Title:

Historical California images and miscellaneous art works from the Thomas W. Norris collection

Images largely relating to California history, including historic buildings and events, early settlement, etc. Many are reproduction prints or proofs of prints apparently for book illustrations or for Norris's annual holiday greeting, for which he reproduced early images from his own collection. Subject based files (PIC box) are: Los Angeles (with oversized in B), mining districts (with oversized in AX and B), missions (with oversized in AX), Monterey and vicinity (with oversized in AX and B), Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco (with oversized in AX and B), Santa Barbara (with oversized in B), San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara County and San Jose, Solano County, Sonoma County, Stockton, and miscellaneous or unidentified California views (with oversized in B). Also present (PIC box) are two etchings by Carl Oscar Borg: a portrait and a view of classical ruins. Photographs of note include an albumen print of a Stockton view, copied by photographer J. Pitcher Spooner from an original daguerreotype by William H. Rulofson, the original of which is in the Weber family collection of The Bancroft Library. Also of note are several good quality views of the Baldwin Hotel fire of 1898 on Market Street in San Francisco. Overized material (size AX), in addition to that noted above, includes two maritime watercolors by F.H. dated 1833 and 1834, a pencil drawing of Mission Dolores in San Francisco circa 1850, six pencil sketches of homes or farm buildings or other structures some of which may be in California, a watercolor of a tree, and numerous drawings of floral arrangements.

Date:

approximately 1820-1900? (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca

San Francisco de Asís Mission (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works

San Francisco de Asís Mission (San Francisco, Calif.)

California -- History -- Pictorial works

California

Title devised by cataloger.

Collection includes numerous reproduction prints and copy photographs of historic images as well as some 19th century prints, illustrations, and photographs. Oversize "B" contains only reproduciton prints.

Annotations suggest Norris may have kept these images in subject based "volumes," at least in part.

COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.

Thomas Wayne Norris (1878-1952): resident of Livermore and Carmel, Calif., President of Coast Manufacturing and Supply Company, active member of the California Historical Society and E Clampus Vitus, and collector of Californiana.

Type:

graphic

History.

Pictorial works.

picture

1 box (approximately 300 photographic prints and prints) and 22 oversize drawings and paintings : some color ; 35 x 26 cm or smaller

English

Origin:

California

COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.