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Walter Wadsworth Bradley photograph collection.
BANC PIC 1950.006--ALBLOCAL
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Title:

Walter Wadsworth Bradley photograph collection

Creator/Contributor:

Bradley, Walter W. (Walter Wadsworth), 1878-, creator

Date:

ca. 1898-1940 (issued)

Subject:

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Mines and mineral resources -- California -- Photographs
Industrial equipment -- Photographs
Mines and mineral resources -- Mexico -- Photographs
Mining engineering -- Photographs
Oil fields -- California, Southern -- Photographs
Entreprises -- Équipement -- Photographies
Technique minière -- Photographies
Gisements pétrolifères -- Californie (Sud) -- Photographies
Industrial equipment
Mines and mineral resources
Mining engineering
Oil fields
Students
California
Southern California
Mexico
University of California, Berkeley -- Students -- Photographs
University of California, Berkeley.

Note:

Some albums (v.3-4, for example), made from ledger or account books of Chinese merchants or wholesalers. Chinese characters have been partially obscured by the mounting of Bradley's photographs over them.
Includes views of Bradley's student days at U.C. Berkeley, aftermath of the 1923 fire in Berkeley, San Francisco Bay Area views including Bay Bridge construction and the Embarcadero, many views relating to mining, mining engineering and equipment in California and elsewhere in the Americas. California locations include: Bodie, Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada, Mt. Lassen, Napa and Madera counties, the Raymond Granite quarry, Tesla mines, Long Beach oil fields, and the Stanislaus River region. Numerous views in Mexico are present, as well as various Western states. Two postcards are of 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Also includes panoramic views of Niagara Falls, Mt. Tamalpais Railway and F. & A.M. Diamond Jubilee celebration at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NEGATIVES: RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
NITRATE NEGATIVES CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.
Transferred from the Walter Wadsworth Bradley papers (BANC MSS C-B 406).
Temporary list of contents available.

Type:

graphic
Photographs.
Account books.

Physical Description:

1 carton & 7 boxes (photographic prints, photomechanical prints, albums), 4 oversize folders (12 photographic prints), 12 boxes (108 lantern slides), 18 boxes (glass negatives) and 42 boxes (ca. 6000 film negatives) ; various sizes.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC PIC 1950.006--ALBLOCAL

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NEGATIVES: RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
NITRATE NEGATIVES CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.

Related Item:

Walter Wadsworth Bradley papers : Bradley, Walter W. (Walter Wadsworth), : 1878-