Harvesting Beans, Madera County, Calif., 1900, 1900

Summary

Title:

Harvesting Beans, Madera County, Calif.,

Dates:

1900

Extent:

1 album (7 photographic prints, 10 x 13 cm. or smaller); 18 x 15 cm. 8 digital objects

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Harvesting Beans, Madera County, Calif., 1900, BANC PIC 1983.172 --PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Background

Scope and content:

The Harvesting Beans album contains seven photographic prints taken in 1900 by an unidentified photographer. The album features scenes of unidentified Indian women performing various harvesting activities in an unspecified location of Madera County. The photographs also picture papooses, children working, two young men with bows and arrows, an older man on a horse, a tepee formed from a bush, and other farm structures. The type of beans pictured in the album is not identified.

The album's title, "Natives Harvesting Beans, Madera Co., Calif., 1900," is hand-written in gold ink on the front cover. Hand-written captions appear beneath the photographs on the album's leaves. The interleaved papers bear the watermark of Saxony Linen and the copyright stamp of L.A.R. Peckinpah, of Yountville, Napa County, California. The album's binding is hand-stitched.

Acquisition information:

The Harvesting Beans album was acquired in 1983 from an unknown source.

Related resources

Alternative form available:

Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were copied onto 35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and the Photo CD files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Processed by Chris McDonald.

Date Prepared:

1997

Date Encoded:

Machine-readable finding aid was created using various methods. The container list was automatically generated from the California Heritage Digital Image Access Project control database using perl; the contextual information was partially derived from existing text, with additional information added during the editing process. Date of source: December 1996 . Machine-readable finding aid created by Padma Rubiales

Restrictions:

Collection if available for use.

Terms of access:

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:

[Identification of item], Harvesting Beans, Madera County, Calif., 1900, BANC PIC 1983.172 --PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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