs, such as the William C. Barry Collection or the
Frank B. Rodolph Collection. Some come from collections made up primarily of textual
records. These, like the Henry J. Kaiser papers or the Sierra Club records, are large
collections that include, in addition to photographs, materials such as correspondence,
reports, minutes of meetings, diaries, and published pamphlets. A number of the oldest
images have been reproduced from illustrations in published books, such as Georg von
Langsdorff's Observations on a journey around the world, an account of an exploring
expedition that visited the California coast in 1806. One particularly important source
has been the Robert Honeyman Collection, an extensive group that includes paintings,
drawings, prints, and photographs, most of which relate to the history of California in
the 18th and 19th centuries.
California Cornerstones contains images created by prominent photographers and artists,
many of whom received international recognition for their work. These include early San
Francisco photographers like Eadweard Muybridge, Isaiah West Taber, and Carleton E.
Watkins. The work of Arnold Genthe is represented by one of his acclaimed portraits of
the dancer Isadora Duncan, a native of San Francisco. There are also reproductions of
prints by explorers of early California, such as Louis Choris and August Bernard du
Hautcilly. More recent photography is represented by works of Dorothea Lange and Ansel
Adams. Images in California Cornerstones cover a range of subjects of great significance
to the history of the state. Many document California's diverse population, including
photographs of Native Americans, the Chinese American community in San Francisco, and the
internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The gold rush is represented in
reproductions of daguerreotypes. The development of transportation can be seen in images
of horse-drawn, rail, automobile, and air travel. Urban growth is depicted in images of
19th century cities. There are also a variety of genres present, including portraits,
bird's eye views, and aerial photographs. There are portraits of people prominent in the
state's cultural and political life, as well as people whose identities are unkown. And
many locales are present, from San Diego in 1850 to turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to
scenes from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
Biographies
Following are short biographies of photographers, artists and corporate bodies
responsible for the images in California Cornerstones.
Browne, J. Ross (John Ross), 1821-1875
Born in Ireland, [he] was brought to Kentucky age 11, and as a young man became a
shorthand reporter for the U.S. Senate. His love of travel soon took him to a wide range
of places and occupations, out of which came his diverse writings. His first major
voyage, aboard a whaler in the Indian Ocean, resulted in Etchings of a Whaling Cruise
(1846), influenced by Two Years Before the Mast. He next got an appointment in the
Revenue Service, which took him to California on a voyage around the Horn and in time
provided part of the material for Crusoe's Island... with Sketches of Adventures in
California and Washoe (1864).
After three months in California (1849) he found his post gone but got another for
himself as official reporter of the Constitutional Convention that led to California's
statehood. He next made a Mediterranean tour, reported in
Yusef (1853), a
volume of his text and witty drawings, anticipating Clemens'
Innocents Abroadin its amused depiction of Americans and the foreign lands to which they
traveled.
Granted a government appointment to inspect federal custom houses, Browne returned to
California (1854) and the next year moved his family to Oakland into a house later
enlarged to become known as the exotic edifice, Pagoda Hill. In succeeding years he held
other governmental posts, which led to reports (including "Indian Reservations" printed
in Harper's, 1861) that exposed corruption and mismanagement and also revealed the
complex causes of Indian wars in Oregon. The work also resulted in a book for the general
public,
Adventures in the Apache Country, a Tour through Arizona and Sonora with
notes on the Silver Regions of Nevada
(1869). Another federal appointment, as
commissioner of mines and mining, led to further reports, was followed by his final
governmental post, as minister to China (1868)...
Hart, James D.
A Companion to California. (New York : Oxford University Press, 1978), p. 54.
Choris, Ludovik Andrevitch, 1795-1828
Ludovik Choris was born in the Ukraine, the child of German and Russian parents. He was
educated in Moscow, and by age twenty had already become an experienced traveler in the
Caucasus Mountains where he worked as artist-naturalist for Marshall von Biederstein, a
German botanist. During the same year, 1815, Choris embarked on a new adventure when, as
he later wrote, "the brig Rurik commanded by Captain Otto von Kotzebue, sailed from St.
Petersburg for a voyage of discovery around the world. At scarcely twenty years of age, I
went as draftsman with this expedition, the expenses of which were covered by Count
Romanzoff, Chancellor of the Russian Empire... During the course of this voyage, which
lasted three years, all the objects which struck my youthful imagination and my eyes were
gathered and drawn by me, sometimes with the leisure permitted by an extended sojourn,
sometimes with the rapidity made necessary by a short appearance." These drawings and
studies were later arranged and mounted to serve as models for finished paintings and
illustrations. His first set of illustrations, prepared for Kotzebue's report on the
voyage of the Rurik, Entdeckungs-reise in Südsee, prepared for publication after
their return to Europe in 1817, were disappointing in quality. Choris's unfamiliarity
with the intaglio techniques of engraving, etching, and acquatint produced rather stiff
and unattractive results, but after his move to Paris he continued his art studies.
Having mastered the technique of lithography, a much more appropriate medium for the
expression of his style, Choris prepared and published his
Voyage pittoresque
autour du monde
in fascicles (1820). As he wrote later, "I reproduced, for the
most part, characteristic portraits of the peoples visited by the Rurik, including their
habitations, arms, musical instruments, and ornaments; and a few landscapes that I had
drawn." The beauty and artistic quality of this work made it an immediate success, and in
1822 it was re-published in book form by Firmin Didot at Paris. The lithographic plates
designed by Choris and printed by Langlum were supplied with or without added color, and
The Bancroft Library is fortunate to own good examples of the volume in both states.
Choris's final publication before his untimely death in 1828 was the rarely-seen
Vues et paysages des régions équinoxiales, Paris (1826),
based on expedition drawings which had not been used in the Voyage pittoresque... [In
this work,] Ludovik Choris found new and inventive ways to combine narrative interest
with detailed studies of anthropological subjects and botanical detail. It is much to be
regretted that he lost his life to robbers less than two years later, while on the road
to Vera Cruz; his work was not finished.
Lawrence Dinnean Bancroftiana. No. 89. (August 1985), p. 5-6
Fiske, George, 1835-1918
One of the very best [of Yosemite's photographers of] the pioneer era was George Fiske.
After a brief stint in Sacramento as a banker, the former resident of Amherst, New
Hampshire, took up residence in San Francisco as a photographer in 1864. During the next
two decades he perfected his art, and in 1879-1880 he became the first photographer to
live in the spectacular Yosemite Valley through the winter season. With his 5-by-8-inch
and 11-by-14-inch cameras, he produced a fine series of "winter wonderland" albumen
photographs.
Clearly enraptured by the valley's beauty and economic potential, Fiske and his wife
built their home and studio on the valley floor in 1883. For the next 35 years, George
Fiske wandered over the region with his wet and dry plate cameras, transported in a
wagon, "cloud-chasing Chariot" (wheelbarrow) or, during the winter months, a sturdy sled.
No other photographer had spent so much time in the valley or produced such a
comprehensive pictorial interpretation. However, most of his great Yosemite landscape
views, according to his biographers, were made between
1879 and
1887.
Despite the generally fine quality of his work, Fiske did not receive the same acclaim as
his contemporaries, Eadweard Muybridge and C.E. Watkins. Only in recent years has his
memory been revived and his work applauded.
Kurutz, Gary F.
California State Library Foundation
Bulletin.
Number 23. (April 1988), p. 27,
29.
Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942
Genthe was born to a sophisticated academic household in Berlin. Although his first love
was painting, the family's economic difficulties forced him to a plan a university
career. He pursued classical literary studies in Germany and France, publishing a
dictionary of German slang and writing a thesis on philology. He eventually found work as
the tutor to the son of a German baron and a California heiress, and in this capacity he
came to San Francisco in 1895. Deciding to stay on the Pacific Coast, he taught himself
photography and created a noteworthy series of images of Chinatown (1896-1906).
Eventually Genthe became an established portrait photographer. His clients included the
city's wealthy families and visiting celebrities. His highly personalized style was
considered both glamorous and artistic, and his work emphasized the most attractive
elements of his subjects. After the earthquake of 1906 he recorded now-famous scenes of
the burning city and the refugees from the fire.
In 1911 Genthe moved to New York City and achieved great success with his images of
Manhattan's social and artistic elite. Among his close friends was the innovative dancer
Isadora Duncan, and it was Genthe's portraits that Duncan considered the most truly
representative of her art. In 1925 he conducted an extensive photographic study of New
Orleans, and he later went on photographic tours of the Far East and Latin America.
