california

The United States of America Panama-Pacific International Exposition S...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Baldwin.

Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Méjico, California &c. : segun lo organi...

Shows Mexico and the southern United States. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Prime meridian: Washington. Gift; Thomas W. Streeler; Dec. 28, 1937. Includes distance chart, distance list, and 2 profile... More

Map of Oregon and upper California from the surveys of John Charles Fr...

Scale 1:3,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows area of U.S. west of the Continental Divide. Includes notes and "Profile of the travelling route from the South Pass of the Rock... More

[El Dorado, California. View of scattered log cabins]

Photograph shows four log cabins scattered along the hillside; prospectors stand near or atop piles of large rocks; a flume can be seen on the far left.

Grand patent India-rubber air line railway to California: competition ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2748

San Francisco in July 1849 from present site of S.F. Stock Exchange

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Crocker (H.S.) & Co.

Flume ; Elevating water wheel / / Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, ...

Pictorial lettersheet with two images on one page shows (top) miners working next to flume; and (bottom) miners working next to river with water wheel leading to sluice; with attached blank leaf. Baird, Califo... More

The mining business in four pictures : Going in to it, making somethin...

Pictorial lettersheet with four images on one page and attached blank leaf. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 171. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.07

Chinese settlement in the suburbs of San Francisco, California / ... F...

Humble dwellings along bay. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 June 21, p. 21.

Assassination of James King, of William, corner of Montgomery and Wash...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 July 19, p. 88.

Map of wagon routes in Utah Territory /

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows routes of Captains Stansbury, Fremont, Gunnison, and Beckwith. In lower right margin: Facsimile reproduction by the Graphic Co., New York. Originally folded in m... More

Lincoln School, Historic View, Fifth Street, San Francisco, San Franci...

Public domain photograph of San Francisco streets, landmark historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

San Francisco Citizens to Abraham Lincoln, February 1861 (Petition of...

Swan, Honorable Thomas M. of Cal. - Public domain portrait print

Two men in suits and bow ties posing for a picture. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pacheco, Honorable Romualdo of Cal.. Glass Plate Negative, American Ci...

A black and white photo of a man with a beard. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sargent, Honorable Aaron Augustus of California

A black and white photo of a man with a beard. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hereford, Honorable Frank of W.VA, California forty-niner

A black and white photo of two men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yuba River, near Crystal Lake. Central Pacific Railroad

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steamer Julia at the Levee, Stockton, San Joaquin County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1027. LOT subdivision subject: Ships and River Steamers. This record contains unverified old data ... More

Hydraulic Mining--The Pipe and Tank

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 803. LOT subdivision subject: Hydraulic Mining. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

The Yosemite Fall, 2,634 feet high, near view, Yosemite Valley, Maripo...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1112. LOT subdivision subject: Yosemite Valley. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Central Pacific Railroad, Bloomer Cut, near Auburn, Placer County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1100. LOT subdivision subject: Central Pacific Railroad Equipment and Tracks on Donner Pass Route.... More

Harbor at Noyo, looking North, Mendocino County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1172. LOT subdivision subject: Mills (Lumber mills, etc). This record contains unverified old data... More

Jackson, Amador County--General view during American Civil War

The town. The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 865. LOT subdivision subject: Amador County. This record contains unverified data from o... More

Masonic and Odd Fellows Hall, San José, Santa Clara County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 63. LOT subdivision subject: San Jose. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Sonora, Tuolumne County - General view during American Civil War

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 956. LOT subdivision subject: Placer Mining. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Placer Mines--View on Knapp's Ranch, Columbia, Tuolumne Co.

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1022. LOT subdivision subject: Placer Mining. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Town of Casper, from the top of the hill, on the road looking North, M...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1178. LOT subdivision subject: Mendocino County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Pacific Mail Steamship Co.'s Works, Benicia, Solano County, Maretinez ...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 575. LOT subdivision subject: Solano County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Zephyr Cove, Eastern shore Lake Tahoe

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 668. LOT subdivision subject: Lake Tahoe. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Donner Peak--from Dutch Flat and Donner Lake Wagon Road, Western Summi...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 842. LOT subdivision subject: Donner Pass Route. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Monitor Camanche at the U.S. Navy Yard, Mare Island - View from Vallej...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 580. LOT subdivision subject: USS Monitor Camanche Ironside ship built in San Francisco. This reco... More

