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Frank B. Rodolph Photograph Collection
BANC PIC 1905.17146-17161--PIC
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Collection Title: Frank B. Rodolph Photograph Collection
Date:
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1905.17146-17161--PIC
Extent:
1254 photographs in 16 albums
620 digital objects
Photographer:
Rodolf, Frank B.
Repository:
The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for use.
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.
[Identification of item],
Frank B. Rodolph Photograph Collection, BANC PIC 1905.17146-17161--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Digital Representations 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.
Materials Cataloged Separately
Materials concerning Frank B. Rodolph and the Rodolph family transferred to Manuscripts Division and cataloged with call number
BANC MSS 95/103 c.
The Frank B. Rodolph Photograph Collection was a gift of Margaret E. Schlichtmann, February 2, 1968.
Frank Bequette Rodolph (1843-1923) was a commercial photographer active in Oakland during the 1870s and 1880s. Born in Wisconsin,
he and his family traveled overland to California in 1850. They settled first in Placerville and later operated a ranch on
Cache Creek. Moving to Oakland in 1869, Rodolph attended business college and opened a stationery store on Broadway in partnership
with his father. The store also sold school books and sheet music, and in the 1880s Rodolph began doing printing work as well.
Many of his photographs were taken on his extensive travels throughout California.
The Frank B. Rodolph collection consists of 1254 original photographs taken by Rodolph and associates, including Isaiah W.
Taber. The Taber photographs, primarily of Alaska, can be found in volume 14 (BANC PIC 1905.17159). Rodolph's subjects include
a variety of cityscapes, residences and other buildings chiefly of the San Francisco Bay Area, Sonoma County, Santa Cruz and
Monterey areas of California. Many of the photographs are of recreational and leisure activities, including outings of a Bay
Area group of photographers (including Rodolph) who called themselves "the Merry Tramps." Numbers in parentheses on the caption
lists are photographer's numbers that appear on the photographs. Captions on the container listing were provided by the donor
of the collection, Margaret E. Schlichtmann.