California Central Coast photograph album, circa 1900-1907

Collection context

Summary

Abstract:
Album contains 131 black-and-white photographs and two cyanotypes with handwritten captions of early California.
Extent:
0.21 linear feet (1 half-size document box)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Wyles Mss 204, California Central Coast photograph album. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

Album contains 131 black-and-white photographs and two cyanotypes with handwritten captions of early California. Images feature family members, including one woman who is a student at Stanford, home interiors and exteriors; farms, horses, clover harvesting, making fenceposts from a fallen tree; travel by horse-drawn cart; camp grounds; scenic views of rivers, oak trees, beaches, coastline, natural bridges, rivers, piers, Mount Tamalpais and signal station, San Francisco Bay; saw mill, Pickering Mine; a woman nicknamed Indian Susie gathering acorns; one shot of President McKinley giving a speech dated May 1901, followed by shots of his memorial procession; President Roosevelt in Oakland; views along the Canadian Pacific Railroad in Northern California; Wrights Station Hotel and town views in Wrights; Mission Dolores; Presbyterian Theological Seminary in San Anselmo. Last page includes a small program for an Annual Missionary Praise Service in 1906. Album was assembled by a mother for her daughter Lilian. Locations include Calaveras County, Santa Cruz, Livermore, Alameda, Oakland, San Anselmo, San Francisco, Sausalito, and Glenwood and Wrights, both now ghost towns in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Acquisition information:
Library purchase, 2015.
Physical location:
Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Wyles Mss 204, California Central Coast photograph album. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062