Views of California and Other Western States, ca. 1890-1901

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Summary

Extent:
221 photographic prints, various sizes; compiled in album, 29 x 37 cm. 221 digital objects
Language:
Collection materials are in English

Background

Scope and content:

The Views of California and Other Western States album contains 221 photographic prints taken from circa 1890 to 1901, the year of the album's compilation. Although the majority of the album's photographs are of California subjects, there are also several of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming locales, as well as other western states, Canada, and New York. California points of interest include Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove, Marin County, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Mt. Lowe, Redlands, Riverside, Hotel Del Coronado, Santa Barbara and vicinity, Monterey and Hotel Del Monte, Santa Cruz and the Felton Big Trees, San Jose and the Lick Observatory of Mt. Hamilton, Stanford University, Mt. Shasta and vicinity, several views of San Francisco, and the Missions San Gabriel, San Diego, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Barbara, Carmel and Dolores.

Among the Colorado points of interest included are Denver, Pike's Peak, the Garden of the Gods, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, and the Georgetown Loop of the Union Pacific Railway. Salt Lake City, Utah is pictured in several prints, as are Yellowstone National Park and the Teton Mountains of Wyoming. The album also contains photographs of Portland, Mt. Hood, and Willamette Falls, Oregon; Tacoma, Mt. St. Helens, Pt. Defiance, and Mt. Rainier, Washington; Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; and the Pan-American Exposition held in Buffalo, New York in 1901.

Noted photographers featured in the collection include Isaiah W. Taber, George Fiske, Charles R. Savage, William Henry Jackson, F.P. Stevens, C.D. Arnold, and Herbert A. Hale.

Acquisition information:
The Views of California and other Western States album was purchased in 1984.
Rules or conventions:
Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Location of this collection:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
Contact:
510-642-6481
bancref-library@berkeley.edu
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