His fame grew considerably in the 1920s, but by the late 1930s his aesthetic had become
passé. At the time of his death he viewed contemporary trends in photography as
"glorifying the ugly."
Quitslund, Toby.
Arnold Genthe : a pictorialist and
society.
(Exhibit program for the Oakland Museum,
1985).
Hare, Alice Iola, 1859-1926
Born Alice Iola Schnatterly in New Geneva, Pennsylvania, Mrs. Hare married James W. Hare
in 1877. She had four sons, the oldest of whom, John, became a photographer working for
various San Francisco newspapers. Her family moved to Santa Clara, California, in 1895,
and then to Winton in Merced County in 1911. She spent her last few years in Berkeley,
where she died.
Hare was a very active woman who displayed a variety of interests throughout her life.
Between 1895 and 1912 she worked as a amateur photographer, advertising in the business
section of the Santa Clara News. Her photographs were exhibited and published in books,
albums and magazines such as
Camera Craft and
Sunset Magazine.She was a member the Photographers Association of California.
In addition to photography, she was involved in local community work. She helped
establish the Santa Clara Women's Civic Improvement Club and others like it in the area.
She was also interested in local history, as well as improving the appearance of
neighborhoods and the state of education in her community. She produced a number of
papers and articles on these subjects.
At the end of her life Hare worked on her autobiography and wrote several short stories.
Her obituary in the Berkeley Daily Gazette does not mention her photographic activity and
refers to her as "A. Hare, Writer..." The core of Hare's photographic collection,
together with her personal papers, is held by the Bancroft Library. Smaller collections
of photographs can be found in the San Jose Historical Museum, the California Historical
Society, and in the collection of historian Clyde Arbuckle.
Palmquist, Peter E.
Shadowcatchers: A Directory of Women in
California Photography 1900-1920.
(Arcata, Calif., 1991); Henry, Michael.
"Alice Hare: Views of California Beauty" in
Palmquist.
Kuchel & Dresel
A firm of San Francisco lithographers that flourished in the 1850s, made up of Charles
Conrad Kuchel (1820-ca.1865) and Emil Dresel. They were best known for their series
"Kuchel & Dresel's California Views," a group of lithographs depicting the state's
towns and cities. These usually included smaller views of individual buildings or farms
arrayed around the border of the main image. Many of these were printed by the firm of
Britton & Rey.
Charles Kuchel was a native of Zweibrüken, Switzerland. He came to the U.S. in the
1840s, living first in Philadelphia, where he worked for P.S. Duval, and by 1853 he was
located in San Francisco.
Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965
Lange was born in New Jersey in 1895. In New York she worked for photographer Arnold
Genthe and studied under Clarence H. White. She came to California in 1918 and set up a
portrait photography studio in San Francisco, eventually marrying the painter Maynard
Dixon. Outside of her portrait studio, Lange specialized in social documentary
photography, with the goal of social reform through portrayal of human hardship. Her
early work includes photographs of San Francisco's Unemployed Exchange Association,
documenting the state of urban laborers during the Great Depression. She is best know for
her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration, which included now-famous
images of migrant laborers and farm families. These images were published in
An
American Exodus
(1940) a work she produced with her second husband, the
agricultural economist and social reformer Paul Schuster Taylor. During World War II she
photographed the internment of Japanese-Americans by the War Relocation Authority. In
each of these major documentary projects, Lange's sympathetic, candid, and revealing
portraits are emotional expressions of the human side of historical events.
Hart, James D.
A Companion to California. (New York : Oxford University Press, 1978), p. 230;
Santa
Barbara Museum of Art's Watkins to Weston: 101 Years of California Photography.
(Niwot, CO : Roberts Rinehart, 1992), pp. 119-121.
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von, 1774-1852
Born in Wöllstein, Germany, Langsdorff studied in Göttingen with the
anthropologist and naturalist Johann Blumenbach, receiving a medical degree there in
1797. After a journey through Portugal he accompanied Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov on the
Russian expedition to Japan and Alaska in 1806.
In Alaska Rezanov purchased the U.S. ship Juno and set sail for Spanish California. There
the group stayed in the San Francisco presidio and toured the region surrounding the bay.
Langsdorff recorded scenes from the entire voyage in detailed drawings, many of which
were eventually made into engravings that appeared in his
Bemerkungen auf einer
Reise um die Welt
(Observations on a journey around the world, Frankfurt, 1812).
Langsdorff was later named Russian Consul-General at Rio de Janeiro, and there he
participated in an extensive tour of the interior of Brazil.
Hart, James D.
A Companion to California. (New York : Oxford University Press, 1978), p. 230;
Joppien,
Rüdiger.
"Berich über eine sowjetische Konferenz zur Person des
Entdeckers Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff".
(Typescript, Bancroft
Pictorial Collections Artists File).
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
Born Edward James Muggeridge in Kingston-upon-Thames, England, Muybridge came to the U.S.
in the early 1850s and opened a bookstore in San Francisco in 1855. After being seriously
injured in a fall from a stagecoach, he returned to England, where he turned to
photography. He came back to San Francisco in the late 1860s and did photographic work
for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Muybridge achieved great fame through his photographic studies of animal and human
locomotion, published in such works as
Animal locomotion (11 vols., 1887),
and
The human figure in motion (1901). His studies began in 1872 when he
was hired by railroad magnate Leland Stanford to prove that all four hooves of a horse
left the ground during a trot. In the course of these studies he invented devices to trip
the shutters of a series of cameras in order to record animals in motion. He later
developed a viewer called the zoopraxiscope, which allowed runs of motion photographs to
be seen as if moving. These projects are now considered the forunners of modern motion
pictures.
Aside from his motion studies, Muybridge was known for the wide variety of photographs he
took of scenes in California and western North America. These included stereo views of
Alaska, Canada, California cities, Mexico, and Central America. He gained notoriety in
1874 when he murdered his wife's lover and was acquitted of the crime in a much
publicized trial. After a period of exile he returned to San Francisco in 1876, and in
the following two years he produced three massive panoramas of the City taken from Nob
Hill.
Harris, David.
Eadweard Muybridge and the photographic
panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880.
(Montréal : Canadian
Centre for Architecture, c1993); Hart, James D.
A
Companion to California.
(New York : Oxford University Press, 1978),p. 292-293.
Nahl, Charles Christian, 1818-1878
Born in Germany, Nahl came from a family of prominent artists and craftsmen in Kassel.
After moving to Paris in 1846, Nahl's family went to New York in 1849 and to California
in 1850. En route through the Isthmus of Panama, Nahl sketched the scenes he saw along
the way, one of which he used later for the painting "Incident on the Chagres."
He tried his luck in the gold fields but eventually returned to art. He worked in
Sacramento in 1851 and came to San Francisco in 1852. There, in addition to painting, he
went into business in partnership with his half-brother Hugo. The brothers produced
daguerreotypes and photographs and developed a reputation for fine lithography. They also
specialized in souvenir stationary illustrated with pictures of the California mines.
Nahl's style, a result of his training in Germany and Paris, was influenced by the
romanticism then fashionable in Europe. In addition to his California scenes he painted
historical subjects such as "The rape of the Sabine women," a series of three panels now
housed in the M.H. de Young Museum. His mining scenes, especially "Sunday morning in the
mines" (1872), were said to have been an inspiration for the stories of Bret Hart. Over
the years Nahl developed a close association with the Crocker family, and many of his
works were commissioned by Judge E. B. Crocker for his private art gallery.
Neuhaus, Eugen.
Charles Christian Nahl : the painter of
California pioneer life.
(San Francisco, 1937);
Hart,
James D.
A Companion to California.
(New York : Oxford
University Press, 1978).
Narjot, Ernest Etienne, 1826-1898
Born in Brittany, Narjot studied painting in Paris and came to San Francisco via Cape
Horn in 1849. Although he devoted himself to prospecting for gold, he continued to paint.
He went to Mexico with a mining expedition in 1852, and there he met and married his wife
in 1860. Returning to San Francisco in 1865 he set up a studio on Clay Street and began
to paint professionally. His best known works were his illustrations for Albert S.
Evans's
A La California : sketches of life in the golden state (1873), his
"New Year's Festival in Chinatown," and a painting titled "The sacrifice of a Druid
priestess."
While painting the tomb of Leland Stanford, Narjot was allegedly blinded by drops of
paint. He died destitute in a tenement on Vallejo Street in San Francisco. Many of his
paintings were destroyed in the burning of the San Francisco Art Association following
the earthquake of 1906.
Dressler, Albert.
California's pioneer artist : Ernest
Narjot
(pamphlet, 1936).
