- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2670
- Collection Title:
- Peter Palmquist collection of Humboldt County, California, male photographers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 64 | Folder 7
- Image Count:
- 46
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- 7 of 9 labeled folders in box 64.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Humboldt County (Calif.)
- Subject (Name):
- Freeman Art Co.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cranes and derricks and Photography of railroads
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Freeman Art Co.
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1859-1860]
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 231
- Image Count:
- 113
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- A photograph album containing 46 varnished salted paper prints of views of San Francisco dated 1852-1860, 14 of them signed by G.R. Fardon, which includes all but 6 of the photographs in Fardon's San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco. Includes a photograph of Fort Gunnybags, June 1856. Two maps of San Francisco are tipped in.
- Alternative Title:
- San Francisco album.
- Description:
- First photograph carries stamp: "Amic Gazan [&] Mazzucchelli Sun Pictures.", G.R. Fardon traveled from New York to San Francisco in 1849. There he experimented with daguerreotypes, and developed a process by which prints on paper could be made from collodion glass plate negatives. In 1856 Herre & Bauer printed his San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco., Manuscript captions., Presentation inscription by James de Fremery to his wife, dated November 2 1859, with later inscription noting gift to son James L. de Fremery., Purchased from William Reese Company on the Frederick W. Beinecke Fund, 1998., and Title from front cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Amic Gazan & Mazzucchelli Sun Pictures, De Fremery, James, 1826-1899--Presentation inscription to his wife, Fardon, G. R., Lindenkohl, A, and San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Views of San Francisco.