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Taber (Isaiah West) California Scenery, San Francisco, ca. 1885

Owning Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

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The California Scenery album contains 41 mounted prints taken circa 1885 by I.W. Taber, perhaps while on a photographic expedition along the California coast. The general areas featured in the album are San Diego, Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San Francisco Bay. San Diego area photographs include townscapes, beach scenes, Point Loma, San Diego's Old Town, the Horton House, the Russ School, scenes of an Indian rancheria, and views of the Mexico-United States boundary monument and Tia Guana (i.e. Tia Juana?) Hot Sulphur Springs. Santa Barbara area scenes include the residence of William Wells Hollister, the Arlington House, the Santa Barbara Mission, Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara townscapes, and a large grape vine. The grounds of Monterey's Hotel Del Monte are featured, as are San Francisco's Cliff House, Point Lobos, Fort Point, Black Point, and harbor area, all viewed from San Francisco Bay.... View collection guide.

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41 items found in this collection

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Arlington House. W.N. Cowles, Proprietor, Santa Barbara.--B1308
Big Grape-vine Santa Barbara.--B1312
Black Point, San Francisco, Cal. [California]--B1291
Carpet Gardening in front of Hotel del Monte.--B1384
Club House and [Carpet?] Gardening, Hotel Del Monte.--B1385
[Crew on unidentified vessel]
Estudillo House, 116 years old, Old Town, San Diego.--B1321
Fort Point, and Alcatraz, S [San] F [Francisco], Cal. [California]--B1298
Garden, Santa Barbara Mission.--A418
Glen Annie, Residence of Col. W.W. Hollister, Santa Barbara.--A430
Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara.--B1336
Horton House, W.E. Hadley Proprietor, San Diego.--B1306
Indian Rancheria near San Diego.--A428
Indian Rancheria near San Diego.--B1325
Indian Rancheria near San Diego.--B1326
[Interior, Santa Barbara Mission]
Lake at Hotel del Monte.--B1386
Lake at Hotel del Monte.--B1388
[Large family group picnicking on the beach.]
[Large group on porch of building; in group is an old Indian(?) …
Lawn Party, Picnic Grove, Glen Annie, Col. W.W. Hollister's, Santa Barbara, April …
Lawn Party, Picnic Grove, Glen Annie, Col. W.W. Hollister's, Santa Barbara, April …
Lawn Party under the Date Palms, Glen Annie, Col. W.W. Hollister's, Santa …
[Man seated in horse drawn buggy in open landscape]
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