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Photograph Album of Scenes Taken
Along Remote Stretches of Highways
MC334
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Davis Library, Dept. of
Special Collections
Title: Photograph Album of Scenes Taken Along Remote
Stretches of Highways
Identifier/Call Number: MC334
Physical Description:
1 item
Gray cloth album binding measuring 10.75 x 8.75
inches, housed in a brown slipcase, containing 67 black and
white photographs, each measuring 6 x 3.5 inches. Almost all of
the photographs are captioned on the backs of the images and/or
on the album leaves.
Date (inclusive):
1927-1940
Abstract: An album of scenes
taken along several highways in the Central Valley and Sierra
Nevada Mountains of California.
Physical Location: Researchers should
contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections,
as many are stored offsite.
An album of scenes taken along several highways in the Central
Valley and Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, generally
between Redding in the North, Oroville in the South, and Belden
in the East. The first series of images depicts a remote stretch
of Highway 299 along the Trinity River Valley around Weaverville,
CA. Highway 299 underwent changes and improvements during this
era, and the images reflect this, with captions noting completed
sections of highway and the presence of "old" and
"new" highways in the images. One photo shows blasting
a cliff to build a new section of road, followed by a photo of a
steam shovel at work. The rest of the album depicts scenes along
similarly remote stretches of road between Oroville and Cherokee,
between Oroville and Chico, between Oroville and Quincy, and
along the Feather River Highway in the Sierra Nevadas. The album
includes many landscape shots (including images showing roads
through them as well as landscapes taken from the road itself),
as well as many images showing structures--both abandoned and in
use--along the way, including bridges, the remains of the town of
Cherokee, Ca, a Children's Playground at Big Pine Camp, the
Ruins of a Smelter at Kennett, Ca, and more. Another image shows
California Highway Commission Camp Number 30 in Pulga, Ca,
suggesting that the album belonged to a member of the commission,
possibly one of the surveyors known to use the Pulga camp as a
base.
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Purchased from Caroliana Books, 2021.
[Identification of item], Photograph Album of Scenes Taken
Along Remote Stretches of Highways, MC334, Archives and Special
Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California,
Davis.
All applicable copyrights for the collection are protected
under chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code. Requests for
permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted
in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University
of California as the owner of the physical items. It is not
intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder,
which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
California, Northern -- Pictorial
works
Michael and Margaret B. Harrison
Western Research Center