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El Camino Real archive.
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Title:

El Camino Real archive

Creator/Contributor:

El Camino Real Association, creator

Creator/Contributor:

Forbes, A. S. C., Mrs

Creator/Contributor:

Maude, F. H. (Frederic Hamer)

Abstract:

Scrapbook of newsclippings (ca. 1904-1911) and some correspondence about the creation of the state highway along El Camino Real, linking the California missions. Lantern slides of El Camino Real, missions before and after restoration, and of related prints and documents. Related views include adobes, the Stillwell Hotel (Los Angeles) and historic sites of Spanish California. Glass negatives are chiefly copies of plans and prints related to the missions. Also includes composite lantern slides by F.H. Maude which exhibit humorous "trick" photography such as a spirit photograph, a man dining with himself, and carving his own head at the table

Date:

approximately 1900-ca. 1920 (issued)

Subject:

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Spanish mission buildings -- California -- Photographs
Adobe houses -- California -- Photographs
Missions espagnoles (Édifices) -- Californie -- Photographies
Adobe houses
Spanish mission buildings
El Camino Real (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
El Camino Real (Calif.)
California
California -- El Camino Real
El Camino Real Association.

Note:

Many lantern slides by F.H. Maude. Original photographers unknown.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
SCRAPBOOK (BANC PIC 1999.036--PIC): RESTRICTED DUE TO FRAGILE CONDITION: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Compiled by Mrs. A.S.C. Forbes.
Bell souvenir transferred to the Historical Object Miscellany of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 19xx.031:126--OBJ).

Type:

graphic
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Lantern slides.
Humorous pictures.
Spirit photographs.
Composite photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Clippings.

Physical Description:

photonegative
slide
16 boxes (approximately 174 glass slides and approximately 15 glass negatives), 1 scrapbook (newsclippings), 1 bell souvenir, 1 printed book : many slides hand colored

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
SCRAPBOOK (BANC PIC 1999.036--PIC): RESTRICTED DUE TO FRAGILE CONDITION: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.