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Finding Aid to the Pictorial Material from the Anna Blake Mezquida
Papers, circa 1860-1965, bulk circa 1900-1910.
BANC PIC
1973.055--PIC
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Collection Title: Pictorial material from the Anna Blake Mezquida
papers,
Date (inclusive): circa 1860 -1965,
Date (bulk): , bulk circa 1900-1910
Collection number: BANC PIC
1973.055--PIC
Collector:
Mezquida, Anna Blake
Extent:
1 box (ca. 300 photographic prints, postcards, collotypes, and etchings) and
2 oversize photographic prints
80 digital objects
Repository: The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Abstract: Collection includes an album of photographs, postcards, and
prints from the 1906 earthquake and fire of San Francisco with captions apparently
by Anna Blake Mezquida or a family member.
Languages represented: Collection materials are in English.
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.
Collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection
materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Access Services, The
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. Consent is
given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and
does not constitute permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be
obtained from the copyright owner. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use
of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Pictorial Material from the Anna Blake Mezquida Papers,
BANC PIC 1973.055--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
76 items related to the 1906 earthquake and fire have been selected for
digitization in this finding aid.
Anna Blake Mezquida Papers, 1788-1975 (bulk 1898-1965), BANC MSS 73/188 c
Some materials acquired by the Library at various times have been cataloged
separately. Search the library's catalog under the author name: Mezquida, Anna
Blake
Pictorial Material from the Anna Blake Mezquida Papers was given to The Bancroft
Library by the Wiltse family on June 8, 1973.
No additions are expected.
Processed by Bancroft Library staff in 2005.
Poet, scenarist, critic, journalist, author of short stories, plays, and books,
Mezquida (b. Sept. 1, 1883; d. Mar. 12, 1965) lived her entire life in San
Francisco, Calif.
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection includes an album of photographs, postcards, and prints from the 1906
earthquake and fire of San Francisco with captions apparently by Anna Blake Mezquida
or a family member. Some show ruins of Blake family home at 808 Hyde Street, and
refugee camps. Also present are postcards of the disaster and general San Francisco
views. Includes late 19th and early 20th century views from numerous American
locations (including Maine), miscellaneous postcards, and two sets of etchings (of
scenes related to Hawthorne and Whittier) by W.B. Closson. Three views of Benicia,
Calif. are present, including a carte de visite of the "Young Ladies' Seminary,
1854-8" (apparently photographed in the 1860's).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Earthquakes--California--San
Francisco--Photographs
Fires--California--San
Francisco--Photographs
San Francisco Earthquake, Calif.,
1906--Photographs
San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Benicia (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Postcards
Photographs