San Francisco. From California Street
1855
Colored lithograph, from a daguerreotype
32.8 x 93.2 cm (12 15/16 x 36 11/16 ins)
Yale University Art Gallery
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, 1946.9.1929
LL/88678 [Further details available]
1 of 63
1. Wahla, chief of the Yuba tribe, - civilized and employed by Mr. S. Brannan, 2. A partly civilized Indian. 3. A wild Indian. - From daguerreotypes by Mr. W. Shew.
1855
Book illustration
Hathi Trust
LL/90844 [Further details available]
2 of 63
"Montgomery Street Northward from California Street, June 1854," from a daguerreotype by J. M. Ford
1855
Book illustration
Hathi Trust
LL/90845 [Further details available]
3 of 63
Exterior view of Ford's Daguerrean Gallery, 202 and 203 Clay Street, San Francisco
1854-1857 (ca)
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/9851 [Further details available]
4 of 63
Untitled (Portsmouth Square, San Francisco)
1853
Daguerreotype, stereo
Art Institute of Chicago
The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, purchased with funds provided by The Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust, Reference Number: 2019.685
LL/114497
5 of 63
The oldest photograph of San Francisco
1850
Daguerreotype
San Francisco Public Library
Photo Id: AAC-8879
LL/74199 [Further details available]
6 of 63
San Francisco panorama [fifth panel]
1851, Spring
Daguerreotype
California Historical Society
LL/79005
7 of 63
San Francisco in '49.
1849 (handwritten)
Copy print, possibly from a daguerreotype
California Historical Society
LL/74200
8 of 63
Portsmouth Square [San Francisco, California]
1850, 4 May (before fire)
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Internet - Original source ill-defined
LL/74203 [Further details available]
9 of 63
Portsmouth Square with port behind [San Francisco, California]
1850, 4 May (before fire)
Daguerreotype
Internet - Original source ill-defined
LL/74204 [Further details available]
10 of 63
Looking north on Montgomery St., San Francisco
1850 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
10.8 x 14.0 cm
George Eastman Museum
Purchase, 1979.3145.0001
LL/74580
11 of 63
Outdoor scene with miners
1853 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
AMC - Archive of Modern Conflict
Promised gift to the National Gallery of Canada
LL/63342
12 of 63
Miners cabin, California goldfields
1850
Daguerreotype
California State Library
LL/90481
13 of 63
Albumen print copy of a now lost daguerreotype of "James Marshall in front of Sutter's Mill"
n.d.
Digital scan from a negative
Private collection of Graham Pilecki
LL/92704 [Further details available]
14 of 63
Telegraph Hill taken from corner Stockton and Sacraments streets.
[San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco]
1855 (ca)
Salt paper print, albumenized
16.0 x 20.5 cm
George Eastman Museum
Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
LL/25563 [Further details available]
15 of 63
View from Windows Looking South
1877
Albumen silver print
14 x 22.9 cm (5 1/2 x 9 ins)
J. Paul Getty Museum
Object number: 88.XM.100.3
LL/66475 [Further details available]
16 of 63
816. Grass Valley, from Cemetery Hill, Nevada County.
[California]
1866
Stereocard
Private collection of Mark Kittinger
LL/80332
17 of 63
Sonora
1856
Stereocard
Haggin Museum
LL/90485
18 of 63
Conservatory, Woodward's Garden's, San Francisco, U. S. A.
1892
Stereoview
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s10590 (digital file from original)
LL/109451 [Further details available]
19 of 63
Great Sutro Bath House, San Francisco, California
1902
Stereoview
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s10733 (digital file from original)
LL/109344
20 of 63
McCartney's Hotel. First in the Park.
[Yellowstone National Park Views, On Line of Northern Pacific R. R.]
n.d.
Stereoview
Private collection of Neil Campau
LL/120987
21 of 63
691. Photographing in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
[Album Views of Nevada]
1865 (ca, taken) 1866 (published)
Carte de visite
Private collection of Mark Kittinger
LL/89935 [Further details available]
22 of 63
From Glacier Point 3,200 feet above Yosemite Valley Cal.
[Photographic Views of Yosemite and Mammoth Trees.]
n.d.
