Gomez de la Cortina Family Stereograph Collection, ca. 1870-1906

Summary

Creators:

Gomez de la Cortina family J. J. Reilly Carleton E. Watkins I. W. Taber Eadweard Muybridge

Extent:

32 photographic prints ; stereograph ; 9 x 18 cm. 32 digital objects

Language:

Collection materials are in English

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Gomez de la Cortina Family Stereograph Collection, ca. 1870-1906, BANC PIC 1992.054--STER, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Background

Scope and content:

The Gomez de la Cortina collection consists of 32 stereographs collected by the Gomez de la Cortina family, apparently on a tour of the United States. The stereographs date from 1870-1906. The stereographs are photographic prints, except number 24, which is a tissue stereograph. The collection contains work by various photographers: Underwood & Underwood, George W. Griffith, American Stereoscopic Co., Pan American Publishing Co., Keystone View Company, J. J. Reilly, I. W. Taber, Carleton E. Watkins, Strohmeyer & Wyman, E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., B. W. Kilburn, and Eadweard Muybridge. Includes images of President McKinley visiting California, and views of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Yosemite, Berkeley, San Jose, Oakland, and Alaska.

Some items have photographer's numbers, photographer's series, date published, name of publisher, or place published. The versos of the stereographs have manuscript notes in Spanish. A few stereographs have extensive printed captions in English on their versos. Printed captions which appear below the photographs are reprinted in the container listing. Handwritten captions are indicated with parentheses surrounding the text. Bracketed information was supplied for the container list.

Acquisition information:

The Gomez de la Cortina family photographs were purchased by The Bancroft Library in 1991. They were transferred from the Gomez de la Cortina and Alvarez Rul family papers (BANC MSS 92/91 m).

Rules or conventions:

Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Related resources

Related material:

BANC MSS 92/91 m: Gomez de la Cortina and Alvarez Rul Family Papers, ca. 1740-1925?,

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.

Restrictions:

Collection is 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], Gomez de la Cortina Family Stereograph Collection, ca. 1870-1906, BANC PIC 1992.054--STER, 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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