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Views from a Trip to California, ca. 1887-1889
BANC PIC 1905.06484-.06485 — PIC
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Collection Title: Views from a Trip to California,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1887-1889
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1905.06484-.06485 — PIC
Extent:
217 photographic prints, albumen, various sizes.
207 digital objects
Collector:
Harriet S. Tolman
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],
Views from a Trip to California, BANC PIC 1905.06484-.06485 — 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.
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The Views from a Trip to California collection contains 217 photographic prints collected by Harriet S. Tolman during a trip
to California from 1888 to 1889. The dated prints range from 1887 to 1889, though many undated prints are likely to have been
published earlier. The prints are primarily commercial views by popular photographers of the time depicting locales which
Tolman presumably visited. California regions featured in the collection include Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pasadena, Santa
Barbara, Ventura County, Monterey, and the Mojave Desert. Many California Missions are featured, including San Gabriel, San
Diego, San Luis Rey, San Fernando, San Juan Capistrano, San Buenaventura, Santa Barbara, La Purisima, San Carlos de Borromeo,
and Dolores. Several well-captioned prints picture California flora such as palms, cacti, pampas grass, grape vines, and oaks,
as well as pepper, persimmon, oleander, banana, orange, lemon and fig trees. Other notable California subjects include the
Raymond Hotel, the residence of Jason and Owen Brown (sons of the abolitionist John Brown), the Hotel Del Coronado, the Mexico-California
boundary monument, Sweet Water Dam, Rancho Camulos, Matilija Canyon, the De la Guerra residence, the Hotel Del Monte, Yosemite
Valley, and San Francisco's Palace Hotel and Chinatown.
Non-California subjects pictured in the collection include Utah, featuring Salt Lake City, Price Canyon and Sierra La Sal;
Colorado, featuring the Marshall Pass, Georgetown and the Georgetown Loop of the Union Pacific Railroad, the Curecanti Needle,
the Garden of the Gods, Cheyenne Mountain, Williams Canyon and the Manitou Grand Caverns; Indian scenes of Santa Fe, New Mexico;
and Arizona flora.
The collection includes the work of many noteworthy photographers, including William H. Jackson, Charles R. Savage, Isaiah
W. Taber, F.H. Rogers, and J.C. Brewster.
The prints are still affixed to the loose, captioned pages of what was presumably their original album. Viewing prints are
provided for 10 oversize photographs which are shelved separately.
The collection contains no information regarding the identity of Harriet S. Tolman.