Raun Family Photograph Album of California Scenes, ca. 1900

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Title:: Raun Family Photograph Album of California Scenes [graphic],
Dates:: ca. 1900
Creators:: Raun family
Extent:: Number of items: 1 album (77 photographic prints) : platinum prints?
Language:: English
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Raun family photograph album of California scenes [graphic], BANC PIC 1975.028--fALB, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Scope and content:: Snapshots or amateur views including San Francisco's Cliff House and Golden Gate Park, Monterey, Sacramento, Mt. Tamalpais, Sausalito, the Mokelumne River, and the Del Ray [sic] mine. Also present is a view of the tombstone of Eduard Theodor and Charlotta Augusta Raun, parents of Eduard P. Raun.
Biographical / historical:: The Rauns were a family of Oakland, Calif. pioneers. Eduard P. Raun (b. 1856, Coloma, Calif.) operated the Del Ray Quartz Mine, Amador County, Calif. His father, Eduard Theodor Raun, came to California in 1849 and, in 1853 married Charlotte Augusta Phelps of Benicia, Calif. (Biographical information is derived from the auction catalog of Sale 105 of the California Book Auction Galleries (Nov. 1974)).
Acquisition information:: Purchased from the California Book Auction Co. (Sale no. 105, Nov. 1974, item #288) in memory of Francis Overstreet Kelsey. From the estate of Edward Tuttle Raun of Oakland, Calif.
Physical location:: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Collection Guide Author:: Processed by The Bancroft Library staff
Date Prepared:: © 1997
Date Encoded:: Machine-readable finding aid derived from typescript by rekeying; finding aid encoded by James Lake and Jamie Jesson. Date of source: ca. 1975.

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Restrictions:: Collection is open for research.
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Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Raun family photograph album of California scenes [graphic], BANC PIC 1975.028--fALB, 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