Hazeltine (M. M.), Logging Operations in Little River, California Photographs, ca. 1870, circa 1870

Summary

Title:

Logging Operations in Little River, California

Dates:

circa 1870

Creators:

Hazeltine, M. M. (Martin Mason)

Extent:

5 digital objects 5 photographs on cartes de visite mounts, 7 x 10 cm.

Language:

Collection materials are in English

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Logging Operations in Little River, California, Photographs attributed to M.M. Hazeltine, ca. 1870, BANC PIC 1905.11998-12002--CDV, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

These photographs were previously attributed, by Eugene Compton, to Carleton E. Watkins. Watkins biographer and historian of photography Peter E. Palmquist revised this attribution to M.M. Hazeltine.

Biographical / historical:

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. )

Acquisition information:

The Logging Operations in Little River, California photographs were received as a gift from Cecil Mallory in 1957 via Eugene Compton.

Physical location:

Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Rules or conventions:

Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Related resources

Related material:

Photographs of Oregon, California, Idaho, and Other Western Scenes, by M. M. and G. I. Hazeltine, 1857-ca. 1890? BANC PIC 1905.13652-.13974--STER

Stereoviews of Yosemite : From the American Scenery Series of C. L. Pond. (Photographed by M. M. Hazeltine). BANC PIC 1980.076--STER

Views Along the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railway Lines, by M. M. Hazeltine, ca. 1870-ca. 1889? BANC PIC 1905.17142--ALB

William F. Johns Mining Records, 1870-ca. 1910? (Photographed in part by M. M. Hazeltine). BANC PIC 1993.037--B

Mendocino County Photographs, ca. 1867-1869, by M. M. Hazeltine BANC PIC 1905.13608-.13651--PIC

Alternative form available:

Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were copied onto 35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and the Photo CD files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Processed by Chris McDonald.

Sponsor:

Finding aid and digital representations of archival materials funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Date Prepared:

1996

Date Encoded:

Machine-readable finding aid generated by GenX; markup validated by The Bancroft Library using CDL validation tools; Date of source: October 2017

Restrictions:

Restricted originals. Use of originals only by permission of the Curator of Pictorial Collections, The Bancroft Library.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Logging Operations in Little River, California, Photographs attributed to M.M. Hazeltine, ca. 1870, BANC PIC 1905.11998-12002--CDV, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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