Album of Houseworth photographs of California presented by Edward Vischer to John Prince-Smith. Photographs depict San Francisco, Sacramento, and Stockton, Yosemite, dry dock at Hunter’s Point, the Monitor Comanche, and the sinking of the Aquila carrying the Comanche, the Mendocino lumber region, geysers in Sonoma County, the Calaveras mammoth tree groves, scenes in the Sierra Nevada, including Lake Tahoe, and views of the Central Pacific Railroad.
Description:
Blanks not scanned.
Publisher:
[Houseworth & Co.]
Subject (Geographic):
Calaveras County (Calif.) --Pictorial works, Sacramento (Calif.) --Pictorial works, San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --Pictorial works, Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) --Pictorial works, Stockton (Calif.) --Pictorial works, Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) --Pictorial works, and Yosemite National Park (Calif.) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Aquila (Ship) --Pictorial works, Central Pacific Railroad Company --Pictorial works, Comanche (Ironclad) --Pictorial works, Hunters Point Naval Shipyard --Pictorial works, and Vischer, Edward
Subject (Topic):
Geysers --California --Sonoma County --Pictorial works, Giant sequoia --Pictorial works, and Lumber trade --California --Pictorial works
Studio portraits of entertainers created by Thomas Houseworth & Co. that comprise a portion of the Houseworth's Celebrities, ca. 1870-1880. Images include female burlesque actresses and dancers Viola Clifton, Lizzie McCall, Lulu Mortimer, and Mabel Santley, while other portraits depict actress Noko McCabe; actress and singer Emelie Melville; and acrobat and circus entrepreneur Edward W. Orrin.
Description:
Letterpress captions on mounts. and Portraits of McCabe, Melville, Orrin, were a gift of Dr. Leonard R. Kauffman, 2004. Portraits of Clifton, McCall, Mortimer, and Santley: source unknown.
Subject (Name):
Clifton, Viola, Houseworth, Thomas,--1829-1915, McCall, Lizzie, Melville, Emelie, Mortimer, Lulu, Orrin, Edward W, Santley, Mabel, and Thomas Houseworth & Co
Subject (Topic):
Acrobats--Portraits, Actresses--Portraits, Burlesque (Theater)--Portraits, Dancers--Portraits, Entertainers--Portraits, and Singers--Portraits
Houseworth, Thomas, 1829-1915. Thomas Houseworth & Co
Published / Created:
ca. 1874
Call Number:
WA Photos Folio 49
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Studio portrait photograph from a mammoth plate negative identified as Susan Te-u-pun McKay, an Umatilla Indian and wife of Donald McKay, a government scout involved in the Modoc Indian War, created by the studio of Thomas Houseworth & Co., ca. 1874.
Alternative Title:
Housewoth's celebrities
Description:
Printed caption on the verso: "The Nevada Fall, 700 feet high, Yo-Semite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal., No. 20" and "No. 9 Montgomery St., San Francisco".