Rodolph, Frank Bequette, 1843-1923
Rodolph was a commercial photographer active in Oakland during the 1870s and 1880s. Born
in Wisconsin, he and his family travelled overland to California in 1850. They settled
first in Placerville and later operated a ranch on Cache Creek. Moving to Oakland in
1869, Rodolph attended business college and opened a stationary store on Broadway in
partnership with his father. The store also sold school books and sheet music, and in the
1880s Rodolph began doing printing work as well. Many of his photographs were taken on
his extensive travels throughout California.
Based on an autobiographical sketch:
Schlichtmann, Margaret.
Materials concerning Frank B. Rodolph and the Rodolph family,
[ca.1967-1968].
(Manuscript collection in The Bancroft
Library).
Taber, Isaiah West, 1830-1912
Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Taber went to sea when he was fifteen and worked on
whaling ships in the North Pacific. He came to California in the gold rush and, after
brief careers in shipping, mining, and farming, returned to New Bedford and became a
dentist. He soon turned to photography, however, opening a gallery in Syracuse, New York,
and finally going back to California in 1864 at the inducement of the photographers
Bradley and Rulofson. He worked for them until 1871, when he opened his own gallery on
Montgomery Street. His highly successful business was well-known for portraiture and a
vast stock of California and Western views --many of which were the unacknowledged works
of other photographers. His career ended in 1906 when his entire collection of glass
plates, view negatives and portraits on glass were destroyed in the San Francisco
earthquake and fire.
Hart, James D.
A Companion to California (New York : Oxford University Press, 1978), p. 439; Murray, W.
H.
The builders of a great city : San Francisco's representative men...(San Francisco : The Journal, 1891), p. 329-330.
Vance, Robert H., 1825-1876
A pioneering California photographer, Vance came from a prominent family in Maine and
opened his first studio in Boston at age 19. He came to California via Cape Horn in 1851,
and in San Francisco he established a successful portrait gallery. Later that year he
recorded two of the city's devastating fires, and these and other images he brought to
New York City for an exhibition titled "Views in California." Back in San Francisco,
Vance set up an elaborate two-story gallery and studio at Montgomery and Sacramento
Streets. In 1858 and 1859 he sent his partner Charles Weed into the field to document
mining scenes on the American River and the scenery of Yosemite. It was through Vance
that Carleton E. Watkins received his first training.
By 1860 Vance had expanded his operations as far as Hong Kong, but losses from mining
investments forced him to sell his San Francisco studio to the firm of Bradley &
Rulofson. After operating another studio in Nevada he went to New York City and became a
mining broker.
Palmquist, Peter E.
Robert Vance : pioneer in Western
landscape photography.
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Throughout his long and eventful life Carleton Watkins created a massive photographic
record of California and the western U.S. He was born in Oneonta, New York, and there, in
his youth, he met Collis P. Huntington, then a tin peddler. The two came to California
during the Gold Rush and continued a life-long friendship that survived their divergent
fortunes.
Watkins' career in photography began when he met the San Francisco daguerreotypist R. H.
Vance, who gave Watkins a job and taught him the rudiments of the trade. Watkins then
opened his own studio in San Francisco in the late 1850s. In 1861 he travelled to
Yosemite and made a series of photographs using a mammoth-plate camera. These began his
long association with the Valley and earned him international recognition. His Yosemite
work would later be instrumental in helping to preserve the area as a national park.
In 1871 Watkins opened his Yosemite Art Gallery on Montgomery Street in San Francisco.
Throughout the next two decades his activities multiplied, although his financial
situation was severely weakened by the depression of the mid-1870s. His extensive travels
throughout the West resulted in many celebrated series of photographs, including images
of Oregon, the California missions, Southern California agriculture, the route of the
Southern Pacific Railroad, the interiors of Montana copper mines, Yellowstone Park, and
panoramas of Western towns like Virginia City.
Beginning in the early 1890s Watkins's health began to deteriorate along with his
economic well-being. Nearly blind and impoverished in the mid-90s, he was helped somewhat
by the generosity of his friend Huntington, by then a multi-millionaire. A great blow
came in 1906 when Watkins's equipment and his entire stock of valuable prints were
destroyed in the fire following the San Francisco earthquake. The shock precipitated his
mental breakdown, and he was finally sent by his family to the state hospital in Napa,
where he died in 1916.
Johnson, J. W.
C. E. Watkins : pioneer Pacific Coast
photographer.
(Typescript [carbon] in The Bancroft
Library).
Afro American Posters, Greeting Cards, and Portraits--James de T. Abajian BANC PIC 1982.034-.036
Note
Physical Description: ca. 260 items (posters, greeting cards, and portraits)
Additional Note
James Abajian, former librarian of the California Historical Society and author in the
field of African American history, has presented significant documentary material on
African Americans to The Bancroft Library. His gifts include books, printed ephemera,
manuscripts, sheet music, periodicals and photographs which he collected in the course of
his own research on African Americans in California and the West. Pictorial material in
the collection includes 19th century daguerreotypes and tintypes, early postcards and
greeting cards portraying black stereotypes, and photographs and posters documenting
African American history through the early
1970's. Manuscript material is
accessioned under BANC MSS 86/213 c and BANC MSS 86/206 c
Alice Iola Hare Photograph Collection BANC PIC 1905.04663-05242
Note
Physical Description: 575 items
Additional Note
The Hare collection contains 575 silver gelatin prints, taken by Mrs. Hare circa
1900-1910. Most of the photographs were taken in and around the Santa Clara Valley region
of Northern California, especially in the vicinities of Santa Clara and San Jose. Other
areas featured in the collection are Saratoga, Los Gatos, the Santa Cruz Mountains, Big
Basin Park, San Francisco, Monterey, Palo Alto, Sonoma County, Lake County, and Pebble
Beach. The subject matter of Mrs. Hare's work is diverse, including gardens, gardening
and botany, architecture, streets and roadways; parks, landscapes, and other scenes of
nature; agriculture and industry, travel and recreation, and the local Chinese, Spanish
and native Californian cultures of the time.
Art by Daniel Moore and Photographs of the Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company BANC PIC 1973.028
Note
Physical Description: 256 items (paintings, drawings and photographic prints)
Additional Note
The Bancroft Library's Daniel Moore Collection consists of manuscripts, typescripts,
audio and video recordings, published works, drawings, and photographs documenting the
literary and artistic career of this San Francisco Bay Area poet. Moore is best known for
his "Dawn Visions", published by City Lights in
1962 , and for his "Floating
Lotus Magic Opera Company" of the late
1960's . In his own words (as quoted
by Ferlinghetti and Peters in Literary San Francisco), the company was created "for
visceral manifestation and expansion of poetic vision for human figures and real voices
and orchestra, torchlighting nights open with the dance-rhythm'd Word." The majority of
the photographic portion of the Moore Collecti on documents the theatrical
productions of the company. Non-pictorial material can be found in BANC MSS 73/63 c.
Based on Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Nancy Peters, Literary San Francisco (San Francisco:
City Lights Books, 1980), p. 197.
C. Hart Merriam Collection BANC PIC 1978.008
Note
Physical Description: 4,462 items
Additional Note
The C. Hart Merriam (
1855-1942 ) collection of manuscripts and photographs
contains detailed records of Merriam's work as a scientist, explorer and administrator.
As one of the most distinguished naturalists of his generation, Merriam founded the U.S.
Biological Survey and co-founded the National Geographic Society. He participated in many
important field expeditions and served as the scientific director of the Harriman Alaska
Expedition in 1899. The photographs from this trip are impressive; along with Merriam's
own photographs, the collection contains a large body of work by Edward S. Curtis, who
was the official photographer for the expedition. In
1910 , Merriam began
work under a trust fund set up by Mrs. E. H. Harriman which allowed him to focus his
energy on biological and ethnological studies in the West. He set out to record the
vocabularies of vanishing Indian tribes in California and he used photography as one way
of documenting the people and places he visited. Other accession numbers for C. Hart
Merriam material are BANC MSS 80/18 c, BANC MSS 83/129 c and BANC PIC 1980.023.
Charles L. Camp Collection of Stereographs BANC PIC 1905.16269-16449
Note
Physical Description: 181 photographic prints
Additional Note
A native of North Dakota, paleontologist Charles L. Camp (1893-1975) was educated at the
University of California (A.B. 1915) and Columbia University (A.M. 1916, PhD.
1923). After serving with the U.S. forces in World War I he became a professor of
paleontology at the University of California. In
1931 he was chosen as
director of the university's Museum of Paleontology. Aside from his academic interests in
early reptiles and amphibians, he studied and wrote on the history of the Western U.S.
