Dressler's Pioneer Place, ca. 1920s, ca. 1920s
Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Dressler's Pioneer Place
- Dates:
- ca. 1920s
- Creators:
- Albert Dressler
- Extent:
- 21 photographic prints in 1 album; black and white; 19 x 29 cm. 21 digital objects
- Language:
- Collection materials are in English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Dressler's Pioneer Place, ca. 1920s, BANC PIC 1987.041--ALB, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Dressler's Pioneer Place album contains 21 black and white photographs dating from the 1920s. One photograph is dated September, 1929. Dressler's Pioneer Place was a business and apparent historical museum located at 2282 Fulton Street, Berkeley, California. The Place seems to have been an antique or curio shop, or a venue for humorous historical reenactments. Views of people in historical costume, sets, Albert Dressler, and the store front are shown. The album also contains "My Thirteen Demandments," a printed list of humorous business ethics. The album's photographer is unknown.
- Biographical / historical:
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Albert Dressler was a writer and publisher in the San Francisco Bay Area. Among the publications to his credit are Ernest Narjot: California's Pioneer Artist, California's Pioneer Circus, California's Pioneer Mountaineer, Emperor Norton of the United States, California Chinese Chatter, California's Pioneer Mountaineer of Rabbit Creek, and others. He also operated the Merry Way Publishing Company in San Francisco.
- Acquisition information:
- Purchased 1987
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1997
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid generated by GenX; markup validated by The Bancroft Library using CDL validation tools; Date of source: May 2015
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is available for use
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Dressler's Pioneer Place, ca. 1920s, BANC PIC 1987.041--ALB, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- 510-642-6481