Scene on the Yuba River, near Cisco - Placer County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 772. LOT subdivision subject: Donner Pass Route. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Camp of the Mormons at Lake Tahoe

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 666. LOT subdivision subject: Mormon Emigrants en Route to the Hawaiian Islands. This record conta... More

Road leading to the shipping point from Casper Lumber Mills, Mendocino...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1176. LOT subdivision subject: Mendocino County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Zephyr Cove, Lake Tahoe, looking North

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 672. LOT subdivision subject: Lake Tahoe. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Episcopal, Catholic and Methodist Churches, Virginia City - Other buil...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 714. LOT subdivision subject: Virginia City Nevada. This record contains unverified old data from ... More

Jehovah Gap, American River, from the Central Pacific RR, Placer Count...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stockton, from the South (No. 4) looking east, San Joaquin County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1042. LOT subdivision subject: Stockton. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Interior of Buckeye Quartz Mill, Washoe City

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 702. LOT subdivision subject: Quartz Mill. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Pollard's Station, Donner Lake, Nevada County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 846. LOT subdivision subject: Donner Lake. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Bridge and Road leading from the Little River Lumber Mills, Mendocino ...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1194. LOT subdivision subject: Bridges in Northern California. This record contains unverified old... More

The Yosemite Valley, from the Coulterville Trail, Mariposa County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1102. LOT subdivision subject: Yosemite Valley. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Stockton from the South (No.1) looking North, San Joaquin County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1039. LOT subdivision subject: Stockton. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

International Hotel, C Street, Virginia City

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 711. LOT subdivision subject: Virginia City, Nevada. This record contains unverified data from old... More

Napa City, looking South from the Court House - Napa County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 761. LOT subdivision subject: Napa. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

French Lake, Nevada County, near Old Man Mountain, Central Pacific Rai...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1278. LOT subdivision subject: Donner Pass Lakes. This record contains unverified old data from ca... More

Nick of the Woods, near Yank's Station, A Curious Cedar Knot, Valley o...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 643. LOT subdivision subject: Lake Tahoe. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

McMurtry's Station, American River, California, 19th century sterescop...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 618. LOT subdivision subject: Placerville Tahoe Rte. This record contains unverified old data from... More

Arrival of the Central Pacific Passenger Train at Cisco, Placer County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1256. LOT subdivision subject: Wagon Trains and Stage Coaches. This record contains unverified old... More

Laying the Deck Plates of Monitor Camanche, San Francisco

Laborers and spectators. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which cre... More

San Francisco, from Corner of 2nd and Folsom Streets

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 378. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco General Views. This record contains unverified old dat... More

Starr King's Tomb, Geary Street, San Francisco, March 4, 1865

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Private Residences on Harrison Street, San Francisco

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 482. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Private Residences. This record contains unverified ol... More

Big River Lumber Mills, Mendocino County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1184. LOT subdivision subject: Mills (Lumber Mills, etc.). This record contains unverified data fr... More

Murphy's, Calaveras County - view from the West

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 870. LOT subdivision subject: Calaveras County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

What Cheer House, Sacramento St., San Francisco

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of San Francisco, mid-19th century albumen print, no copyright restrictions.

Statue of Lincoln, front of Lincoln School House, 5th Street, San Fran...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 500. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Public Buildings Schools, Hospitals, etc. This record ... More

Mouth of Big River, Mendocino County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1181. LOT subdivision subject: Mendocino County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Rattlesnake Mountain, Yuba River, Nevada County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 770. LOT subdivision subject: Donner Pass Route. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Auzerais House, San Jose, Santa Clara County

Public domain photograph of 19th century California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View on Crystal Lake-- Dutch Flat and Donner Lake Wagon Road

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 831. LOT subdivision subject: Crystal Lake. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

College at Santa Clara, California, 19th century sterescope card.

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 81. LOT subdivision subject: Santa Clara County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

California Co.'s stages leaving International Hotel, Virginia City, fo...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Warm Springs, Alameda County - From the road

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 32. LOT subdivision subject: Alameda County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Eagle Canyon, from Eckley's Island, Emerald Bay - Western Shore of Lak...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 659. LOT subdivision subject: Lake Tahoe. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Mount Diablo, from San Ramon Valley - Contra Costa County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 566. LOT subdivision subject: Contra Costa County. This record contains unverified old data from c... More

Washoe Indians--Valley of Lake Tahoe

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 602. LOT subdivision subject: Indians. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Placer Mining in the Boulder range, Columbia, Tuolumne County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 989. LOT subdivision subject: Placer Mining. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Residence of R.B. Woodward, San Francisco--interior of Conservatory

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 422. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Private Residences. This record contains unverified ol... More

Extinct volcano, Mono Lake, Cal. / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Photograph showing a volcano. Plate 103 from: Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel / United States Army Corps of Engineers; Clarence King, geologist in charge. [Washington, D.C.; 187-?].

