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[Berkeley and California views from Mrs. Leonora Hoar].
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[Berkeley and California views from Mrs. Leonora Hoar]Creator/Contributor:
Hoar, Leonora Leland, 1881-1976, creator, creator.Abstract:
Collection comprises 1 card mounted albumen photograph and 13 snapshots. The card mounted photograph is an overview of the
California School for the Deaf in the 1890s, taken from the hills to the east and providing an overview of the south side
of Berkeley toward the San Francisco Bay. Snapshots depict the road approaching the School for the Deaf; Sather Tower at the
University of California, Berkeley; Mill Valley from Mount Tamalpais; the South Coast Paper Mill in Soquel; a horse and carriage
in Santa Cruz County (with Leonora Brimmer's father); and ruins of San Francisco City Hall after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire.
Seven Yosemite snapshots are present: a man at Glacier Point (on "Cannon Rock"), Yosemite Falls (2), El Capitan, Half Dome
[sic; actually Mount Watkins] and Mirror Lake, a Yosemite trail, and a valley overview with Half Dome.
Date:
1890 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPaper mills -- California -- Photographs
Papeteries (Usines) -- Californie -- Photographies
Paper mills
Berkeley (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Ouvrages illustrés
California
California -- Berkeley
California -- Yosemite National Park
California School for the Deaf -- Pictorial works
Sather Tower (Berkeley, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
California School for the Deaf.
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Collected and possibly photographed, in part, by Mrs. Leonora (Brimmer) Hoar, who was an 1899 graduate of the California School
for the Deaf.
Gift ; Of Isabel M. Lester, courtesy of Mrs. Leonora Hoar ; 1964.
Berkeley and California views from Mrs. Leonora Hoar, BANC PIC 1964.085, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Physical Description:
photoprint
14 photographs : albumen and gelatin silver prints ; 11 x 20 cm or smaller.
Language:
English