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Missions -- California -- Pictorial works

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

General Subjects Photography collection,

 Collection
Identifier: PC-GS: Box [number]
Abstract

Contains photographs and picture postcards depicting scenes of California places, people, activities, and cultural resources from the 1850s to the 1980s.

Dates: 1850s-1980s; Majority of material found in (Bulk 1870s-1970s)

Rieder, M. , 1901-1915

 Series — Box 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This stereograph collection is comprised of 513 stereographs that date from approximately 1846-1940. There are stereoviews from 24 different publishers and photographers, made up of donations from a many different donors, many unknown. Additionally, there are 21 images with no identifying information at the end of the finding aid. Stereograph publishers often bought other photographers’ negatives, and there was much sharing and republishing of the work of certain photographers, sometimes...
Dates: 1901-1915

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