Description
The Logging Operations in Little River, California collection contains 5 cartes de visite photographs that have been attributed
to photographer Martin M. Hazeltine. The collection features early views of the vicinity of the lumber mill town of Little
River, in Mendocino County, California, which until 1864 was known as Bell's Harbor and Kent's Landing. Two of the views feature
the mill area, showing the various mill structures, the log landing, and other surrounding buildings; two views are of the
first wharf built in the harbor; and one view pictures loggers in a logging camp.
Background
Martin Mason Hazeltine was born on July 31, 1827, in Vermont. He and his brother George I. Hazeltine studied photography in
St. Charles, Illinois, and then in New York City. In December of 1853 the two brothers moved to San Francisco where they operated
a daguerreotype studio. Largely independently of George, M. M. Hazeltine continued in photography for decades, producing pictures
of Yosemite and other scenic areas California, Oregon, and Idaho. In the mid-1860s (ca. 1866-1867), M. M. Hazeltine moved
to Mendocino; his many photographs taken there and elsewhere were later published by such firms as J. P. Soule and Lawrence
& Houseworth. He entered a partnership with J. J. Reilly in the 1870s based in Stockton and Yosemite Valley, but returned
to Mendocino on and off until the 1880s. In the later part of his life, he lived in Idaho and Oregon. He died in 1903. (Source:
Treadwell, T. K., and William C. Darrah. Stereographers of the World. Volume II -United States. [Byran, Texas] : National
Stereoscopic Association, 1994. and Palmquist, Peter E., and Kailbourn, Thomas R. Pioneer Photographers of the Far West. Stanford,
Stanford University Press, 2000. )
Extent
5 digital objects
5 photographs on cartes de visite mounts, 7 x 10 cm.
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Availability
Restricted originals. Use of originals only by permission of the Curator of Pictorial Collections, The Bancroft Library.