BANC MSS C-B 862 contains correspondence and papers relating primarily to his historical
research on California and the West, his association with the California Historical
Society and E Clampus Vitus. Additional material concerns his career as a paleontologist
at U.C. Berkeley and his experiences in World War I. Includes research material on Kit
Carson and James Clyman. Correspondents include Charles and Edward Eberstadt, Carl I.
Wheat, and Henry Raup Wagner. BANC MSS 73/178 c contains correspondence, course notes,
manuscripts, and subject file concerning his interest and activity with paleontology,
zoology, and the U.C. Berkeley Department of Paleontology. Includes notes and copies of
lectures and publications by Camp, many on paleontology of California and the American
Southwest.
Early San Francisco Views--T.E. Hecht BANC PIC 1905.06999-.07772
Note
Physical Description: ca. 670 photographic prints, 700 glass negatives, 300 film negatives,
and 600 transparencies
Additional Note
The Bancroft Library's collection of photographs by San Francisco photographer T.E. Hecht
consists of 772 glass and film negatives from which viewing prints have been made. The
collection contains views of San Francisco and environs between ca. 1900 and 1920, and
copy views made by Hecht after earlier photographers such as George Fardon.
Farm Security Administration Photograph Collection BANC PIC 1942.008
Note
Physical Description: 8 boxes (ca. 960 photographic prints)
Additional Note
United States, Farm Security Administration, Regional Office I, San Francisco records,
1936-1946 . The eight cartons of letters, publications, publicity material
& pictures relating to the Farm Security Administration's program in Region I
(California, Arizona, Utah & Nevada) document the economic and demographic upheavals
of the Great Depression and dust bowl migration. Later material concerning evacuation of
Japanese Americans from the West Coast and anchoring programs in migrant source states is
also included (see BANC MSS C-R 1).
The photographic portion of the collection consists of images documenting drought
conditions in the Midwest and South, living conditions of migrants, migrant agricultural
workers in the West, FSA Migratory Labor Camps, Farm Associations, other FSA programs,
and Resettlement Administration activities. Images date from the mid-1930's to the
evacuation of Japanese Americans during World War II, and include work by Dorothea Lange.
Frank B. Rodolph Photograph Collection BANC PIC 1905.17146-.17161
Note
Physical Description: 16 albums (1254 photographic prints)
Additional Note
The Frank B. Rodolph Collection consists of approximately 875 original photographs taken
by Rodolph (an Oakland photographer), and his associates. It was presented to The
Bancroft Library by California historian Margaret Schlictmann, who engaged in
considerable research to identify the majority of the images. The photographs are
remarkable in their candid, often humorous view of life in Northern California in the
1880's. Included are street scenes in Oakland and San Francisco, as well as many outings
by a local group calling itself the "Merry Tramps." Their excursions resulted in many
images of camping trips in the redwoods, picnics on the coast, and other recreational
gatherings. Also present are several views showing amateur photographers at work.
Historic buildings, photographed before modern restoration was undertaken, also feature
prominently. Photographs by other photographers, such as Isaiah West Taber, are included.
Free Speech Movement Photographs UARC PIC 24B
Note
Physical Description: ca. 25 photographic prints
Additional Note
Includes photographs of rallies, speakers and crowds, etc.
George E. Hyde & Co. Canning Operations BANC PIC 1982.069
Note
Physical Description: 1 album (17 photographic prints and 11 printed product labels)
Additional Note
This album contains 17 photoprints illustrating the 1920-1921 operations and facilities
of the Hyde canning plant in Campbell, Santa Clara County. The album also contains
several sample fruit labels from the factory.
Hearst Mining Collection of Views by C.E. Watkins BANC PIC 1905.17175
Note
Physical Description: 150 photographic prints on mounts
Additional Note
The Hearst Mining Collection consists of 139 original large-format photoprints by San
Francisco photographer Carleton E. Watkins, and eleven early 20th century copy
enlargements of other California views by Watkins. For many years before their transfer
to The Bancroft Library in 1972, these important photographs were housed in the Hearst
Mining Building of U.C. Berkeley. The original 139 "mammoth plates" depicting mining
operations in California and Nevada are believed to have been acquired by the Hearst
family in the 1870's or 1880's, soon after their creation. This is among the many
collections of Watkins photographs held by The Bancroft Library, a major repository of
the works of this important California photographer.
Henry J. Kaiser Pictorial Collection BANC PIC 1983.001-.075
Note
Physical Description: ca. 75,000 items (photographic prints, negatives, and albums)
Additional Note
The papers of Henry J.Kaiser (BANC MSS 83/42 c), Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. (BANC MSS 88/205)
and Edgar F. Kaiser (BANC MSS 85/61), together with their associated photograph
collections, document the activities of the Kaiser family and their many industrial and
business interests in California, Hawaii, and the world. Materials date from the 1870's
into the 1980's. These collections provide an excellent record of the industrial
development of California and the West in the 20th century. The photographic collections
provide images of the Kaiser family and the operations of Kaiser Steel, Kaiser Metals,
Kaiser Sand and Gravel, Kaiser Shipyards, Kaiser Hospitals, and many other Kaiser
concerns. Examples of prominent projects pictured are the construction of Hoover and
Shasta Dams, operations of the Richmond Shipyards, and aircraft production.
Historic Photographs of California and the Southwest from the Francis P. Farquhar Collection BANC PIC 1905.16896
Note
Physical Description: 68 photographic prints; albumen and b&w
Additional Note
Francis P. Farquhar (
1887-1974 ) was a conservationist, mountaineer,
historian, and the author of numerous books and articles on the history of the Sierra
Nevada and the American West. The collection of his personal papers, BANC MSS C-B 517,
reflects his active involvement with the Sierra Club, the California Historical Society,
the California Academy of Sciences, and other organizations with an historical or
geographical emphasis. His collection of photographs includes personal photographs, many
related to the Sierra Club, and historical photographs of California and the Southwest.
James D. McClure Photograph Collection of Historic Western Landmarks BANC PIC 1905.03378-.03885
Note
Physical Description: ca. 520 photographic prints
Additional Note
Photographs by James McClure and other unidentified photographers of the San Francisco
Chronicle primarily of locations including: Weaverville, Bodie, Mare Island, Berkeley,
Petaluma, Columbia, Downieville, Fort Ross, San Francisco, Monterey, Palo Alto (Stanford
Univ.), Sutter's Fort, Yosemite National Park, Oakland, and others.
Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks Dance Collection BANC PIC 1964.009-.024
Note
Physical Description: ca. 2,000 drawings, paintings, and photographs, and items of memorabilia
Additional Note
The manuscript (BANC MSS 72/156 c) and pictorial collections of Joseph Rous
Paget-Fredericks are a wonderful source for the study of 20th century dance. A writer,
dancer, and artist, Paget-Fredericks' personal papers contain a wealth of information,
images and memorabilia related to such artists as Isadora Duncan, Anna Pavlova, Vaslav
Nijinsky, and Ruth St. Denis. The pictorial portions of the collection consist largely of
Paget-Fredericks' own sketches of these dancers and others, as well as figure studies,
costume and fashion designs, illustrations, paintings, and photographs. Also present are
14 portraits by celebrated San Francisco photographer Arnold Genthe.
Oakland Municipal Airport and Other Aviation Related Views BANC PIC 1991.034
Note
Physical Description: 1 album (ca. 600 photographick prints) and 86 loose items
Additional Note
Views of aircraft dating from 1912 through the 1930's, primarily in Oakland, California.
Also includes views of other Bay Area locations and events, such as the U.S. S.
Constitution in San Francisco and the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges under construction.
Clippings and ephemera relating to air shows and various aviators are also present. Some
photos and letters related to Frank [Francis] J. Riley or his family.
Panorama of San Francisco from California Street Hill--Eadward Muybridge BANC PIC 1946.011
Note
Physical Description: 12 mounted photographic prints (forming 1 panorama)
Additional Note
Views taken from the roof of the Mark Hopkins mansion on Nob Hill.
Photographs of California Highways--State of California Department of Public Works, Division of Highways BANC PIC 19xx.165
Note
Physical Description: 46 photographic prints
Additional Note
This collection of 46 copy photoprints, made from negatives held by the California
Department of Public Work's Division of Highways, date from
1958-1966. They picture freeways and highways throughout the state, as well some images of
road conditions prior to improvements and the creation of modern highways.
Portrait File of The Bancroft Library BANC PIC 1905.00002
Note
Physical Description: ca. 100 linear ft.
