Inventory of the Babette Neugass Saunders Photograph Album SPC.2020.033
Karen Clemons
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
2020-12
University Library South -5039 (Fifth Floor)
1000 E. Victoria St.
Carson, CA 90747
archives@csudh.edu
Contributing Institution:
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
Title: Babette Neugass Saunders Photograph Album
Creator:
Neugass Saunders, Babette (Heller)
Identifier/Call Number: SPC.2020.033
Physical Description:
1 box
(one photograph album comprising of approximately 220 photographs, 96 postcards, two maps, four documents)
Date (inclusive): 1849, 1888, 1906, 1907, 1913-1915; undated
Abstract: This collection contains one photograph album "From Babette Neugass to Elsie Harrison, with her promise to write, San Francisco
January Nineteenth 1914..." and features images mostly of California and the American West. Other images are taken in Mexico,
New Orleans, New York City, British Columbia, Utah, Arizona, and Wales. This album contains a mixture of photographs and postcards
that feature images of mining towns; Chinatown in San Francisco; Muir Woods; Yosemite; Babette's first apartment in San Francisco;
and Babette's friends including Mr and Mrs. A.B. Ford and their family, Mr. and Mrs. H. Parker and their ranch in Napa Valley;
and others.
Language of Material:
English
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Conditions Governing Access
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives
and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Scope and Contents
The Babette Neugass Saunders Photograph Album (1914-1915) collection contains one photograph album complied by Neugass Saunders
and features images mostly of California and the American West. Other images are taken in Mexico, New Orleans, New York City,
British Columbia, Utah, Arizona, and Wales. This album contains a mixture of photographs and postcards that feature images
of mining towns; Chinatown in San Francisco; Muir Woods; Yosemite; Babette's first apartment in San Francisco; Babette's friends
including Mr and Mrs. A.B. Ford and their family; Mr and Mrs. H. Parker; "Howard Gould's sister" and her husband [Wong Su
Yu]; Napa Valley; Arizona; New Orleans; New York; Wales; Juarez, Mexico; Salt Lake City; and others.
Some of the inscribed images include: "Scenes near Castle Rock, Colorado"; "A circus in Western America"; "Gamblers Row near
Mining Camp Nevada"; "Scenes in Chinatown, San Francisco"; "Mrs. Gould's sister married to Chinese and lives in Chinatown,
San Francisco"; "Among the redwoods"; "On the way up to Mount Tamalpais"; "Country Club, Burlingame, California"; "Panama
Pacific Exposition 1915"; "Greek Theatre at Berkeley"; "The famous cypress trees near Carmel, Cal."; "Mr and Mrs. Park at
their prune ranch, Napa County"; "Following the trail on horseback in Yosemite Valley"; "Railway Station, Arizona"; "Pasadena";
"Hopi Indians house in Arizona"; "Castle Canyon near Devils River, Texas Street in Juarez"; "Chinese Pirate Vessel, 160 years
old. Acquired by Americans for show purposes"; "Victoria and Vancouver British Columbia, January 1915"; and others.
Also included in this photograph album is a page of drawings featuring sketches mostly of someone named "Herbert"; two maps-"Chicago,
Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway and connecting lines" and "Southern Pacific Steamship Lines between New York and New Orleans";
and a few other documents: "Organ Recitals in the Tabernacle Salt Lake City Utah" [program], "Articles of Faith of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", and "I Never Have Seen Los Angeles" by Charles [Truitt] Manhattan.
Biographical / Historical
This photograph album contains the inscription "From Babette Neugass to Elsie Harrison, with her promise to write, San Francisco
January Nineteenth 1914..." inside the front cover. Babette (Heller) Neugass Saunders (1892-1941) was married to her first
husband, Marvin Neugass in 1913 and had three children. Neugass had been drafted for World War I and passed away from the
Spanish flu at Fort Taylor, KY in 1918. Babette was remarried to Saunders in 1921.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
California, Northern
San Francisco (Calif.)
