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Shasta Springs, July-August 1899, July-August 1899
BANC PIC 1991.036--ALB  
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    Collection Title: Shasta Springs
    Date: July-August 1899
    Collection Number: BANC PIC 1991.036--ALB
    Photographer: Mary McLean Olney.
    Extent: 1 album (90 photographic prints) ; 17 x 16 cm. 90 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

    Information for Researchers

    Access

    The collection is available for use.

    Publication Rights

    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.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Shasta Springs, July-August 1899, BANC PIC 1991.036--ALB, 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.

    Administrative Information

    Acquisition Information

    The Shasta Springs album was acquired from Constance Condit.

    Biography

    Mary McLean Olney was born in Oakland in 1873. She graduated from the University of California in 1895 with majors in English and Latin. After a brief period of teaching at Stanford University, she became the first dean of women at Pomona College, and later was made a trustee at Pomona. She was a member of the National Board of the YWCA, the Berkeley Town and Gown Club, San Francisco's Town and Country Club, and many other civic organizations.
    Her husband was Warren Olney Jr., a former president of the University of California Alumni Association and legal counsel for the Board of Regents. The couple had two sons and one daughter. At her death in 1965 at the age of 92, she was remembered as one of the Berkeley community's most active citizens in civic affairs.
    ( Source: "Mary McLean Olney: Taken by Death at 92," The Berkeley Gazette. August 14, 1965.)

    Scope and Content

    This collection consists of an album of 90 photographic prints of Mount Shasta and vicinity, taken in July and August, 1899. The photographer is probably Mary McLean Olney. Included are images of Mount Shasta and vicinity (including Castle Crags and McCloud), waterfalls (many of Mossbrae Falls), camping, a train, and the lumber mill at McCloud. Captions handwritten below the photographs are reprinted in the container listing.