Guide to the California Central Coast photograph album Wyles Mss 204
Finding aid prepared by Special Collections staff, 2015.
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara 93106-9010
special@library.ucsb.edu
2015 February 19
Title: California Central Coast photograph album
Identifier/Call Number: Wyles Mss 204
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.21 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Date (inclusive): circa 1900-1907
Abstract: Album contains 131 black-and-white photographs and two cyanotypes with handwritten captions of early California.
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[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.
Library purchase, 2015.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Presidents -- United States -- Pictorial works
Landscapes -- California -- Pacific Coast -- Pictorial works
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
California, Northern -- Pictorial works
Tamalpais, Mount (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Calaveras County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Santa Cruz (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Livermore (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Alameda (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Oakland (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
San Anselmo (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Sausalito (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Black-and-white photographs
Cyanotypes (photographic prints)
Photograph albums
McKinley, William, 1843-1901 -- Pictorial works
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Pictorial works
San Francisco de Asis Mission (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
San Francisco Theological Seminary -- Pictorial works
Box 1
One album containing 131 black-and-white photographs and two cyanotypes with handwritten captions of early California circa 1900-1907