Photographs from the Charles Lewis Camp papers [graphic]. ca. 1868-ca. 1968.

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Photographs from the Charles Lewis Camp papers [graphic]. ca. 1868-ca. 1968.

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Many photographs of the Alaska Gold Rush are included in this collection, most from Juneau and Dyea. These include Alaskan harbor scenes; climbers on the Chilkoot summit; a large tent camp in snow with pack animals and climbers visible (at Chilkoot pass); and town views of early settlement at Dyea showing boats, a hotel, cabins, tents, and other housing, and sled dog teams. Other parts of the collection include views of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley, the Carmel mission, Utah, and Pike's Peak, Colorado. Other Southern California views include Yuma and Mohave Native American portraits. Photographs of the John Marsh Rancho form part of the Mt. Diablo pictorial project and include 1938 views of buildings, scenery, adobe ruins, and Marsh's residence (all well captioned). Other photographs include portraits of Pasadena high school friends, snapshopts of Charles Camp, views of the Camps' summer home on the Yuba River, and photographs for the Doble journal (photos of illustrations having to do with mining, etc.) Some copy prints of early daguerreotypes of mining and early settlement in Murphy's, Calif. are also included. Collection includes some original magazine pages from Peterson's Magazine and the Ladies Repository from 1868 and 1874.

151 items (photographic prints, prints, postcards, and negatives) : b&w ; various sizes.

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Kruser, Habel

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Young, Wm. W.

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Bonine, E. A.,

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Hirschfeld & Co.

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Camp, Charles Lewis, 1893-1975

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Charles Camp was born in Jamestown, N.D. on Mar. 12, 1893. He attended the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University and joined the U.C. Berkeley faculty as a zoologist in 1922. He transferred to the Paleontology Department in 1930, and he directed the museum of Paleontology from 1930 until 1949. Camp was also a dedicated historian of the American West. Camp died on Aug. 14, 1975. From the description of Charles Lewis Camp papers, circa 1908-1975 (bulk 1920-1975). (U...