The photographs arrived at the Huntington in 1924 when, after persistent negotiations, she sold some 1200 glass plate negatives and her "catalogue set of blue prints" to Henry E. Huntingotn and his library for several thousand dollars.* In her...
This collection contains photographs of citrus orchards, citrus fruit (lemons and oranges), workers in the field, and citrus fairs. Several companies show up in the photographs including the California Fruit Growers Exchange, San Dimas Lemon...
Title is in English. The eighteen vessels are, from top to bottom, in numerical order: Number 1, Festivale, Carnival Cruise Lines, starboard view; Number 2, Coral Princess, China Navigation Company, starboard view; Number 3, Fairstar, Sitmar Line,...
This small collection contains 16 photographs taken on Mount Wilson. Many of the scenes include historic camp sites in the San Gabriel Mountains including Strain's and Martin's. Photographs were taken by Stiffler & Gill.
The collection comprises 66 items including 23 travel letters, 15 diaries, 4 scrapbooks, 22 photographs and 2 pieces of miscellaneous ephemera. The travel letters cover two trips taken by Mary Catton: 1. Trip to Japan, China, Hong Kong, Cambodia,...
The Singleton Collection is organized into four discrete yet interrelated units. The first consists of 79 photographs by Mathew Brady (1823-1896) and Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) of scenes of the Civil War taken between 1861 and 1865. Included are...
John Bachmann, Publisher 115 & 117 Nassau St., New York. Drawn from Nature and Lith. by John Bachmann. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861 by John Bachmann in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Southern...
The collection contains Bruff's oversize revised version of his journal (c. 1853) which documents his journey across the plains in 1849 by way of Lassen's Trail. Also included in the collection are 264 drawings of scenes from his overland journey,...
Image of an elevated landscape view of the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, from a lookout point near High Rock where people in formal dress talk and look at the view; 8 references printed in margin and a small vignette with the city's seal in the...
Image of three views: an elevated landscape view of Newburgh, New York, from across the Hudson River with steam ferry and sailboats in the foreground in lower half; an eye-level view of American Revolutionary War General Henry Knox's military...
Image of an elevated landscape view of the residence of Sheldon Purdy Pharis (born 1828) in San Mateo County, California, showing farmers harvesting hay with horse drawn carts, and rolling hills and the Pacific Ocean in the distance; four corner...
To Commodore Sir Peter Parker Knt. &. &c. &c. This View is Most humbly Dedicated and Presented by Lt. Colonel Thos. James Rl. Rt. of Artillery, Five Fathom Hole, South Carolina, June 29th, 1776.
To Commodore Sir Peter Parker Knt. &c.&c.&c. This view is Most humbly Dedicated and Presented by Lt. Colonel Thos. James Rl. Rt. of Artillery June 30th., 1776.
Image of an elevated landscape view of the town of Galena, Illinois, shown from a hillside with a family and dog in the foreground, and the city and the Mississippi River with steamboats, below; location key printed in margin.
Image of five eye-level street views of commercial buildings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Granite, Walnut, Dock, and Front Streets composed as architectural drawings.
Image of an aerial landscape view of Provincetown, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, showing the Provincetown Harbor, ships in the water, the shoreline, the town with buildings, streets, docks, and beaches, and the Atlantic Ocean in the distance;...