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[Photograph album documenting Golden Gate International Exposition and trees and wildlife of the West].
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Title:
[Photograph album documenting Golden Gate International Exposition and trees and wildlife of the West]Creator/Contributor:
Baker, Ralph W., photographer.Abstract:
Photograph album, the first of a seven-volume series compiled by an unknown amateur photographer, with snapshots documenting
tree plantings, other trees and wildlife of California and the Western U.S. and, more extensively, the Golden Gate International
Exposition held on Treasure Island, San Francisco. Locations of trees and animals depicted include California, Nevada and
Arizona. G.G.I.E. subjects include exposition grounds, buildings, exhibits and events. Many photographs depict nude female
models who posed for photographs in the "Studio Parisienne" and Greenwich Village "Life Class" attractions of the exposition.
Other locations on Treasure Island are also depicted. Also includes typescript index of subjects found in the seven-volume
series.
Date:
1932 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-usp--Trees -- West (U.S.) -- Photographs
Animals -- West (U.S.) -- Photographs
Trees
Animals
Treasure Island (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Photographs
Treasure, Île (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Photographies
West United States
California -- San Francisco -- Treasure Island
Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.) -- Photographs
Golden Gate International Exposition
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Stamps on backs of some prints include a photgrapher's name: Ralph W. Baker. Other photographer(s), compiler unknown.
Descriptive captions, including dates, present for many photographs.
Typescript label on spine: "Vol. 1 and index".
Purchased from Serendipity Books ; 2005.
Photograph album documenting Golden Gate International Exposition and trees and wildlife of the West, BANC PIC 2005.133, The
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotographs
Photograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
132 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints ; prints various sizes, album 29 x 24 cm
Language:
English