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Alice Iola Hare Photograph Collection

Owning Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

About this Collection

The Hare collection contains 575 silver gelatin prints, taken by Mrs. Hare circa 1900-1910. Most of the photographs were taken in and around the Santa Clara Valley region of Northern California, especially in the vicinities of Santa Clara and San Jose. Other areas featured in the collection are Saratoga, Los Gatos, the Santa Cruz Mountains, Big Basin Park, San Francisco, Monterey, Palo Alto, Sonoma County, Lake County, and Pebble Beach. The subject matter of Mrs. Hare's work is diverse, including gardens, gardening and botany; architecture; streets and roadways; parks, landscapes, and other scenes of nature; agriculture and industry; travel and recreation; and the local Chinese, Spanish and native Californian cultures of the time.... View collection guide.

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303 items found in this collection

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[Children in parade]
Chinese boys, Chinatown, San Francisco [No. illegible]
Chinese carrying fish, Chinatown, Monterey, California. No. 770
Chinese fisherman camp, Monterey
[Chinese fishing village, Monterey]
Chinese fishing village, Monterey Bay, California. No. 839
[Chinese garment accessories]
[Chinese incense, statuette, and unidentified object]
[Chinese jewelry item]
[Chinese newspaper, dishware, basket and other unidentified items]
Chinese putting on bait for fishing, Chinese village, near Monterey. No. 840
Clear Lake (?), California
[Coastal hills, beach, surf]
Colton Hall, Monterey, California, where first congress convened September, 1849. No. 38
A combined harvester in a California grain field. No. 607
A corner on the seed ranch, Santa Clara, California No. 757
[Cotton field]
[Cotton pickers]
[Cotton pickers]
[Cove with pier and boats, Avalon harbor, Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)]
Coyote Creek near San Jose
A cozy cottage on edge of the town of Santa Clara
Creek scene Congress Springs, near Saratoga, California
Creek scene in winter, near Saratoga, California (hand colored)
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