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Laura Adams Armer photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: PC-RM-Armer
Abstract
Collection consists of one photograph album and 57 photographic prints taken by photographer Laura Adams Armer in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1899 and 1939. The photograph album includes portraits of family and community members, political candidates, artists, photographers, sculptors and writers. The mounted photographic prints depict various locations in San Francisco, including Chinatown, the waterfront, Telegraph Hill, downtown, and general views of the city. Most photographs...
Dates:
circa 1899-1939
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
Photograph album of Chinese criminals
Collection
Identifier: Vault 185
Dates:
circa 1872
Found in:
California Historical Society
Photograph album of Chinese men and women in Sierra County
Collection
Identifier: Vault 184
Dates:
1890-1930; Majority of material found in 1894
Found in:
California Historical Society
Photographs from Peoples Temple records
Collection
Identifier: MSP 3800
Dates:
1959-1982; Majority of material found within 1972-1978
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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