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United States. District Court (California : Northern District). U.S. District Court of Northern California records, 1842-1858.

Title: U.S. District Court of Northern California records, 1842-1858.

Volume (90 items) containing photographs of documents, letters, maps, etc. used as exhibits in the case of U.S. vs. José Y. Limantour, a case relating to California land fraud claims. Edwin M. Stanton acted as counsel for the government. The volume is inscribed by Roger B. Taney. Robert H. Vance commissioned by Stanton to photograph the documents to be introduced as evidence.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.1 oversize container.0.25 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70982940 View

Turner, John H. Charles L. Weed historic photographs of Middle Fork American River mining activities.

Title: Charles L. Weed historic photographs of Middle Fork American River mining activities. 1983.

Photographic views taken in 1858 compared to the same views taken 1977-1978, all within the impoundment area for the proposed Auburn Reservoir.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (74 p. text, 34 photoprints, 2 maps)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86130239 View

Mackay, Zelda, 1893-1985. Zelda Mackay collection of daguerreian era photography in California [graphic].

Title: Zelda Mackay collection of daguerreian era photography in California [graphic]. ca. 1845-1865.

Original daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes by various photographers, including Sheldon Nichols, Peter Britt, R.H. Vance, Silas Selleck, J.M. Ford, [William or Samuel?] Summerhays, [Charles F.] Hamilton, George H. Johnson, Shaw and Johnson, and William Shew. Chiefly individual and group portraits of California pioneers and their relatives, gold rush era mining towns, gold miners, and views of San Francisco and other California towns.

ArchivalResource: 109 photographs (chiefly daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes) : some hand colored ; cases 27 x 22 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81459981 View

Weed, Charles L. Photographs of the Middle Fork of the American River and Forest Hill, the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Trees, Coloma and Placerville [graphic].

Title: Photographs of the Middle Fork of the American River and Forest Hill, the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Trees, Coloma and Placerville [graphic]. Oct. 1858-July 1859.

This collection, formerly housed in the Arthur S. Rosenblatt scrapbook, consists of 26 views of mining districts in California's gold country, 17 views of Yosemite, and 5 views of trees in sequoia groves or other forests. To these have been added 3 later copy photographs; 1 of a mining scene and 2 of Yosemite. The mining district views are chiefly from the Middle Fork of the American River, with several of Forest Hill in Placer County. These were made by Weed in October 1858 while employed by Robert H. Vance, and they were collectively promoted as Vance's "American River panorama" (cf. Palmquist, Pioneer photographers of the far west, 2000.) The views taken near Coloma and Placerville may be from different photographic trips. The Yosemite views are considered the first photographs taken in Yosemite Valley and environs. They were taken between June 18 and June 22, 1859, on an excursion described by J.M. Hutchings in his Hutchings California magazine (Oct.-Dec. 1859). At the time of creation, they were known as the "Yosemite Panorama".

ArchivalResource: 3 mounted l. on 2 l. (typescript letters), 1 mounted color drawing, 3 copy photographs, and 48 photographic prints : salted paper prints ; mounts 41 x 51 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82307976 View

Cased photographs selected from the collections of the California History Section of the California State Library

Title: Cased photographs selected from the collections of the California History Section of the California State Library

78 cased photographs selected from the collections of the California State Library. Includes daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes (also called ferrotypes) dating from the late 1840s to the mid-1860s. Subject matter is chiefly portraits of California pioneers and mining scenes, mining districts, and towns of the California gold rush.

ArchivalResource: 78 photographs (in 74 cases)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf100000s7 View

Peter Palmquist cased photographs collection., circa 1844-1899

Title: Peter Palmquist cased photographs collection. circa 1844-1899

This collection consists of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and collodion processes primarily mounted in contemporary decorative cases, collected by Peter Palmquist to document photographers, photographic processes and presentation techniques in the United States, especially in California, and in Great Britain, ca. 1844-1899.

ArchivalResource: Total: 410 Items

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.palmcase View