Collection Guide
Brief record only
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
[Freimark family photograph albums documenting travels in California, Mexico and other locations in the West].
Collection Number:
No online items
Collection Overview
Title:
[Freimark family photograph albums documenting travels in California, Mexico and other locations in the West]Abstract:
Snapshot photograph albums documenting travels and everyday scenes in the life of electrical engineer Max Freimark who worked
for the Cananea Mining Co. in Sonora, Mexico. Images depict Freimark, his wife Victoria and other family members and friends,
chiefly during their travels through California, Mexico and other locations in the Western U.S. Subjects and points of interest
depicted include group outings in the vicinity of the Cananea Copper Mine (later renamed the Buenavista mine); views of the
mining facilities; unidentified Sonora landscapes; the Freimark house in Cananea; scenery along the Redwood Highway; Pasadena;
Indio; Long Beach; Venice (including scenes of construction of canals and arched buildings); San Pedro; Hotel Redondo; Catalina
Island and Catalina Bay; Hotel Coronado; Ocean Park; San Gabriel Mission; Santa Barbara; Mt. Lowe; San Francisco (Cliff House,
Golden Gate Park, Playland, waterfront, Hotel St. Francis, Seal Rocks); El Paso; Ciudad Juárez; biplane flights with aviator
James Clifford Turpin; Boulder Dam; and Crater Lake (Oregon).
Date:
1905 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-mx---Leisure -- California -- Photographs
Copper mines and mining -- Mexico -- Photographs
Loisir -- Californie -- Photographies
Cuivre -- Mines et extraction -- Mexique -- Photographies
California -- Photographs
Sonora (Mexico : State) -- Photographs
Californie -- Photographies
Sonora (Mexique : État) -- Photographies
Freimark family -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Compiled by Friemark family members.
Many images described in typescript captions, in English, adhered to album leaves. Other images include captions written in
negative.
Purchase from Zephyr Used & Rare Books ; 2022.
Freimark family photograph albums documenting travels in California, Mexico and other locations in the West, BANC PIC 2023.109,
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 135 photographs in 2 albums : chiefly gelatin silver prints adhered to album leaves ; prints various sizes,
albums 15 x 19 cm
Language:
English