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Some views around Vallejo and Mare Island, ca. 1865-ca. 1910
BANC PIC 1995.022--B
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Collection Title: Some Views Around Vallejo and Mare Island
Date: ca. 1865-ca. 1910
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1995.022--B
Creator:
Smith, J. G. (James Girard)
Extent:
126 photographic prints: 29 stereographs, 9 x 18 cm.; 1 carte de visite, 7 x 10 cm.; 70 cyanotypes, various sizes, mounted
on 37 x 31 cm. leaves; 26 albumen prints, various sizes, bulk mounted.
120 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
Collection is available for use.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted
in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library
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.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted
to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Some Views Around Vallejo and Mare Island, ca. 1865-ca. 1910, BANC PIC 1995.022--B, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley
Digital Representations 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.
Some Views Around Vallejo and Mare Island was purchased in 1994.
Some Views Around Vallejo and Mare Island contains 126 photographic prints of the Vallejo and Mare Island vicinity taken circa
1865 to circa 1910. Included are many early townscapes of Vallejo as well as views of many of its institutions and commercial
areas, such as the Good Templar's Home for Orphans, the Frisbie House, Plummer & Robinson, Star Mills, The Methodist Episcopal
Church, the Church of the Ascension, Georgia Street, Santa Clara Street, Virginia Street, school buildings, the local rectory,
and some private residences, including that of A. Powell. Also featured prominently in the collection is the Mare Island Navy
Yard. Included are several photographs of ships and dry dock activity, street scenes, buildings, beaches, a U.S. Navy graveyard,
and the Mare Island waterfront. Forming a large portion of the collection are the loose pages of an undated album entitled
Some Views Around Vallejo and Mare Island. The pages contain mounted and captioned cyanotypes of the Mare Island Navy Yard, the town of Vallejo and its environs --including
the Green Valley Falls, then a new source of Vallejo's water supply --and other miscellaneous subjects such as persons from
the Sandwich Islands, a Kanacka warrior, a shipwreck in Samoa, and a scene from Honolulu, Hawaii.
The collection also contains several portraits of unidentified men, most of them taken by Vallejo photographer James G. Smith.
Other photographers featured in the collection include Carleton E. Watkins, Thomas Houseworth, Strohmeyer & Wyman, "Topley,"
"Halsey," Charles H. Carlson, Charles McMillan, John David Godeus, and Oliver Denny.
Names found on some of the mount versos include Mary E. Leavey, Mrs. Lawton, E.D. Rule, and James Turner.