Photograph albums
Arizona
Colorado
Nevada
California, Southern
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)
box 1, item 1-32
Photographs and Postcards- Nevada, Colorado, and Sierra Nevada
1849; circa 1913-1915
Scope and Contents
Contains photographs and postcards featuring images of: Castle Rock Nevada; mining towns, camps, and homes in Nevada; Virginia
City, Tonopah and other cities in Nevada; Nevada scenery; snow sheds in the Sierra Nevada; skiing; horseback riding; and the
Rockies.
box 1, item 33-60
Photographs and Postcards of San Francisco, California
1906, 1915; undated
Scope and Contents
Contains postcards and photographs featuring images of: San Francisco Bay; ferries; Babette's first apartment; postcards of
images taken after the 1906 earthquake; and images of San Francisco's Chinatown including a portrait of a mixed race couple-
"Howard Gould's sister" and her husband [Wong Su Yu].
box 1, item 61-115
Photographs and Postcards- family friends, Muir Woods, Mount Tamalpais
1888, circa 1913-1915; undated
Scope and Contents
Contains postcards and photographs featuring images of: redwood trees; Lake Tahoe; camping; Muir Woods; a cattle ranch; Mount
Tamalpais; images of Mr and Mrs. A.B. Ford and their family and home; and others.
box 1, item 116-171
Photographs and postcards taken in California- Burlingame; San Francisco; Napa Valley; Carmel; and other locations
1906, 1913, 1915; undated
Scope and Contents
Cotnains postcards and photographs featuring images of: Burlingame Country Club and Polo Grounds; construction of the Panama–Pacific
International Exposition in San Francisco including an images of the Tower of Jewels; the Greek Theatre in Berkeley; postcards
depicting the fire after the 1906 earthquake; Mr. and Mrs. H. Parker and their ranch in Napa Valley; cypress trees and a mission
in Carmel; the Santa Cruz boardwalk; and others.
box 1, item 172-211
Photographs and Postcards- Yosemite; Santa Barbara; Arizona; and other locations
1907; circa 1913-1915; undated
Scope and Contents
Contains postcards and photographs featuring images mostly of Yosemite National Park including: Yosemite Valley; Sentinel
Rock; Mirror Lake; waterfalls; horseback riding; postcards of bears and a rattlesnake; picnics; Yosemite Falls; hiking; and
El Capitan. Also included are images of Native American women and children; images taken at a railway station in Arizona;
and images of Santa Barbara Mission.
box 1, item 212-246
Photographs and Postcards- Southern California; Arizona; Texas; Colorado; and Mexico
circa 1913-1915; undated
Scope and Contents
Contains postcards and photographs featuring images of: an ostrich farm in Pasadena; an alligator farm in Los Angeles; a "Chinese
Pirate Vessel"; Grand Canyon; Pueblo peoples; Hopi Tribe homes; railway at Royal Gorge, Colorado; San Antonio and Devils River
Texas; "street scenes" in Juarez Mexico; and postcards featuring Mexican families and homes.
box 1, item 247-281
Photographs and Postcards- New Orleans; Salt Lake City; and other locations
circa 1913-1915; undated
Scope and Contents
contains mostly postcards of featuring images of Salt Lake City streets, buildings, and landmarks such as Lion House, Temple
Square, Mormon temples, Tabernacle, and Brigham Young's last residence. Also included are images taken in New Orleans, on
board the S.S. Creole, and portraits of "Otis Skimmer".
box 1, item 282-316
Photographs and Postcards- Atlanta Georgia; British Columbia; Florida; New York; and Wales
1915, circa 1913-1915; undated
Scope and Contents
contains photographs and postcards featuring images of: Atlanta Georgia; Victoria and Vancouver British Columbia; St. Augustine
Florida; orange groves in Florida; New York harbor; skyscrapers in New York City; a picnic on the Hudson River; and images
taken in St. Mellons Monmouthshire in Wales.
box 1
Loose documents- sketches mostly of someone named, "Herbert"; "Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway and connecting lines";
"Southern Pacific Steamship Lines between New York and New Orleans"; "Organ Recitals in the Tabernacle Salt Lake City Utah"
[program]; "Articles of Faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints"; and "I Never Have Seen Los Angeles" by
Charles [Truitt] Manhattan.
August 1925; undated