Yosemite National Park, Calif., Yosemite national park

The Yosemite Falls, from Sentinel Dome. Photoprint by Carleton E. Watkins. Illus. in: The Yosemite Book. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; National Parks; Waterfalls.

Mt. Starr King and South Dome, from Buena Vista Peak

3523 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1185. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

Vernal Fall, (350 feet high) from above, after snow storm in July

3548 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1210. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

Calaveras big trees. House over the stump of the original big tree, di...

Photograph shows a round structure (left) and a ladder leaning against a giant tree stump (right). No. 880.

North & South Domes, (3725 & 6000 ft. above valley) from near Hutching...

4446 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1229. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

North Dome, Washington Column, and Mt. Watkins, from Glacier Cascade

4444 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1227. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

The Yo-Semite Valley, (4060 feet above sea) from Mariposa Trail

3525 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1187. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

Mt. Starr King, (5600 feet above valley) from Cap of Liberty

3535 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1197. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

Lamon's cabin - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

4462 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1245. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

Nevada Fall, (700 feet high) and Cap of Liberty, from the New Trail

3543 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1205. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

Father of the forest, Calaveras Grove, Cal. / Clark, Lake & Co., publi...

Stereograph shows fallen giant sequoia tree. On verso: A six mule team and covered wagons drive in two hundred feet - and drive out a knot hole. Charles M. and James H. Clark of 408 North Fourth Street, Rockfo... More

Round Tower, from summit of Nevada Fall trail

Public domain photograph of Yosemite National Park, mountains, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tutocanula, or El Capitan, 3600 feet, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County...

No. 1118. Part of series: Watkins' Pacific Coast. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg ... More

The cliff house, near San Francisco, Cal. Taber Photo., San Francisco

Photo shows a bird's-eye view of the Cliff House overlooking Seal Rocks in the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco, California. No. B. 59. Printed on verso: Taber Photographic Parlors, 8 Montgomery Street, San Franci... More

Yosemite fine cut : John T. Hancock, Dubuque, Iowa

Tobacco label with view of Yosemite Valley, Calif. LOT subdivision subject: Views, U.S. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Lithograph by Donaldson & Elmes Lith., Cin., O[hio]. Original n... More

The North Dome and Washington Tower

Public domain photograph of Yosemite National Park, mountains, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Three Graces, 3750 ft. high

Part of series: Glories of the Yosemite, California. No. 72. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixt... More

South from the trail near South Dome

Part of series: Glories of the Yosemite, California. No. 83. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixt... More

California Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Association

H3482 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Britton, Rey and Co.

El Capitan-3600 feet, mirror view, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa county, C...

Original negative number: 3011. Part of series: Watkins' New Series, [of Pacific Coast Views].

Register Rock, Yosemite. - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Original negative number: 3172. Part of series: Watkins' New Series, [of Pacific Coast Views].

Ducks, turkeys, chickens & stud horse, O'Hare Ranch

Photo of Kern County, California. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Farms...; Ranches...; Animals; Indians Reservations; Ca.; Shelf.

The legendary American actor John Wayne's four-room birthplace home on...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Marion Robert Morrison, who would one day adopt John Wayne as a stage name, weighed 13 pounds at birth on May 26, 1907. His father Cly... More

Blossom of the dogwood - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 08761. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Witches cauldron and Devil's pupit, California, 19th century sterescop...

Calif. Sonoma. Views of Geyser Springs. Stereo by Andrew Price. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf; Geysers; Calif. Sonoma; Springs; Hotels; Tourists.

Horses. Running. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows eighteen consecutive images of a man riding a horse named "Florence A.". Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed ... More

Athletes. Walking. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows two series of five consecutive images depicting two athletes walking. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by ... More

Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Leaving the ground

Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse leaping. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whi... More

Horses. Running. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows two series of five consecutive images of a man riding a horse named Mahomet, running. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive posit... More