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Dresel and Bancroft family photographs.
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Dresel and Bancroft family photographsCreator/Contributor:
Underwood & UnderwoodAbstract:
Photographs, postcards and ephemera pertaining to the Dresel family of Sonoma County and San Francisco, and to Sacramento
printer Roger E. Bancroft and family. Photographs depict the Dresel family and associates, and the majority date from 1906
to 1935. Of chief interest is an album of 1906, captioned in German and inscribed to Tante Luise, of high quality amateur
photographs of the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and fire, the (Gustave?) Dresel family house on Vallejo Street
at Baker Street, a young Carmelita Dresel, and numerous Dresel children in Sonoma County. Collection also includes snapshot
stereographs, some depicting Dresel family members, taken in and around Point Lobos and the Highlands Inn at Carmel; at the
Walter Bunsdschu family home in Sonoma County; and the Big Sur area. Also includes a small album of 1906 photographs of "The
Vista", a country cottage in an unknown location; commercial stereographs depicting various locations in the U.S.A. and abroad
and assorted postcards and greeting cards. A small amount of correspondence (with inconsequential content), addressed envelopes,
and miscellaneous ephemera chiefly pertains to Roger E. Bancroft or Dorothy Bancroft Dresel.
Date:
ca. 1900-ca. 1964, bulk 1906-1935 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caGerman Americans -- California -- Photographs
Vintners -- California -- Napa County -- Photographs
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Photographs
Américains d'origine allemande -- Californie -- Photographies
Négociants en vins -- Californie -- Napa (Comté) -- Photographies
Tremblement de terre de San Francisco, Calif., 1906 -- Photographies
Families
German Americans
Vintners
Point Lobos State Reserve (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Carmel (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Sonoma County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Point Lobos State Reserve (Calif.) -- Ouvrages illustrés
California
California -- Carmel
California -- Napa County
California -- Point Lobos State Reserve
California -- Sonoma County
Bancroft, Roger E
Dresel, Carl -- 1851- -- Family -- Pictorial works
Note:
Various unknown photographers. Commercial stereographs by Underwood & Underwood.
Includes correspondence, ephemera and other papers.
Title devised by cataloger.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.
Purchase ; From Mark Baker Enterprises ; 2012.
Roger E. Bancroft was a Sacramento-based printer whose family appears to have relocated from Pennsylvania to California after
1910. His aunt Dorothy Mae Bancroft married Julius Dresel (born 1889), a son of Carl Dresel (born 1851) and his wife Rosa
Gundlach (of the family that founded the Gundlach Bundschu winery). The Dresel family members pictured among these snapshots
are children and grandchildren of Julius Dresel (born 1816). Julius Dresel was a pioneer vintner in Sonoma County and brother
of Emil Dresel of the early California lithographic partnership Kuchel & Dresel. Carmelita Dresel, pictured, was a daughter
of Dr. Gustave Dresel of San Francisco, son of Julius.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Photograph albums.
Postcards.
Stereographs.
Physical Description:
photoprint
1 box (ca. 120 photographic prints and ca. 140 postcards) and 1 negative : b&w and color ; 9 x 18 cm or smaller.
Language:
mul
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.