Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Guide to the California Stereoviews, ca. 1870
PC-RM-Stereos: Box 06  
View entire collection guide What's This?
Search this collection
Collection Details
 
Table of contents What's This?
  • Descriptive Summary
  • Administrative Information
  • Scope and Content of Collection
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: California stereoviews,
    Date (inclusive): ca. 1870
    Collection number: PC-RM-Stereos: Box 06
    Creator: Soule, John P.
    Extent: 33 photographic prints (stereographs), 8.5 x 17.5 cm
    Repository: California Historical Society, North Baker Library
    San Francisco, California 94105-4014
    Abstract: Stereographs of Yosemite, Mendocino County, Calaveras Big Trees, and other California views by John P. Soule.
    Physical location: Please consult repository.
    Language: English.

    Administrative Information

    Access

    CHS is not taking appointments for research at this time. Please check the Library's website updates: https://californiahistoricalsociety.org/collections/north-baker-research-library/ 

    Publication Rights

    Copyright has not been assigned to California Historical Society. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the California Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

    Preferred Citation

    California Stereoviews. PC-RM-Stereos: Box 06, California Historical Society, North Baker Research Library, Photography Collection.

    Acquisition Information

    Consult repository.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    Contains primarily landscape views of Yosemite and Mendocino County. There are several images of Calaveras Big Trees and logging, including one photo taken in Fresno County. There is one photo of the Hotel and Post Office at Fisherman's Bay in Sonoma County and one Russian Hill view of Telegraph Hill and Washington Square in San Francisco. One photo of Indians from an unidentified tribe pictured with their dwellings in Mendocino County. One photo of a decorative botanical arrangement made from leaves.Organized by series: California--Big Trees, California, California -- Yo-Semite Valley, California--Mammoth Trees, Skeleton Leaves.

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection.

    Subject

    Logging-California-Mendocino County-Photographs.
    Logging-California-Fresno County-Photographs
    Tree felling-California-Mendocino County-Photographs.
    Tree felling-California-Fresno County-Photographs.
    Giant sequoia-Photographs.
    Indians of North America-Dwellings-California-Mendocino County-Pictorial works.
    Cut foliage-Photographs.
    Yosemite Valley (Calif.)-Pictorial works.
    Mendocino County (Calif.)-Pictorial works.
    Sonoma County (Calif.)-Pictorial works.
    Fresno County (Calif.)-Pictorial works.
    San Francisco (Calif.)-Pictorial works.