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California lettersheet collection
Collection
Identifier: Kemble Spec Col 09
Abstract
Consists of California lettersheets, mostly pictorial, created approximately between the years 1850 and 1870, with the bulk dating from the 1850s. Pictorial lettersheets are illustrated with lithographs or wood engravings depicting California and Western themes. Intended to be used as stationery during and after the California Gold Rush, these lettersheets served as a kind of reportage, depicting important events and popular stories of the day. Common illustrated topics and scenes include:...
Dates:
circa 1850-1870
Found in:
California Historical Society
Lawrence and Houseworth photograph collection
Collection — Box: P011
Identifier: PC-RM-Lawrence-Houseworth
Abstract
Lawrence and Houseworth were one of the main publishers of stereoviews on the West coast around the 1860s. They sold views primarily of California and Nevada, and the majority of their photographs are of nature scenes, and the wonders of California's redwoods, geysers, lakes and mountains. The collection contains commercial formats - stereographs and cartes de visites. They were taken by photographer Charles Leander Weed and published by Lawrence and Houseworth, who did a brisk business...
Dates:
1860-1870
Found in:
California Historical Society
Stereographs of the Sierra Nevada and other California views,
Collection
Identifier: PC-RM-Stereos: Box 7
Dates:
ca. 1868-1880
Found in:
California Historical Society
Thomas Houseworth and Co. stereograph collection
Collection — Box: P011
Identifier: PC-RM-Houseworth
Abstract
Thomas Houseworth and Co. is the company continued by Thomas Houseworth after his partner George Lawrence retired in 1869. Houseworth was an optometrist and stereograph merchant located in San Francisco, Calif. The images in this collection contain reprints of Lawrence and Houseworth images, as well as newly created images. Houseworth was a major player in the stereograph market until the early 1870s, and he took numerous measures to make sure his work remained viable, including introducing...
Dates:
1868-1869
Found in:
California Historical Society
Carleton E. Watkins photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: PC-RM-Watkins
Abstract
Carleton E. Watkins was a 19th century photographer based in San Francisco who made his name documenting the rapid growth of the American West, and whose name is frequently associated with the birth of the photographic medium – particularly with early landscape photography. This collection contains albumen prints taken throughout his career, between the years of 1856 and 1885. The bulk of photographs taken depict the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove, and were taken at various points...
Dates:
1856-1885
Found in:
California Historical Society
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- Yosemite Valley (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 4
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