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Finding Aid to Scenes of Rancho San Antonio Photographed for Northern California Land Cases, 1861
BANC PIC 19xx.096--ffALB
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Collection Title: Scenes of Rancho San Antonio photographed for Northern California land cases by Carleton E. Watkins
Date (inclusive): 1861
Collection Number: BANC PIC 19xx.096--ffALB
Photographer:
Watkins, Carleton E.
Extent:
13 photographs : salted paper prints ; prints approximately 34 x 42 cm, top corners rounded.
13 digital objects (13 images)
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
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RESTRICTED ORIGINALS. USE VIEWING PRINTS or ONLINE DIGITAL IMAGES ONLY: Viewing prints shelved as BANC PIC 19xx.096--PIC.
Use of originals only by permission of the appropriate curator. Inquiries concerning these materials should be directed, in
writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.
[Identification of item], Scenes of Rancho San Antonio photographed for Northern California land cases, BANC PIC 19xx.096--ffALB,
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Digital reproductions of images are available.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog
United States. District Court (California : Northern District). Land case. 100.
United States. District Court (California). Documents pertaining to the adjudication of private land claims in California.
Land titles -- California -- Cases -- Photographs
Contra Costa County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
El Cerrito (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Rancho San Antonio (Alameda County, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Mammoth plates
Photographs
Salted paper prints
Received with Documents pertaining to the adjudication of private land claims in California, ca. 1852-1904 (BANC MSS Land
Case Files, 100 ND)
Scope and Content Note
Large format landscape scenes of Rancho San Antonio (Alameda and Contra Costa counties, Calif.), for land settlement case.
Most views are in the vicinity of El Cerrito, California. Captions indicate that views were for use in case "No. 100: United
States District Court Northern District of California... The United States vs. D & V. Peralta."
Note
Collection title devised by cataloger.
Photographs are numbered A-C, 1-10.
Manuscript captions on items provide exhibit number, name of court case, and date filed, but no descriptive information
Image sizes vary slightly. Two of thirteen views are composed of two photoprints mounted together.
These views originally were pp.2235-2247 of Land Case 100 ND. For Watkins' deposition see pp.945-962, 982-1018 of the case.
Information on locations of views in this listing is based upon notes taken during review of images by Gray Brechin and other
Berkeley geographers in December, 1998.