Towns incl. Berkeley, Dunsmuir, Eureka, Millwood, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Shasta Springs; panoramic views of Mt. Tamalpais from Berkeley, the city of San Francisco incl. San Francisco Bay & Alcatraz Island from Buena Vista Hill, Green St. Hill, Greenwich Terrace, Lombard St. Hill, & Washington St. Hill, Monterey coast along 17-mile Cypress Drive, Catalina Island's Avalon Bay, & canyons & desert of Redlands from Mt. Greyback. Houses & buildings incl. structures in Monterey (old U.S. Customs House, old Whaling House, Cotton Hall, 1st U.S. Consuls House & former headquarters of General W.T. Sherman) & in Santa Barbara (Casa de la Guerra, Herter Place and Neighborhood House). Hotels & resorts incl. Del Monte Hotel, Forest Home, St. Francis Hotel, Hotel Potter. Banning's Place, & Paso Robles Hotel. Images of Redlands incl. shots of Smiley Heights, the popular name for Canon Crest Park built by Albert K. & Alfred H. Smiley, 1890s. Canon Crest was a horticultural marvel of over 1,200 species of plants, landscaped with long drives, paths, pools, & summerhouses. Photographed many of California's trees incl. giant sequoias, coastal redwoods, conifers (royal sugar pine and yellow pine), live oaks, Monterey cypresses, & Torrey pine. Included in the El Camino Real (Royal Highway) images are many shots of Spanish Missions (some in ruins): Carmel Mission, Dolores Mission, La Purisima Concepcion, San Antonio de Padua, San Buena Ventura, San Carlos, San Diego, San Fernando, San Gabriel, San Juan Capistrano, San Luis Obispo, San Miguel, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, and Santa Ynez. Also architectural features, gardens, Serra Monument, Serra Tablet, & ruins of room at Carmel Mission where Father Serra died. Ports. of individuals incl. Bradford Torrey (ornithologist, naturalist, & editor of Thoreau's writings), Miss Ruth Smiley, Daniel Smiley, Mrs. Daniel Smiley, Mrs. Carroll B. Smith, Mrs. Charles E. Ide, Miss Kate Sanborn, & shots of Gleason. Copies from other works incl. photos. by conservationist Walter L. Huber of scenes along John Muir Trail. Other images incl. shipwreck off coast of Monterey, world's 1st offshore oil wells in Summerland, and Shasta Springs, the most famous of resorts located in upper Sacramento River Canyon where Southern Pacific trains would stop so passengers could drink natural spring water. Nevada image of Heather Lake (publ. in The Western Wilderness of North America).