Stereocard, detail
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
Charles L. Camp Collection of Stereographs, Identifier: 16391
LL/38295 [Further details available]
23 of 63
Rocher le Capitaine, hauteur 1000 metres, Vallée de la Yosémite, Sierra Nevada, Californie
1860-1870
Albumen print, mammoth
51 x 39.4 cm
Piasa
Photographies, 28 October 2011, Lot 13
LL/44421 [Further details available]
24 of 63
Sugar Loaf Island, Farallons
1868-1869
Albumen print
41.2 x 54.4 cm (16 1/4 x 21 7/16 ins) (overall)
National Gallery of Art
Patrons' Permanent Fund, Accession No. 1995.36.127
LL/92691
25 of 63
Sugar Loaf Islands, Farallons
1868-1869
Albumen silver print, from glass negative
40 x 52.4 (image) 55.3 x 66.3 (mount)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.107
LL/105778 [Further details available]
26 of 63
Panorama of San Francisco from California St. Hill
1877
Albumen prints (x11)
7 3/8 x 84 ins (18.7 x 213.4 cm.)
Swann Galleries - New York
17 October 2019, Classic & Contemporary Photographs, Sale: 2520, Lot: 6
LL/94324
27 of 63
[Key to Muybridge's San Francisco Panorama]
1877
Albumen silver print
19.5 × 26.8 cm (7 11/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
J. Paul Getty Museum
Object Number: 88.XM.99.2
LL/118311 [Further details available]
28 of 63
Surf near Cypress Pt. - Monterey, California
1880s
Albumen print
6 x 8 in.
Private collection of Richard W. Gadd
LL/116979
29 of 63
Instantaneous Ocean View (California)
n.d.
Albumen print
6 x 8 in.
Private collection of Richard W. Gadd
LL/116981
30 of 63
'Timbered Bottom Lands, on the North Waddell, Big Basin,' California, Unitied States [Big Basin Redwoods Forest]
1900 (ca)
Matte collodion printing-out paper
19.2 x 24 cm
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-F16137
LL/79343
31 of 63
Trunk of a Giant Sequoia, California, United States
1900 (ca)
Gelatin printing out paper
22.8 x 19 cm
Rijksmuseum
RP-F-F16138
LL/79344
32 of 63
Overview of a Farm in Tulare County, California
1890 (ca)
Photograph
Private collection of Graham Pilecki
LL/102951
33 of 63
#8713 Curious result of the earthquake - settling of the houses on Howard St. - San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A.
1906
Stereoview, detail
Jefferson Stereoptics
Courtesy of John Saddy (Auction, Tues. August 29th & Thurs. August 31st, 2006, # 06-3, Lot 511)
LL/13862
34 of 63
[San Francisco]
1873-1874
Albumen print
13 x 20 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
19th – 21st Century Photography, 7 December 2022, Lot: 4042
LL/123947
35 of 63
[San Francisco]
1873-1874
Albumen print
13 x 20 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
19th – 21st Century Photography, 7 December 2022, Lot: 4042
LL/123948
36 of 63
Sleeping Out in "the Yard, " April 19, 1906
1906, 19 April
Photograph
Santa Clara University, Archives & Special Collections
SCU General Photograph Collection - Earthquakes, Source ID: EVN.EQ.SCC.23859
LL/112754 [Further details available]
37 of 63
Garden City Foto Co., 606 E. Fifth Street, Los Angeles
1903 (ca)
Photograph
8 5/8 x 7 1.4 ins
California State Library
Record Number: 001384405
LL/84032 [Further details available]
38 of 63
Garden City Photo Co. building [Los Angeles, CA]
1896 (ca)
Photograph
4 x 5 1/2 ins
California State Library
California Hist. Room (CALIF), Record Nuumber: 001384504
LL/84031 [Further details available]
39 of 63
Jewish Synagogue, Sutter Street, from Union Square, San Francisco
1865
Carte de visite
California Historical Society
Lawrence and Houseworth photograph collection, Identifier: PC-RM-Lawrence-Houseworth_0232
LL/105755
40 of 63
Chinese Actor, S. F.
[Watkin's New Boudoir Series Yo Semite and Pacific Coast]
n.d.
Albumen print
Private collection of Glenn Cornell Samson
LL/118583
41 of 63
The Mission Art Company photographers pose next to their camera truck, Los Angeles, Californi
1921
Photograph
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Posted to Facebook, Early Photography and Film, by Cornelio Nouel?, 13 November 2019
LL/94564 [Further details available]
42 of 63
View of phreatic explosion, Mt. Lassen, CA
1914, 14 June
Photograph
National Parks Service
LL/122124
43 of 63
Bindle-stiff, Napa Valley, CA.