Additional Note
Portraits of identified individuals and groups. Includes photographs, drawings, and
prints primarily of individuals and families associated with the history of the San
Francisco Bay Area, California, and the American West
Robert B. Honeyman, Jr., Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material BANC PIC 1963.002
Note
Physical Description: 1,737 items (paintings, drawings, lithographs, engravings, etchings,
pictorial lettersheets, photographic prints, etc.
Additional Note
The Robert B. Honeyman Collection was acquired by the Bancroft Library in 1963. It
consists of original paintings, drawings, lithographs, engravings, photographs, pictorial
letter sheets and a wide variety of other pictorial ephemera collected by Robert B.
Honeyman, Jr. The collection contains original works by some of the most notable artists
of the American West, Including Albert Bierstadt, Maynard Dixon, Charles Nahl, Thomas
Hill, and William Keith. Consisting of more than 1,800 items, it is an unparalleled
source for images of 19th century California and the West.
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Photographs--The Miles Brothers BANC PIC 19xx.181
Note
Physical Description: 43 photographic negatives
Additional Note
The Miles Brothers Collection consists of forty-four copy photoprints of scenes of the
damage caused by the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. The images were takes by
Miles Brothers, San Francisco photographers in business at 790 Turk St
Scenic California--C.E. Watkins BANC PIC 1965.008
Note
Physical Description: 14 photographic prints
Additional Note
Photographs taken by Carleton E. Watkins. Includes views of Yosemite, San Francisco
buildings (interior of the Palace Hotel, the new City Hall, Cliff House, etc.), the
Golden Gate, Seal Rock, picnicking in the redwoods along the Russian river, Santa Cruz,
Camp Capitola, etc.
Sierra Club Collections BANC PIC 1971.031
Note
Physical Description: ca. 300 albums
Additional Note
The Sierra Club collections of The Bancroft Library consist of manuscript and
photographic materials documenting the growth of this environmental organization from its
inception in 1892 through the 1980's. They consist of official records of the
organization as well as personal papers and photographs of active members. The
photographic collections contain over 44,500 images recording early Club outings to the
Sierra Nevada and other wilderness areas, and Club activities of all descriptions.
Included are photographs used in Sierra Club publications, and the work of many
significant photographers including Ansel Adams and Cedric Wright. Manuscript materials
are accessioned under BANC MSS 71/103 c and BANC MSS 71/295.
Sierra Nevada Views--George Fiske BANC PIC 1905.02298-.02345
Note
Physical Description: 48 photographic prints
Additional Note
This Collection of George Fiske's views of Yosemite was presented to The Bancroft Library
by Charles Gregory Crampton, professor of history at the University of Utah. Crampton was
employed by the library in the late 1930's to seek out and acquire historical documents
on behalf of The Bancroft Library, and in later years continued to contribute to the
collections through gifts of various material.
Views of Some of the Buildings of the California Wine Association BANC PIC 1932.003
Note
Physical Description: 1 album (25 photoprints)
Additional Note
The photo album of the California Wine Association contains 25 photoprints depicting wine
making facilities and operations in the Napa Valley region of California, ca.
1898. Views include the wine making operations of C. Carpy & Co., with
illustrations of all aspects of process at the Greystone Winery. The Uncle Sam Cellar and
Brown St. Cellar in Napa City are also pictured.
War Relocation Authority Photographs BANC PIC 1967.014
Note
Physical Description: 38 boxes (ca. 5,000 photographic prints)
Additional Note
Japanese-American evacuation and resettlement records. [ca. 1941-1953] Primarily surplus
copies of U.S. War Relocation Authority documents (including publications, staff papers,
reports, correspondence, memoranda, press releases, photographs, films, etc.) and
material collected and/or generated by the Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
Study, University of California, Berkeley (including evacuee diaries and letters, staff
correspondence, reports and studies prepared by the staff, etc.). Includes records and
publications of the California Joint Immigration Committee. Manuscript material consists
of 256 cartons, 5 boxes, 31 volumes and 1 oversize folder and can be found under the call
number BANC MSS 67/14 c. The Photographic portion of this collection consists of 76
binders of photoprints arranged by evacuation center, subject, and then by original War
Relocation Authority number. An additional 15 linear feet of material awaits arrangement.
These images provide a rich source of documentation for the study of the evacuation and
resettlement of Japanese-Americans during the second world war. Of particular note are
the photographs of Dorothea Lange, who was one of the many photographers employed by the
War Relocation Authority.
William C. Barry Collection of Los Angeles Area Photographs BANC PIC 1964.056
Note
Physical Description: 74 photoprints
Additional Note
The William C. Barry Collection consists of seventy-four photoprints dating from ca.
1886-1910. Views of various modes of transportation in Southern California predominate.
Images include Los Angeles street scenes picturing horse-drawn, cable, and electric cars.
There are also views in San Diego, Santa Barbara, Redlands, Riverside, San Pedro,
Catalina Island, and Tiajuana, Mexico. The work of various photographers is represented.
The original album was presented to The Bancroft Library by William C. Barry of Glendale,
California in 1963. Mr. Barry acquired the album from a friend who had purchased it from
an unknown source.
Wyland Stanley Collection BANC PIC 1905.05278
Note
Physical Description: 328 photoprints
Additional Note
The Wyland Stanley Collection consists of 328 copy photoprints of historic San Francisco
and Oakland views. Stanley made the copy prints from original early engravings,
lithographs and photographs. Included are some of the earliest depictions of San
Francisco, as well as copies of the works of some of the cities most prominent
photographers of the 19th century.
Zelda Mackay Pictorial Collection BANC PIC 1905.16242
Note
Physical Description: 191 photographic prints
Additional Note
The Mackay Collection is one of the richest sources of early San Francisco views and
portraits. In addition to numerous important views of mining operations and California
pioneers of the 1850's, the collection contains what may be the earliest surviving
photograph of San Francisco: a daguerreotype taken by William Shew in the early 1850's.
Single Items From Various Collections
Note
Additional Note
A sampling of photographic prints from various collections in The Bancroft Library
Pictorial Collection.
F786 .B275
Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, connected with the
United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53.
Creator/Collector: Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
Note
Physical Description: 2 v. New York, London, D. Appleton & Company, 1854.
G440 .B48
Voyage autour du monde, principalement à la Californie et aux îles Sandwich, pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, et 1829.
Creator/Collector: Bernard du Hautcilly, Auguste, 1790-1849
Note
Physical Description: 2 v. Paris, A. Bertrand; [etc., etc.] 1834-35.
Additional Note
Auguste Bernard du Hautcilly, Captain of the French ship Hero, published in 1834 an
account of his voyage around the world. His narrative focuses on his observations of
California and the Sandwich Islands, which he visited in 1827.
F786 .B88
Reisen und Abenteuer im Apachenlande.
Creator/Collector: Browne, J. Ross (John Ross), 1821-1875
Note
Physical Description: 486 p. Jena, H. Costenoble, 1871.
Additional Note
Adventures in the Apache country. German. Bibliothek geographischer Reisen und
Entdeckungen.
xF851 .D85
Exploration du territoire de l'Orégon, des Californies et de la mer Vermeille, exécutée pendant les années 1840, 1841 et 1842.
Creator/Collector: Duflot de Mofras, M., 1810-1884
Note
Physical Description: 2 v. and atlas. Paris, A. Bertrand, 1844.
Additional Note
Duflot de Mofras' Exploration du Territoire de l'Orégon, des Californies et de la
Mer Vermeille, published in 1844, is a detailed account of French exploratory expeditions
of 1840-1842. These expeditions were intended to provide the French government with
detailed geographic, political, social, and commercial information about the Pacific
Coast of North America in order to facilitate the possible establishment of French
interests in the region. The detailed text and illustrations provide invaluable
information for historians of early California.
xE51 .C76 v.3
Tribes of California.
Creator/Collector: Powers, Stephen
Note
Physical Description: 1 v. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1877.
Additional Note
This publication documents and illustrates the U. S. Geographical and Geological Survey
of the Rocky Mountain Region conducted by the Department of the Interior and lead by J.W.
Powell. Contents include descriptions of the following native American tribes: The
Karok--Karok fables--The Yurok--The Tolowa--The Hupa--Tribes tributary to the Hupa--The
Patawat--The Viard--The Mattoal--The Wailakki--The Yuki--The Tatu--The Pomo--The
Yokaia--The Gallinomero--The Gualala--The Ashochimi--The Kabinapek--The Makhelchel--The
Patwin--The Wintun--The Shastika--The Modok--The Achomawi--The Nozi, etc.--The Maidu--The
Nichinam--The Miwok--Yosemite--The Yokuts--Tribes related to the Paiuti--General
facts--Aboriginal botany--Supplementary facts--Appendix: Linguistics, ed. by J.W. Powell
xF865 .R4
A tour of duty in California.
