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Ansel Adams photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: PC-RM-Adams
Abstract

Contains 26 black and white photographic prints taken by Ansel Easton Adams. Date of creation of photographs is unknown, although notations on back of some photographs indicate they were taken prior to 1936. Photographs include nature and landscape scenes; portraits; and city scenes of San Francisco. There are two sets of photographs showing murals by Diego Rivera and Gottardo Piazzoni. Also includes two photographs Adams took for the American Trust Company.

Dates: circa 1936

Burr-Allyne family papers and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS 717
Abstract Comprises correspondence, genealogies, personal papers, ephemera, business records, legal records, property records, photographs, motion picture films, and artifacts documenting the personal and professional activities of the Burr-Allyne family in San Francisco and California from 1839 to the early 2000s. Papers include significant holdings of correspondence by John Winslow Allyne, Mary Newell Burr Allyne, Lucy Helen Allyne, Edith Winslow Allyne, Ephraim Willard Burr, Edmund Coffin Burr,...
Dates: 1839-2012

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

California stereoviews,

 Collection
Identifier: PC-RM-Stereos: Box 06
Dates: ca. 1870

James B. Case slides of highway construction in California

 Collection — Box: P007
Identifier: PC -039
Abstract

Collection comprises 102 35 mm color Kodachrome transparency slides documenting construction of highways in Los Angeles, Orick, and San Francisco, California; training at Fort Ord army base; and a Case family vacation and recreation in Orick, California taken by James B. Case between 1949 and 1953. Case worked for the California Department of Transportation when taking many of these photographs.

Dates: 1949 - 1953

(Alfred) Clarke's Water Works photograph album

 Collection — Box: 01
Identifier: PC -PA -225
Abstract

Photograph album containing 25 albumen prints of views of Clarke's Water Works, San Francisco, taken by James W. Walton between 1890-1891. The photograph album documents Alfred Clarke's early San Francisco water company, Clarke's Water Works, located in the Glen Park and Eureka Valley neighborhoods of San Francisco.

Dates: 1890 - 1891

Photographs from the Dorothy De Losada papers

 Collection — Container: Box P010
Identifier: MSP-582
Abstract

Collection comprises 15 black and white photographic prints and two photocopies of the front and back of a photographic print documenting Dorothy De Losada's work as a political and union activist between 1946 and 1956.

Dates: 1946 - 1956

Arnold Genthe photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: PC-RM-Genthe
Abstract

Collection of portraits of prominent San Franciscans taken by Arnold Genthe between 1899 and 1920; photographs of the aftermath of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire; and photographs Chinese American inhabitants of San Francisco’s Chinatown between 1895 and 1906. Collection contains film and glass negatives; original photographic prints created by Genthe and copy prints presumably made from the negatives in this collection.

Dates: 1895 - 1925

Alfred A. Hart Stereographs of the Central Pacific Railroad

 Collection — Box: 01
Identifier: PC-RM-Hart
Abstract

Stereographs of the Central Pacific Railroad taken by Alfred A. Hart depicting the construction and surrounding landscape of the Central Pacific Railroad in northern California and Nevada between 1862-1869.

Dates: circa 1865-1869

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

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De Losada, Dorothy Elizabeth Baget, 1921-2010 1
Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942 1