1938 (taken) 1970 (ca, print)
Silver print
7 3/4 x 7 in. (19.7 x 17.8 cm.) (image)
Swann Galleries - New York
21 October 2021, Sale 2583, Lot: 101
LL/115094
44 of 63
Dunes et Nuages (Dunes and Clouds)
1938
Gelatin silver print
Private collection of Jan Weijers (Servatius)
LL/29088
45 of 63
"The Eternal Struggle between Sea & Land. The broad Pacific. Calif.[ornia] coast"
1937
Gum print
31.8 × 26.1 cm (12 1/2 x 10 1/4 ins)
Villa Grisebach Auktionen GmbH - Berlin
Auction 311, 27 November 2019, Lot: 2138R
LL/94736
46 of 63
Palm Springs
1951 (taken, later print)
Gelatin silver print
44.7 x 44 cm (image)
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction 114, 4 December 2019, Lot: 4419
LL/94869
47 of 63
San Francisco
1951 (taken, later print)
Gelatin silver print
44.7 x 44 cm (image)
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction 114, 4 December 2019, Lot: 4420
LL/94870
48 of 63
Cable Car, San Francisco
1947 (taken) 1970s (print)
Silver print
15 1/2 x 17 1/8 ins (39.4 x 43.5 cm)
Swann Galleries - New York
Auction, 12 Dec 2013, Sale no: 2335, Lot: 119
LL/52281
49 of 63
Hollywood, California
1956
Gelatin silver print
9 1/2 x 6 3/8 ins (24.13 x 16.19 cm) (overall)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.1346
LL/81391
50 of 63
San Francisco
1946-1947
Gelatin silver print
34.1 × 26.4 cm (13 3/8 x 10 3/8 ins)
Villa Grisebach Auktionen GmbH - Berlin
Auction 311, 27 November 2019, Lot: 2111R
LL/94722
51 of 63
Backyard, Diamond Bar, California
1980
Gelatin silver print
11 3/16 x 11 5/16 ins (28.42 x 28.73 cm) (image)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Object number: 2008.41.11
LL/81516
52 of 63
Every Building on Sunset Strip
1966
Fanfold with offset illustrations on white paper
Van Ham Fine Art Auctions
Auction, Photography, 9 December 2011, Sale: 307, Lot: 1645
LL/44870 [Further details available]
53 of 63
Case Study, House # 22 (Playboy), designed by Pierre Koenig, Los Angeles, California.
1960 (taken) 2009 (print)
Chromogenic color print
50.1 x 40 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Courtesy of Bassenge, 19th-21st Century Photography, 6 June 2012, Lot: 4410
LL/48032
54 of 63
Chuey House, (Richard Neutra)
1958 (taken, later print)
Gelatin silver print
30.6 x 40.7 cm (12 x 16 ins)
Bloomsbury Auctions - London
Fine Photographs and Photobooks, 18 May 2017, Lot: 34
LL/76330
55 of 63
East Wall, McGaw Laboratories, 1821 Langley, Costa Mesa
1974 (before)
Gelatin silver print
15.2 x 22.9 cm (image) 20.2 x 25.4 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Morton H. Rapp, Toronto, 1982, No. 19588, © Lewis Baltz
LL/63705
56 of 63
Los Angeles
1959 (taken) 2000s (print)
Gelatin silver print
13 3/4 x 20 3/4 ins (34.9 x 52.7 cm) (image)
Swann Galleries - New York
19 October 2017 auction, Art of Storytelling, Lot: 240
LL/77866
57 of 63
LD SV97022802 Long Beach Harbor
1997
Kodak Ultra Endura print
46 x 23 in
Gallery 339 - Fine Art Photography
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery 339
LL/11324 [Further details available]
58 of 63
Surfers.
2003
Chromogenic print
19 1/4 x 15 1/4 in. (48.9 x 38.7 cm.) (image)
Swann Galleries - New York
21 October 2021, Sale 2583, Lot: 316
LL/115227
59 of 63
Summer Games Los Angeles 1984
1984
Colour photograph
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
LL/112306
60 of 63
Re-Opened! R.H. Vance, Corner of Montgomery and Sacramento Sts., San Francisco, has again re-opened his First Premium Gallery
1859 (ca)
Advert
Private collection of Robert H. Sayers
LL/90710 [Further details available]
61 of 63
Backmark for "Morse's Palace of Art, 417 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal."
n.d.
Carte de visite, back
Private collection of William Jones
LL/90207
62 of 63
Backmark for ""Bradley & Rulofson" of San Francisco.
n.d.
Cabinet card, back
Antiq-Photo
Courtesy of Anthony Davis - Antiq-photo / Rainbow creations (www.19cPhoto.com)
LL/9448 [Further details available]
63 of 63
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