Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Mendocino County Photographs, ca. 1867-1869 , by M. M. Hazeltine
BANC PIC 1905.13608-.13651--PIC  
View entire collection guide What's This?
PDF (135.89 Kb) HTML
Search this collection
Collection Details
 
Table of contents What's This?
  • Collection Summary
  • Information for Researchers
  • Administrative Information
  • Biography
  • Scope and Content

  • Collection Summary

    Collection Title: Mendocino County Photographs,
    Date: ca. 1867-1869
    , by M. M. Hazeltine
    Collection Number: BANC PIC 1905.13608-.13651--PIC
    Extent: 44 photographic prints ; albumen, some hand colored, cartes de visite ; 6 x 10 cm. 48 digital objects
    Photographer: M. M. Hazeltine
    Repository: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
    Berkeley, California 94720-6000
    Languages Represented: English

    Information for Researchers

    Access

    Collection is available for use.

    Publication Rights

    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], Mendocino County Photographs, ca. 1867-1869 , by M. M. Hazeltine, BANC PIC 1905.13608-.13651--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.

    Related Collections

    Title: Photographs of Oregon, California, Idaho, and Other Western Scenes, by M. M. and G. I. Hazeltine, 1857-ca. 1890?
    Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1905.13652-.13974--STER
    Title: Stereoviews of Yosemite : From the American Scenery Series of C. L. Pond. (Photographed by M. M. Hazeltine).
    Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1980.076--STER
    Title: Views Along the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railway Lines, by M. M. Hazeltine, ca. 1870-ca. 1889?
    Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1905.17142--ALB
    Title: William F. Johns Mining Records, 1870-ca. 1910? (Photographed in part by M. M. Hazeltine).
    Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1993.037--B

    Administrative Information

    Acquisition Information

    Unknown

    Biography

    Martin Mason Hazeltine was born on July 31, 1827, in Vermont. He and his brother George I. Hazeltine studied photography in St. Charles, Illinois, and then in New York City. In December of 1853, the two brothers moved to San Francisco where they operated a daguerreotype shop, producing pictures of Yosemite and other California scenic areas. In the mid-1860s, Martin Hazeltine moved to Mendocino; his many photographs taken there were later published by such firms as J. P. Soule and Lawrence & Houseworth. He entered a partnership with J. J. Reilly in the 1870s in Stockton and Yosemite Valley, but returned to Mendocino on and off until the 1880s. In the later part of his life, he lived in Idaho and Oregon. He died in 1903.
    (Source: Treadwell, T. K., and William C. Darrah. Stereographers of the World. Volume II -United States. [Byran, Texas] : National Stereoscopic Association, 1994.)

    Scope and Content

    This collection consists of 44 cartes de visite photographic prints of sites in Mendocino County, taken by M. M. Hazeltine, ca. 1867-1869. Included are images of Mendocino and vicinity, views of the town including residences and public buildings, lumber mills and related scenes, and an Indian village showing teepees made of scrap lumber. Captions are typewritten in a list preceding the photographs and are reprinted in the container listing.