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Steven S. Norris Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: PC -047
Dates:
1840-1983; Majority of material found in 1979
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
Patti J. Walters photographs of San Francisco, 1971-1974
Collection
Identifier: PC -031
Abstract
Comprises 81 digital image files (76 JPEGs and 5 TIFFs) of San Francisco street photography, digitized by the photographer from 35mm negatives. A majority of the photographs were taken in downtown San Francisco: Market Street, Union Square, and Portsmouth Square. Other photos were taken at Golden Gate Park, Ocean Beach, and one at Playland.
Dates:
1971-1974
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
Minor White photographs
Collection
Identifier: PC-RM-White
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 479 black and white gelatin silver prints and 423 gelatin silver print negatives of urban and rural postwar Bay Area and greater Northern California taken by photographer Minor White while he resided in San Francisco from 1946 to 1953. The bulk of the photographs document San Francisco county neighborhoods, including the downtown financial and produce districts; the Embarcadero and waterfront; and the Potrero, Mission, Glen Park, Bayshore, Nob Hill, Chinatown,...
Dates:
1946-1953
Found in:
California Historical Society
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- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 20
- Yosemite Valley (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 8
- Streets -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works 5
- Photographic prints 4
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Pictorial works 4
- Stereographs 4
- Giant sequoia -- Pictorial works 3
- Mines and mineral resources -- California -- Pictorial works 3
- Photograph albums 3
- Placer County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 3
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- Sonoma County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 3
- Albumen prints 2
- Amador County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 2
- Architecture, Domestic -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works 2
- Business enterprises -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works 2
- Calaveras County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 2
- Cartes de visite 2
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works 2
- Daguerreotypes 2
- Donner Lake (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 2
- Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works 2
- Fires -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works 2
- Floods -- California -- Sacramento -- Pictorial works 2
- Fresno County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 2
- Hydraulic mining -- California -- Yuba River -- Pictorial works 2
- Los Angeles County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 2
- Mammoth Tree Grove (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 2
- Marin County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 2
- Mendocino County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 2
- Monterey County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 2
- Optometry 2
- Panoramic photographs 2
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- Photographic prints -- California -- San Francisco 2
- Plants -- California -- Pictorial works 2
- Portrait photographs 2
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- San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- Pictorial works 2
- San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works 2
- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) -- Pictorial works 2
- Washo Indians -- Pictorial works 2
- Account books 1
- Achomawi Indians -- California -- Pictorial works 1
- Alameda County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 1
- Alcatraz Island (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 1
- Amateur films. 1
- Ambrotypes (photographs). 1
- Arroyo Seco Parkway (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Pictorial works 1
- Artifacts 1
- Atherton (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 1
- Autochromes (photographs). 1
- Beet sugar industry -- California 1
- Bonnie Brae Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
- Boudoir card photographs 1
- Bridalveil Fall (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 1
- Buildings -- Natural disaster effects -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs 1
- Business districts -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works 1
- Business records 1
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- California -- Gold discoveries -- Pictorial works 1
- California -- Pictorial works 1
- California -- San Francisco -- Commerce 1
- California, Northern -- Pictorial works 1
- California, Southern -- Pictorial works 1
- Cased photographs. 1
- Children -- Portraits 1
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
- Chinese American children -- Pictorial works 1
- Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works 1
- Church buildings -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works 1
- Cityscape photographs -- California -- San Francisco 1
- Commerce -- California 1
- Commercial portraiture. 1
- Comptche (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 1
- Contra Costa County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 1
- Correspondence 1
- Cut foliage-Photographs. 1
- Cyanotypes 1
- Dams -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works 1
- Deeds 1
- Diaries 1
- Drag balls -- Pictorial works 1
- Drawings (visual works). 1
- Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- 1868 -- Pictorial works 1
- Ephemera 1
- Ethnic neighborhoods -- California -- San Francisco County -- Pictorial works 1
- Eureka Valley (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works 1
- Excelsior District (San Francisco, Calif.)--History--Pictorial works. 1
- Executions and executioners -- California -- Pictorial works 1
- Families -- Portraits 1
- Fort Ord (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 1
- Gay pride parades -- California -- Sacramento Valley -- Pictorial works 1
- Gay pride parades -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works 1
- Gelatin silver film negatives 1
- Gelatin silver prints 1
- Genealogies 1
- Geysers, The (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 1
- Glass plate negatives 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- De Losada, Dorothy Elizabeth Baget, 1921-2010 1
- Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942 1
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