Chiefly portraits of fellow students and others taken while Isabel Porter Collins attended the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco, Calif. Many of the photos appear to have been made in rooms and studios there. Contains identified and unidentified subjects. Includes portraits of George Parmenter, Alice Best, Blanche Cummings, Darmapala, Robert Aitken, Theodore Kean, Lorenzo Latimer, Florence Lundborg, Louise Schawm, Laura Adams Armer, Xavier Martinez, Annabel Lee, Arthur Mathews, Lucia Mathews, Harry Raleigh, Maynard Dixon, Luisa de Brettville (Spreckles), and a few self-portraits. Also includes photos of Raymond Yelland's anatomy class. There are photos of students in class (one includes Douglas Tilden); unidentified female nudes; and portraits of children; unidentified except for one marked "Helen Swett." Includes two images of Joaquin Miller and family. Also includes one photo of an African American boy in a jester costume and two images of a Chinese girl. There are a few photos related to the Spanish-American War of 1898 that show a group from the Catholic Ladies Aid Society, a hospital scene, military exercises in Golden Gate Park, and a portrait of "Chaplain, Tenn. Regiment." Oversize photos include images of a 1949 centennial gardens tour of the Larkin House in Monterey, Calif. Two San Francisco Chinatown photos show a street scene, and a funeral procession in the street. A miscellaneous folder includes photos of a Mark Hopkins Institute of Art medallion, a San Francisco sidewalk scene, a fruit seller on the San Francisco waterfront, two murals, an interior view of a studio, and a Coalinga, Calif., oil well.
