Swanlund-Baker photograph collection, ca 1904-1925 / creator, Ray Jerome Baker. 2001.

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Swanlund-Baker photograph collection, ca 1904-1925 / creator, Ray Jerome Baker. 2001.

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The Swanlund-Baker Collection depicts a wide variety of everyday northwest California scenes and activities from the early twentieth century. Lumber industry, tanbark industry, flower nurseries, city and village street scenes, schools, portraits, parks, ships, shipbuilding, shipwrecks and rivers are the featured subjects of this collection. The primary photographer represented is Ray Jerome Baker who lived in Humboldt County from 1904-1910.

1001 items : ill. 20 v. in 21 binders.

Humboldt State University, HSU

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Humboldt State University, HSU

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