Title:
[California and Oregon promotional photomontages]
Creator/Contributor:
Tibbitts, H. C., creator, photographer.
Abstract:
California scenic montages composed of multiple rectangular and circular photographic views arranged along with identifying
text, and re-photographed to create single photographic prints. Presumably these were created for reproduction in a print
promotional publication, possibly by Sunset Magazine or the Southern Pacific Railroad, for which Tibbitts photographed over
several decades. Subjects are 1: The old missions of California -- 2: [a bee ranch in Ventura, artesian well in Pomona, and
a Spanish bayonet plant (yucca)] -- 3: Snow balls and roses, three miles apart, in California -- 4: [Yosemite: El Capitan
and Half Dome] -- 5: Crossing the Sierras via the Ogden Route -- 6: [Glen Alpine country, near Lake Tahoe] -- 7: Gilmore's
Glen Alpine Springs [and vicinity] -- 8: [Mount Tallac and vicinity] -- 9: Fallen Leaf Lake and Mt. Tallac -- 10: [Lake Tahoe,
Cascade Lake, and White Cloud Falls] -- 11: The California Geysers -- 12: The Klammath Hot Springs and surroundings -- 13:
On the "Big Bend" of the Shasta Route -- 14: [Mount Shasta, Sissons, and vicinity] -- 15: On the road to Crater Lake [including
Rogue River, Oregon and region] -- 16: Crater Lake, on the summit of the Cascade Mts
Date:
1890 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Wilderness areas -- California -- Photographs
Réserves de la vie sauvage -- Californie -- Photographies
Wilderness areas
California -- Photographs
Oregon -- Photographs
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Photographs
Californie -- Photographies
Oregon -- Photographies
Nevada, Sierra (Calif. et Nev.) -- Photographies
California
Oregon
United States -- Sierra Nevada
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographic montages by H.C. Tibbitts, using his own view photographs and those of other photographers including I.W. Taber,
R.J. Waters, and Perkins. Many are initialed EMcDJ, possibly the artists responsible for captioning and/or layout.
Purchase; From the California Curio Company; 2002.
California and Oregon promotional photomontages, BANC PIC 2002.142, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphic
Photographs.
Photomontages.
Physical Description:
photoprint
16 photographs : albumen prints ; images approximately 20 x 17 cm, mounts 28 x 24 cm
Language:
English
Origin:
California