Creator/Collector: Revere, Joseph W. (Joseph Warren), 1812-1880
Note
Physical Description: New York, C.S. Francis & Co.; Boston, J.H. Francis, 1849.
xF786 .U45
Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey, made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior.
Creator/Collector: United States. Dept. of the Interior
Note
Physical Description: 2 v. in 3. Washington, C. Wendell, printer, 1857-59.
Afro American posters, greeting cards, and portraits collected by
James de T. Abajian
1982.035
Maya Angelou and Cecil Williams at Glide Memorial Church, Sunday, July 14, 1974.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
African-Americans
San Francisco
1985.079-AX
Newton trial 2nd day [members of the Black Panther Party], July 16,1968.
Photographer/Artist: Peterson, Garney
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
African-Americans
Oakland
Black Panther Party
Alice Iola Hare Photograph Collection
Note
View the Alice Iola Hare photograph
collection finding aid
1905.04953
Olive picking on the Quito Ranch.
Photographer/Artist:
Hare, Alice Iola
Original: Albumen (?) print
Subjects/Genres:
Agriculture
Chinese Americans
Quito Ranch
1905.04978
Threshing onion seed on seed ranch of W. J. Fosgate, Santa Clara, California.
Photographer/Artist:
Hare, Alice Iola
Original: Albumen
(?) print
Subjects/Genres:
Agriculture
Santa Clara
1905.05008
Boys with cotton sacks.
Photographer/Artist:
Hare, Alice Iola
Original: Photoprint (in Accopress)
Subjects/Genres:
Agriculture
1905.05228
Padre in mission garden (possibly Mission Santa Barbara)
Photographer/Artist:
Hare, Alice Iola
Original: Albumen
(?) print
Subjects/Genres:
Missions
Santa Barbara Portraits
Art by Daniel Moore and Photographs of the Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company
1973.028.139
Floating Lotus Magic Opera Co. [probably a production of "Bliss Apocalypse," Berkeley,
[1969].
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint, color
Subjects/Genres:
Arts
Floating Lotus Magic Opera Co.
C. Hart Merriam Collection
1978.008 303:2 Box 5, Folder 22
Native Americans -- old Chuk-chan'-sy tribe...,
1902 Sept. 22.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Native Americans
1978.008 519:29 Box 9, Folder 40
Salmon fishing on Deer Creek [Ishi],
May, 1914.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Native Americans
Deer Creek
Ishi
Portraits
Waterscapes
Charles L. Camp Collection of Stereographs
Note
View the Charles L. Camp collection
finding aid
1905.16274-STER
Father of the forest, 112 feet -- entrance to the Horseback Ride, Mammoth Grove
[ca.1870-1880].
Photographer/Artist:
Houseworth, Thomas
Original: Stereo
Subjects/Genres:
National and state parks
Calaveras County
Early San Francisco Views--
T. E. Hecht
1905.07141
View from Steamboat point, 1870.
Photographer/Artist:
Hecht, T.E.
Original: Positive transparency (lg. format)
Subjects/Genres:
San Francisco history
Shipping
Transportation
Waterscapes
1905.07335
Cable cars at Ferry Building, San Francisco.
Photographer/Artist:
Hecht, T.E.
Original: Neg., large format copy
Subjects/Genres:
San Francisco history
Transportation
San Francisco
Cityscapes
Farm Security Administration Photograph Collection
1942.008 Folder 101 #2464E
Migrant family of Mexicans on the road with car trouble,
February, 1936.
Photographer/Artist:
Lange, Dorothea
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Mexican Americans
Agriculture
Labor
1942.008 Folder 102, Part 2 #16439E
Migratory Mexican field worker's home,
March, 1937.
Photographer/Artist:
Lange, Dorothea
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Mexican Americans
Agriculture
Labor
Imperial Valley
1942.008 Folder 102, Part 2 #1811C
Home of Oklahoma drought refugees, February, 1936.
Photographer/Artist:
Lange, Dorothea
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Labor
Agriculture
Bakersfield
1942.008 Folder 102, Part 2 #9665E
Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping, mother feeding child, August, 1936.
Photographer/Artist: Lange, Dorothea
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Women
Labor
Portraits
Frank B. Rodolph Photograph Collection
Note
View the Frank B. Rodolph
collection finding aid
1905.17147 (34)-NEG
Washington St., Oakland, Calif. [ca. 1880-1885].
Photographer/Artist:
Rodolph, Frank Bequette
Original: Albumen
(?) print
Subjects/Genres:
Oakland
Cityscapes
1905.17149 (45)
Tennis players [possibly Oakland, . [ca. 1880-1885].
Photographer/Artist:
Rodolph, Frank Bequette
Original: Albumen (?) print
Subjects/Genres:
Leisure
1905.17152 (69)
Picnickers on the beach, ca. 1880.
Photographer/Artist:
Rodolph, Frank Bequette
Original: Albumen (?) print
Subjects/Genres:
Leisure
San Francisco Bay Area (?)
1905.17155 (18)
Palmer & Rey Type Foundry, ca. 1880-1885.
Photographer/Artist:
Rodolph, Frank Bequette
Original: Albumen
(?) print
Subjects/Genres:
Labor
Industry
Palmer & Rey Type Foundry
1905.17158.3
Chinese Americans in redwoods.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Albumen (?) print
Subjects/Genres:
Chinese-Americans
Labor
1905.17159 (62)
World's Fair Big Tree, ca. 1892.
Photographer/Artist:
Taber, I. West
Original: Albumen (?) print (2 items)
Subjects/Genres:
Lumbering
National and state parks
1905.17159 (63)
World's Fair Big Tree, ca. 1892.
Photographer/Artist:
Taber, I. West
Original: Albumen (?) print (2 items)
Subjects/Genres:
Lumbering
National and state parks
Free Speech Movement Photographs
UARC Pic file 24B:6
Group carrying "Free Speech" banner through Sather Gate [ca. 1965].
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Politics and government
Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
George E. Hyde & Co. Canning Operations
Note
View the George E. Hyde & Co.
collection finding aid
1982.069-ALB
Women cannery workers, 1920.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint (in album)
Subjects/Genres:
Industry
Santa Clara Valley
George E. Hyde & Co.
Hearst Mining Collection of Views--C.E. Watkins
Note
View the Hearst Mining
collection finding aid
1905.17175.99
Malakoff Diggings.
Photographer/Artist:
Watkins, Carleton E.
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Mining
Environment
Malakoff Diggings
Henry J. Kaiser Pictorial Collection
1983.018.25
Many small machine tools are repaired by women [portrait of a Kaiser worker, ca. 1945].
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Women
Labor
Shipping
World War II
Kaiser Industries
Portraits
1983.018.38
Kaiser women workers' basketball team, ca. 1945.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Women
Labor
World War II
Shipping
Leisure
Kaiser Industries
Historic Photographs of California and the Southwest from the
Francis Farquhar Collection
1905.16896 (16)
Wawona, Mariposa Grove [ca. 1880-1890].
Photographer/Artist:
Blanchard, J.B.
Original: Albumen (?) print
Subjects/Genres:
Leisure
National and state parks
Mariposa Grove
1905.16896 (47)
On the beach at Camp Capitola, 1885.
Photographer/Artist: Watkins, Carleton E.
Original: Albumen (?) print
Subjects/Genres:
Leisure
Santa Barbara
Capitola
James D. McClure Photograph Collection of Historic Western Landmarks
1905.03421-NEG
Steam train, Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, ca. 1890.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint, 4X5 (in Accopress)
Subjects/Genres:
Railroads
Berkeley
Shattuck Ave, Berkeley
Cityscapes
1905.03635
Yosemite Valley Upper & Lower Yosemite Falls & Merced River.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint, Black and White
Subjects/Genres:
National and state parks
Women
Yosemite
Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks Dance Collection
Note
View the Joseph Rous
Paget-Fredericks collection finding aid
1964.023.649-B
Isadora Duncan.
Photographer/Artist:
Genthe, Arnold
Original: Photoprint, Black and White;
Subjects/Genres:
Modern Dance
Choreographers
Women
Duncan, Isadora
Portraits
Oakland Municipal Airport and Other Aviation Related Views
1991.034-ALB
Allinio Aircraft [group with plane at El Cerrito].
Photographer/Artist: Cohen,
M.L.
Original: Photoprint (in album)
Subjects/Genres:
Industry
Transportation
El Cerrito
Panorama of San Francisco from California Street Hill--Eadward Muybridge
1946.011-ALB
Nob Hill mansions, San Francisco, 1877.
