Southern and Western United States Photographic Travel Album, approximately 1910s

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Summary

Title:
Photographic Travel Album of the Southern and Western United States
Dates:
approximately 1910s
Abstract:
This personal album features artistically-composed photographs of often-visited sights and scenery from Louisiana to the Western United States. The photographs were taken by an unknown photographer, and were beautifully printed and mounted, with hand-lettered ink captions. Thirty-six of the 49 photographs are of California cities, landmarks or landscapes, but there are also views of New Orleans, Texas, and Arizona.
Extent:
49 photographs in 1 album; album 26 x 30.5 cm. (10 x 12 in.).
Language:
Preferred citation:

Photographic Travel Album of the Southern and Western United States. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

This personal album features artistically-composed photographs of often-visited sights and scenery from Louisiana to the Western United States. The photographs were taken by an unknown photographer, and were beautifully printed and mounted, with hand-lettered ink captions. Thirty-six of the forty-nine photographs are of California cities, landmarks or landscapes, but there are also views of New Orleans, Texas, and Arizona.

This collection includes photographs of Missions San Gabriel, San Juan Capistrano; San Fernando, Santa Barbara, San Miguel, and Carmel; Chinatown in San Francisco; Golden Gate Park; Mt. Tamalpais; Hotel Potter in Santa Barbara; Los Angeles; Long Beach; Avalon Bay in Santa Catalina Island; Riverside, California; Ocean Park; and Rancho Camulos. Of note are two photos at the Santa Barbara Mission that include clergy posed in the scenes. Other California locations include Redlands, Riverside and city scenes in San Francisco. There are views of buildings in New Orleans; the Alamo (San Antonio, Texas); San Xavier Mission (Texas); the ruins of Casa Grande (Arizona); and landscapes of Texas and Arizona.

This album was probably owned by "C. W. Hornick," whose name is engraved on the album’s front cover; he may also be the photographer.

Item titles transcribed from written captions for each photograph.

Acquisition information:
Provenance unknown; in Library as of 2012
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Michelle Sanchez.
Date Prepared:
© 2013
Date Encoded:
Machine readable finding aid encoded by Diann Benti in April 2014 .

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Preferred citation:

Photographic Travel Album of the Southern and Western United States. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2129
reference@huntington.org
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