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Vallejo and Mare Island, ca. 1865-ca. 1910 - Views

Owning Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

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Some Views Around Vallejo and Mare Island contains 126 photographic prints of the Vallejo and Mare Island vicinity taken circa 1865 to circa 1910. Included are many early townscapes of Vallejo as well as views of many of its institutions and commercial areas, such as the Good Templar's Home for Orphans, the Frisbie House, Plummer & Robinson, Star Mills, The Methodist Episcopal Church, the Church of the Ascension, Georgia Street, Santa Clara Street, Virginia Street, school buildings, the local rectory, and some private residences, including that of A. Powell. Also featured prominently in the collection is the Mare Island Navy Yard. Included are several photographs of ships and dry dock activity, street scenes, buildings, beaches, a U.S. Navy graveyard, and the Mare Island waterfront. Forming a large portion of the collection are the loose pages of an undated album entitled . The pages contain mounted and captioned cyanotypes of the Mare Island Navy Yard, the town of Vallejo and its environs --including the Green Valley Falls, then a new source of Vallejo's water supply --and other miscellaneous subjects such as persons from the Sandwich Islands, a Kanacka warrior, a shipwreck in Samoa, and a scene from Honolulu, Hawaii.... View collection guide.

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Bird's-eye View. [Damage after magazine explosion. Cf. No. 79.]
Burial of the Victims. [Photograph by Topley.]
[Business of Plummer & Robinson, Vallejo. Photograph by James G. Smith.]
Capital grounds, Honolulu. NBM. [No.] 5
Construction of Dry Dock
Cruiser Baltimore in dry dock
Cruiser Charleston
Cruiser Charleston in dry dock
Cruiser Charleston in dry dock
Cruiser Charleston lying under derrick
Digging the graves. [Photograph by Topley.]
Drilling U.S. Marines, Mare Island Navy Yard, California. [Copyright 1898 by Strohmeyer …
Excavations for Stone Dry Dock. Mare Island Navy Yard
[Flour mill and other unidentified buildings and lands. Vallejo or Mare Island?]
[Flour mill and other unidentified buildings and lands. Vallejo or Mare Island?]
French cruiser Champlain
French cruiser Dubourdeau
French cruiser Duquesne
General view of Vallejo, Cal. 1880. [Photograph by James G. Smith.]
Georgia St., Vallejo. [Photograph by James G. Smith.]
Good Templar's Orphan's House [Vallejo, California]. Feb. 6, 1880. [Photograph by James …
The Greek
Green Valley Falls
Green Valley Falls
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