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Photograph album consisting of 116 black and white gelatin silver photographic prints documenting a family vacation in 1895-1905. Photographs show primarily women travelers to the Hotel Russell in Monte Rio, Sonoma County, California, and the Terrace Grove Hotel in an unidentified location. The women are photographed participating in recreational activities such as boating, hiking in a Redwood forest, and picnicking.

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Photograph album comprises black and white photographs and photographic postcards showing a vacation trip to Mount Hermon, Santa Cruz County in 1922. The images show the environs of Mount Hermon Park, which served as a Christian retreat camp located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Photograph album containing 51 sepia, gelatin silver prints showing the construction of the Pardee Dam, near Valley Springs, California, as part of the Mokelumne River Project by Atkinson Construction Company in 1927-1929.

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...

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Photograph album containing 13 black and white, silver gelatin photographic prints showing the stages of construction of Winehaven at Point Molate, Richmond, California between 1907 and 1909.