Photographer/Artist: Muybridge, Eadweard
Original: Photoprint (in published book)
Subjects/Genres:
San Francisco history
Estates
San Francisco
Panoramic views
Cityscapes
Photographs of California Highways--State of California Department of Public Works, Division of Highways.
19xx.165
Freeway [possibly Interstate 10], Los Angeles,
December 18, 1964.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Los Angeles area
Transportation
Los Angeles
Cityscapes Aerial photographs
Portrait File of The Bancroft Library
1905.00002 Adams, Ansel
Ansel Adams.
Photographer/Artist: Grainey, Ed
Original: Photoprint, Black and
White;
Subjects/Genres:
Arts
Adams, Ansel
Portraits
1905.00002 Afro-American Council-1
Afro-American Council, 13th annual meeting, Oakland, 1907.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Albumen (?) print
Subjects/Genres:
African-Americans
Oakland
Portraits
1905.00002 Bancroft, Hubert Howe-1
Hubert Howe Bancroft, ca. 1852.
Photographer/Artist: Vance, Robert H.
Original: Cabinet card
Subjects/Genres:
Arts
Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Portraits
1905.00002 Brown, Edmund G.-113
Edmund G. (Pat) Brown and Desi Arnaz in Palm Springs.
Photographer/Artist: Anderson
Original: Photoprint, Black and White;
Subjects/Genres:
Politics and government
Palm Springs
Brown, Edmund G. (Pat)
Arnaz, Desi
Portraits
1905.00002 Chinese-38
Chinese girl with bound feet.
Photographer/Artist: Taber, I. West
Original: Albumen (?) print
Subjects/Genres:
Chinese-Americans
Portraits
1905.00002 Chinese-39
Chinese butcher and grocery shop, Chinatown, San Francisco.
Photographer/Artist: Taber,
I. West
Original: Albumen (?) print
Subjects/Genres:
Chinese-Americans
Business
Portraits
1905.00002 Didion, Joan-1
Joan Didion.
Photographer/Artist: Dunne, Dominick
Original: Photoprint, Black
and White;
Subjects/Genres:
Women
Arts
Didion, Joan
Portraits
1905.00002 London, Jack-65
Jack London and George Sterling.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint, Black and White;
Subjects/Genres:
Leisure
Arts
London, Jack
Sterling, George
Portraits
1905.00002 Muir, John-65
Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Glacier Point, 1903.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint, Black and White;
Subjects/Genres:
environment
National and state parks
Glacier Point
Roosevelt, Theodore
Muir, John
Portraits
1905.00002 Pleasant, Mary Ellen-1
Mary Ellen (Mammy) Pleasant at 87 years of age.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint, Black and White;
Subjects/Genres:
Women
African Americans
San Francisco history
San Francisco
Portraits
1905.00002 Steinbeck, John-31
New straw hats [John Steinbeck and family, 1945].
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint, Black and White;
Subjects/Genres:
Arts
Steinbeck, John
Portraits
Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
1963.002.1023 ff-ALB
Ein tanz der Indianauer in der Mission in St. Jose in Neu-Californien, ca. 1806.
Photographer/Artist: Langsdorff, G.H. von
Original: Brush drawing
Subjects/Genres:
Missions
Native Americans
San Jose
1963.002.1306-FR
View taken near Monterrey.
Photographer/Artist: Beecher, Richard B.;
Blossom, M.S.
Original: Watercolor
over pencil
Subjects/Genres:
Missions
Spanish and Mexican California
Monterey
Panoramic views
1963.002.1312-FR
Danse des Californiens [at San Francisco, from a drawing ca. 1815].
Photographer/Artist:
Choris, Louis
Original: Watercolor
over pencil
Subjects/Genres:
Native Americans
Missions
San Francisco history
Spanish and Mexican California
1963.002.1321-FR
Joaquin Murieta, 1859.
Photographer/Artist:
Nahl, Charles C.
Original: Brush drawing w/ watercolor
Subjects/Genres:
Mexican Americans
Spanish and Mexican California
Transportation
Murieta, Joaquin
Portraits
1963.002.1350-FR
Native Californians lassoing a steer.
Photographer/Artist:
Ferra, Auguste
Original: Oil painting
Subjects/Genres:
Agriculture
Mexican Americans
Spanish and Mexican California
1963.002.1360-FR
Blessing of the Enrequita Mine.
Photographer/Artist:
Edouart, Alexander
Original: Oil painting
Subjects/Genres:
Mining
Spanish and Mexican California
1963.002.1377-FR
Days of gold.
Photographer/Artist:
Narjot, Ernest Etienne
Original: Painting, oil
Subjects/Genres:
Gold rush
1963.002.1380-FR
The Elopement.
Photographer/Artist:
Nahl, Charles C.
Original: Oil painting
Subjects/Genres:
Mexican Americans
Spanish and Mexican California
Transportation
1963.002.1399-AX
Mongolian miners working.
Photographer/Artist:
Storqueler, B.
Original: Pen and ink drawing
Subjects/Genres:
Mining
Chinese Americans
1963.002.1457-D
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Cal., 1857.
Photographer/Artist:
Kuchel & Dresel
Original: Lithograph
Subjects/Genres:
Los Angeles area
Business
Los Angeles
Hellman & Bro.
Britten & Rey
Bird's-eye views
Cityscapes
1963.002.1476-C
Los Angeles, Cal., 1873.
Photographer/Artist:
Mathews, A.E.
Original: Lithograph
Subjects/Genres:
Los Angeles area
Los Angeles
A. L. Bancroft & Co.
Bird's-eye views
Cityscapes
1963.002.1491-FR
Bird's eye view of the City and County of San Francisco, 1868 (copy dated 1873).
Photographer/Artist:
Gray, W.V., and Gifford, C.B.
Original: Lithograph, color
Subjects/Genres:
San Francisco history
San Francisco
A. L. Bancroft & Co.
Bird's-eye views
Cityscapes
1963.002.1508 TRANS
Emigrant train attacked by Indians.
Photographer/Artist:
Colman, Samuel
Original: Watercolor/Gouache/Pastel (?)
Subjects/Genres:
Immigrants
Transportation
Native Americans
1963.002.1526-FR
The gold seeker.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Lithograph, hand colored
Subjects/Genres:
Gold rush
Portraits
1963.002.1529-FR
S. E. Hollister, the great American hunter & trapper... 1853.
Photographer/Artist:
Henry C. Eno
Original: Lithograph,
hand colored
Subjects/Genres:
Early exploration
Hollister, S. E.
Portraits
1963.002.200-B
Sacramento [ca. 1850-1855].
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Lithograph, color
Subjects/Genres:
Sacramento history
Shipping
Sacramento
Bird's-eye views
Cityscapes
1963.002.224-A
Oh boys I've struck it heavy.
Photographer/Artist:
Seamon, Victor
Original: Drawing, colored (watercolor?)
Subjects/Genres:
Gold rush
Mining
1963.002.270-C
San Diego, 1850.
Photographer/Artist:
Conts, C.G.
Original: Lithograph, color
Subjects/Genres:
San Diego
Bird's-eye views
Cityscapes
1963.002.600-D
View of the town and harbour of San Francisco..., 1851.
Photographer/Artist: Collison, R.E.,
Boosey, W.
Original: Lithograph, color
Subjects/Genres:
Gold rush
San Francisco history
Shipping
San Francisco
Bird's-eye views
Cityscapes
Waterscapes
1963.002.772-A
Wagon in the desert.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Watercolor over pencil
Subjects/Genres:
Immigrants
Transportation
1963.002.999-B
Working a rastia.
Photographer/Artist:
Boot, J.
Original: Watercolor
Subjects/Genres:
Mining
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Photographs--The Miles Brothers
19xx.181:014
Wrecked house, Scott near Post St. [SF earthquake, 1906].
Photographer/Artist: Miles Brothers
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
San Francisco history
San Francisco
19xx.181:040
One of first motion picture exchanges "Sunset Films" [ca. 1906].
Photographer/Artist: Miles Brothers
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Arts
San Francisco history
Industry
San Francisco
Sunset Films
Scenic California--C.E. Watkins
1965.008.11-PIC
Picnicing [sic] in the redwood groves -- Russian River [ca. 1875-1880].
Photographer/Artist:
Watkins, Carleton E.
Original: Albumen (?) print, size AX
Subjects/Genres:
Leisure
Railroads
Russian River
1971.031.1914.09 #38
Letting the sun dry spray-soaked clothing [Sierra Club outing].
