Title:

[Alsing family photograph album]

Creator/Contributor:

Alsing family, creator, creator.

Chiefly snapshots documenting multiple generations of the Alsing family of Oakland and other Bay Area locations. Identified family members include H.P. Alsing, A.A. Alsing, Alvin Alsing, Rudi Alsing, Lea Alsing, Henry Alsing, L.N. Alsing, Walter Alsing, Clara Alsing and James Alvin Alsing. Rudi Alsing is depicted working in the Sunset Garage auto body shop, and later in the Dimond Garage, of which he was proprietor. Other families represented include, but are not limited to, Noble, Hobe, Cox and Thomas. General subjects include outdoor recreation, automobile travel, camping, boating, aviation and other leisure activities throughout the Bay Area and California. Numerous California locations are depicted, among them Oakland, San Francisco Bay, Marin County, Yosemite Valley, Alameda and Alvarado. Also includes some studio portraits of Alsing family members and others. Bookseller identified early aviator Roy Noel Francis among the images near the beginning of the album.

Date:

1890 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca

Alsing family -- Archives

Alsing family -- Photographs

Leisure -- California -- Photographs

Outdoor recreation -- California -- Photographs

Automobile travel -- California -- Photographs

Camping -- California -- Photographs

Aeronautics -- California -- Photographs

Boats and boating -- California -- Photographs

Oakland (Calif.) -- Photographs

San Francisco Bay (Calif.) -- Photographs

Title devised by cataloger.

Photographed by various members of the Alsing family.

Photographs laid into album have been rehoused into folder (PIC).

Alsing family photograph album, BANC PIC 2018.055, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic

Photograph albums.

Portraits-California.

photoprint

approximately 1175 photographs in 1 album and 1 folder : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; sheets various sizes, album 29 x 37 cm

English

Origin:

California