Finding Aid to California Mission Sketches by Henry Miller, 1856, 1856

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Finding Aid to California Mission Sketches by Henry Miller, 1856, 1856

Collection number: BANC PIC 1905.00006--B

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Phone: (510) 642-6481

Fax: (510) 642-7589

Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu

URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/

Finding Aid Author(s):: Processed by Padma Rubiales and The Bancroft Library staff.
Finding Aid Encoded By:: GenX

Collection Summary

Collection Title: California Mission Sketches by Henry Miller

Date: 1856

Collection Number: BANC PIC 1905.00006--B

Artist: Miller, Henry

Extent: 38 pencil sketches, 28 x 45 cm. 38 digital objects

Repository: The Bancroft Library.

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Phone: (510) 642-6481

Fax: (510) 642-7589

Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu

URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/

Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English

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Information for Researchers

Access

Originals not available for use. Use viewing prints with call no. BANC PIC 1905.00006--PIC.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], California Mission Sketches by Henry Miller, 1856, BANC PIC 1905.00006--B, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Digital Representations Available

Digital representations of 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.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog

Miller, Henry , 1891- --Archives.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Unknown.

Scope and Content

This collection of 38 pencil sketches of the California Missions are the earliest known attempt to depict the Missions in a series (1856). The artist Henry Miller was identified in Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1929, pages 132-133. *

Henry Miller originally planned to sketch the principal towns and scenery of the eastern counties of Alta California, in order to publish his observations and illustrations. He deemed himself too illiterate to accomplish this, and decided instead to prepare for a panorama that would "embrace all that is remarkable and peculiar in this state."* He traveled through the southern counties, braving bandits, wild animals, and high fares for travel through mining districts. He slept in fields and survived with little funds, earning extra money by selling sketches along the way. He traveled along "the main road leading from Mission to Mission,"* from San Francisco to San Diego. He started his journey from San Francisco on February 5, 1857, and left Los Angeles on October 13, 1857 to return to San Francisco aboard the steamship Seabird.

Note

* Account of a Tour of the California Missions, 1856; the Journal & Drawings of Henry Miller. San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1952.

Folsom BANC PIC 1905.00006--B:01