Collection Summary
Information for Researchers
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Collection Summary
Collection Title: Mendocino County Photographs taken by M.M. Hazeltine
Date (inclusive): circa 1867-1869
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1905.13608-.13651--PIC
Photographer:
Hazeltine, M. M. (Martin Mason), 1827-1903
Extent:
44 photographic prints ; albumen, some hand colored, cartes de visite ; 6 x 10 cm.
48 digital objects
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: Views of Mendocino and vicinity show views of the town (residences, public buildings), lumber mills and related scenes, surrounding
scenery, and an Indian village (showing teepees made of scrap lumber).
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Materials in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction
of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions,
privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond
that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html .
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Mendocino County Photographs taken by M.M. Hazeltine, circa 1867-1869, 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
Title: Logging operations in Little River, California, attributed to M. M. Hazeltine.
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1905.11998-.12002--CDV
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog
California Heritage Project
Indians of North America--California--Mendocino County--Dwellings--Photographs
Lumbering--California--Mendocino County--Photographs
Sawmills--California--Mendocino County--Photographs
Mendocino (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Mendocino County (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Albumen prints
Cartes de visite
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 studio. Largely independently of George, M. M. Hazeltine continued in photography for decades, producing pictures
of Yosemite and other scenic areas California, Oregon, and Idaho. In the mid-1860s (ca. 1866-1867), M. M. Hazeltine moved
to Mendocino; his many photographs taken there and elsewhere were later published by such firms as J. P. Soule and Lawrence
& Houseworth. He entered a partnership with J. J. Reilly in the 1870s based 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. and Palmquist, Peter E., and Kailbourn, Thomas R.
Pioneer Photographers of the Far West. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2000. )
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.