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Gomez de la Cortina Family Stereograph Collection, ca. 1870-1906
BANC PIC 1992.054--STER
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Collection Title: Gomez de la Cortina Family Stereograph Collection
Date: ca. 1870-1906
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1992.054--STER
Photographer:
Gomez de la Cortina family
J. J. Reilly
Carleton E. Watkins
I. W. Taber
Eadweard
Muybridge
Extent:
32 photographic prints ; stereograph ; 9 x 18 cm.
32 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], Gomez de la Cortina Family Stereograph Collection, ca. 1870-1906, BANC PIC 1992.054--STER, 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.
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 92/91 m:
Title: Gomez de la Cortina and Alvarez Rul Family Papers, ca. 1740-1925?,
The Gomez de la Cortina family photographs were purchased by The Bancroft Library in 1991. They were transferred from the
Gomez de la Cortina and Alvarez Rul family papers (BANC MSS 92/91 m).
The Gomez de la Cortina collection consists of 32 stereographs collected by the Gomez de la Cortina family, apparently on
a tour of the United States. The stereographs date from 1870-1906. The stereographs are photographic prints, except number
24, which is a tissue stereograph. The collection contains work by various photographers: Underwood & Underwood, George W.
Griffith, American Stereoscopic Co., Pan American Publishing Co., Keystone View Company, J. J. Reilly, I. W. Taber, Carleton
E. Watkins, Strohmeyer & Wyman, E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., B. W. Kilburn, and
Eadweard
Muybridge
. Includes images of President McKinley visiting California, and views of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Yosemite, Berkeley,
San Jose, Oakland, and Alaska.
Eadweard
Muybridge
. Includes images of President McKinley visiting California, and views of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Yosemite, Berkeley,
San Jose, Oakland, and Alaska.
Some items have photographer's numbers, photographer's series, date published, name of publisher, or place published. The
versos of the stereographs have manuscript notes in Spanish. A few stereographs have extensive printed captions in English
on their versos. Printed captions which appear below the photographs are reprinted in the container listing. Handwritten captions
are indicated with parentheses surrounding the text. Bracketed information was supplied for the container list.