Photographer/Artist:
Pillsbury Picture Co.
Original: Photoprint, Black and White;
Subjects/Genres:
Environment
Leisure
National and state parks
Yosemite
Sierra Club
1971.038.014:21-PIC
Yosemite in winter.
Photographer/Artist:
Pillsbury Picture Co.
Original: Photoprint, Black and White;
Subjects/Genres:
National and state parks
Yosemite
Half Dome
1971.038.014:28
Grizzly Giant (Sequoia); Vermont and Wawona [redwood tree drive-through, ca. 1900-1910].
Photographer/Artist:
Pillsbury Picture Co.
Original: Photoprint, Black and White; (2)
Subjects/Genres:
National and state parks
Sierra Club
1971.038.014:29
Grizzly Giant (Sequoia); Vermont and Wawona [redwood tree drive-through, ca. 1900-1910].
Photographer/Artist:
Pillsbury Picture Co.
Original: Photoprint, Black and White; (2)
Subjects/Genres:
National and state parks
Sierra Club
Sierra Nevada Views--George Fiske
1905.02345-NEG
Honest John [mule and wagon of photographer George Fiske in Yosemite, 1875].
Photographer/Artist:
Fiske, George
Original:
Subjects/Genres:
Arts
National and state parks
Yosemite
Fiske, George
Views of Some of the Buildings of the California Wine Association
Note
View the California Wine
Association finding aid
1932.003-ALB [p. 2]
Front view of Greystone Winery.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint (in album)
Subjects/Genres:
Industry
Greystone Winery
California Wine Association
War Relocation Authority Photographs
1967.014 8CA-294
Japanese-Americans awaiting buses to Manzanar, April 1, 1941.
Photographer/Artist:
Albers, Clem
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Japanese-Americans
World War II
Manzanar
1967.014 8CB-204-205
Basketball game [Manzanar], February 13, 1943.
Photographer/Artist:
Stewart, Francis
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Japanese-Americans
World War II
Leisure
Manzanar
1967.014 8CB112
Japanese American man in barracks, April 2, 1942.
Photographer/Artist:
Albers, Clem
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Japanese-Americans
World War II
Manzanar
Portraits
1967.014 8CC-697 Box 7
Grandfather and grandson.
Photographer/Artist:
Lange, Dorothea
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Japanese-Americans
World War II
Manzanar
Portraits
William C. Barry Collection of Los Angeles Area Photographs
Note
View the William C. Barry
collection finding aid
1964.056 (17)
Spring Street looking north from 3rd [Los Angeles], 1902.
Photographer/Artist:
Park
Original: Albumen (?) print
Subjects/Genres:
Transportation
Los Angeles area
Los Angeles
Calif. Carpet Co.
N.B. Blackstone Co.
Mitchell & Co. Real Estate
Cityscapes
1964.056 (3)
Twenty mule borax team, 1908.
Photographer/Artist:
Pierce, C.C.
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Industry
Mining
Transportation
1964.056 (4)
Prospector [ca. 1908].
Photographer/Artist:
Pierce, C.C.
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Mining
Transportation
Goldfield Desert and Freighter
1964.056 (66)
Los Angeles -- out Temple from Courthouse,
ca. 1901.
Photographer/Artist:
Park
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Los Angeles area
Los Angeles
Cityscapes
1964.056 (67)
Float, Pasadena Tournament of Roses, ca. 1901.
Photographer/Artist:
Park
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Los Angeles area
Pasadena
Wyland Stanley Collection
1905.05278 (45)-PIC
Entrance hall in a San Francisco mansion, ca. 1885.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint (copy print)
Subjects/Genres:
San Francisco history
San Francisco
Zelda Mackay Pictorial Collection
Note
View a
related Zelda Mackay collection finding aid
1905.16242.25
Joseph Sharp, with pick axe in hand, 1849 gold miner, of Sharp's Flats.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Ambrotype
Subjects/Genres:
Gold rush
Sharp's Flats
Sharp, Joseph
Portraits
1905.16242.61
Six miners with rocker, wheel barrows, picks and shovels and gold pans.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Daguerreotype
Subjects/Genres:
Mining
Gold rush
1905.16242.81
Mining scene, Grizzly Flats, ca. 1850.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Daguereotype
Subjects/Genres:
Mining
Gold rush
Single Items From Various Collections
1905.01561
Blue and Gold Gravel Mill, Bangor, Butte Co., 1892 Aug. 1
Photographer/Artist:
Kay & Clark
Original: Photoprint,
mounted
Subjects/Genres:
Industry
Butte County
Bangor
1905.11611
Andy at sluice box, Auburn Ravine, Calif., in the early 1850s.
Photographer/Artist:
Dressler
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
African-Americans
Mining Auburn Ravine
1945.007:6
Pickets on the highway calling workers from the fields, 1933 cotton strike.
Photographer/Artist:
International News Photos, Inc.
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Mexican Americans
Agriculture
Labor
1971.007
The Padron [mounted horseman].
Photographer/Artist:
Walker, James
Original: Oil painting
Subjects/Genres:
Spanish and Mexican California
Mexican AmericansPortraits
1985.061
Oil wells in Long Beach.
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Photoprint
Subjects/Genres:
Industry
Los Angeles area
Long Beach
fG420.K84.C6 Vault Part 3, Plate III
Danse des habitantes de Californie a la mission de San Francisco [ca. 1815].
Photographer/Artist:
Choris, Louis
Original: Print,
color
Subjects/Genres:
Native Americans
Missions
Spanish and Mexican
California
San Francisco
fG420.K84C6 1822x Part 3, Plate II
Vue du Presidio de San Francisco [ca. 1815].
Photographer/Artist:
Choris, Louis
Original: Print, color
Subjects/Genres:
Native Americans
Spanish and Mexican
California
San Francisco
fG420.K84C6.1822 Part 3, Plate X
Bateau du port de San Francisco [ca. 1815].
Photographer/Artist:
Choris, Louis
Original: Print, color
Subjects/Genres:
Native Americans
San Francisco history
San Francisco
Missions
Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuhua, 1854
Creator/Collector: Bartlett, John Russell.
F786.B275 v. 2x p. 33
California Indians catching salmon, ca. 1854 [book illustration].
Photographer/Artist:
Bartlett, John Russell
Original: Print (book illustration)
Subjects/Genres:
Native Americans
Voyage autour du monde, 1834
Creator/Collector: Bernard du Hautcilly, Auguste.
G440 .B48 Vault v. 1 opp. p. 215
Mission of San Luis Rey.
Photographer/Artist:
Bernard du Hautcilly, Auguste
Original: Print (book illustration)
Subjects/Genres:
Missions
Spanish and Mexican California
San Luis Rey
G440 .B48 Vault v. 2
View of the Russian establishment, 1827.
Photographer/Artist:
Bernard du Hautcilly, Auguste
Original: Print
(book illustration)
Subjects/Genres:
Early exploration
Fort Ross
Panoramic views
Reisen und abenteuer im Apachenlande, 1871
Creator/Collector: Browne, John Ross.
F786 .B88 p. 348
Indians collecting taxes, ca. 1864 [book illustration].
Photographer/Artist:
Browne, J. Ross
Original: Print
(book illustration)
Subjects/Genres:
Native Americans
Chinese Americans
Exploration du Territoire de l'Orégon, des Californies, 1844
Creator/Collector: Duflot de Mofras, M.
xF851 .D85 v. 1 Fol. p. 199
Rev. Father N. Duran and Indian Child [book illustration].
Photographer/Artist:
Duflot de Mofras, M.
Original: Print (book illustration)
Subjects/Genres:
Missions
Native Americans
Spanish and Mexican California
Duran, N.
Portraits
Tribes of California, 1877
Creator/Collector: Powers, Stephen.
xE51 C76 v. 3 p. 350
Miwok acorn granaries [book illustration].
Photographer/Artist: Unknown
Original: Print (book illustration)
Subjects/Genres:
Native Americans
Agriculture
Miwok Indians
A tour of duty in California, 1849
Creator/Collector: Revere, Joseph W.
xF865 .R4
Sutter's Fort -- New Helvetia, ca. 1849 [book illustration].
Photographer/Artist:
Revere, Joseph W.
Original: Print
(book illustration)
Subjects/Genres:
Early exploration
Sacramento history
Spanish and Mexican California
Sutter, John
Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey, 1857
Creator/Collector: United States. Dept. of the Interior.
xF786 .U45 v. 1
Diegueno Indians [book illustration].
Photographer/Artist:
Schott, Arthur
Original: Print (book illustration)
Subjects/Genres:
Native Americans