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California State Library
 
Library and Courts II Building, 900 N Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
USA

www.library.ca.gov

 
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I.W. Taber, 1880, View of A. S. Spence & Co's Great Novelty Emporium, 537 Market Street, San Francisco, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84421
I.W. Taber, 1880, San Francisco Laundry, steam laundry, Eddy St., near Fillmore, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84404
I.W. Taber, 1880, W. T. Garratt's Machine Works, Brass and Bell Foundry, corner Fremont and Natoma Sts., San Francisco, established 1850, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84427
Unidentified photographer, 1850-1855, Two miners, Ambrotype, 1/4 plate, California State Library, LL/38272
Unidentified photographer, 1886, Giant of the Forest". Image of redwood tree viewed shot from ground looking up, [Two weeks in Mendocino through the redwood country, August 1886 : photograph album], Albumen print, California State Library, LL/126110
I.W. Taber, 1880, The Daily Morning Call, established 1856, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84396
James M. Ford, 1855, Matilda Heron, Book illustration, steel engraving, California State Library, LL/90872
Carleton E. Watkins, n.d., Street in Tombstone, Arizona. #4914., [Watkin's New Series], Stereoview, California State Library, LL/118632
I.W. Taber, 1880, Keane Bros. importers of foreign and domestic dry goods, 107, 109, 111, 113, 115 Kearny Street, San Francisco, Cal., [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84417
I.W. Taber, 1889, 1 January, The Solar Eclipse January 1st, 1889, Cloverdale, Cal., 4445, Albumen print, California State Library, LL/84392
I.W. Taber, 1880, C. Curtin, importer and dealer in foreign anmd domestic dry goods, Grand Dry Goods Store, 911 & 913 Market St., San Francisco, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84406
I.W. Taber, 1880, Gilbert & Moore, manufacturers, importers, wholesale and retail dealers in furniture, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84415
Enno Nesemann, 1883-1900, The Egg Pickers, Farralone Island, Pacific Ocean, # 250, Stereoview, California State Library, LL/102023
Carleton E. Watkins, 1880, View in Tombstone, Arizona. #4918, [Watkin's New Series], Stereoview, California State Library, LL/118637
Carleton E. Watkins, 1880, Contention Works, Tombstone, Arizona. # 4922., [Watkin's New Series], Stereoview, California State Library, LL/118630
I.W. Taber, 1880, The Philadelphia Brewery, the largest on the Pacific Coast, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84425
Carleton E. Watkins, n.d., View in Tombstone, Arizona. #4919., [Watkin's New Series], Stereoview, California State Library, LL/118633
I.W. Taber, 1880, Palace Dye Works, John F. Snow & Co. under Palace Hotel, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84423
I.W. Taber, 1880, View of A. S. Spence & Co's Great Novelty Emporium, 537 Market Street, San Francisco, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84422
I.W. Taber, 1880, D. Hicks & Co., book-binders and blank book manufacturers, New Building, cor. Montgomery and Commercial Sts., San Francisco, D. Hicks, N. A. Judd, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84402
I.W. Taber, 1880, "City of Peking", [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84420
I.W. Taber, 1880, Gilbert & Moore, manufacturers, importers, wholesale and retail dealers in furniture, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84416
I.W. Taber, 1880, Front cover of I.W. Taber, 1880, The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons., (San Francisco : I.W. Taber), Book cover, California State Library, LL/84395
Carleton E. Watkins, 1880, View in Tombstone, Arizona. #4917, [Watkin's New Series], Stereoview, California State Library, LL/118636
I.W. Taber, 1888 (?), The"Casco's" Voyagers, Captain Coleord, commander, to the Sandwich Islands, and the South Pacific Ocean, 1880, Carte de visite, California State Library, LL/84391
Unidentified photographer, 1852 (ca), [Portrait of 23 miners at sluice], Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, California State Library, LL/38270
I.W. Taber, 1880, Bowley Bros., successors to Crego & Bowley, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84407
Charles Wallace Jacob Johnson, n.d., Photograph Gallery Tent, Photographic print, California State Library, LL/38278
William Rulofson, 1854-1855, William Rulofson and friends, Ambrotype, 1/2 plate, California State Library, LL/38277
I.W. Taber, 1880, Bowley Bros., successors to Crego & Bowley, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84408
Unidentified photographer, 1886, Man laying on ground operating camera, [Two weeks in Mendocino through the redwood country, August 1886 : photograph album], Albumen print, California State Library, LL/126113
I.W. Taber, 1880, I.S. Winkle & Co., Iron, Steel and Heavy Hardware [Market st., San Francisco], [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84397
Unidentified photographer, n.d., [top] Mine on Bogus Creek, Siskiyou County. [bottom] Bogus Creek and Bogus Mountain., Daguerreotype, California State Library, LL/38268
I.W. Taber, 1880, Palace Dye Works, John F. Snow & Co. under Palace Hotel, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84424
Unidentified photographer, 1850, Miners cabin, California goldfields, Daguerreotype, California State Library, LL/90481
I.W. Taber, 1880, Heald's Business College, Post Street [San Francisco], [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84399
I.W. Taber, 1880, W. T. Garratt's Machine Works, Brass and Bell Foundry, corner Fremont and Natoma Sts., San Francisco, established 1850, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84428
I.W. Taber, 1880, M. Meussdorffer, fashionable hatter, view of M. Meussdorffer's celebrated hat store, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84412
I.W. Taber, 1880, C. Curtin, importer and dealer in foreign anmd domestic dry goods, Grand Dry Goods Store, 911 & 913 Market St., San Francisco, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84405
Joseph B. Starkweather, 1852 (ca), African American Miner Working a Long Tom, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, California State Library, LL/38267
I.W. Taber, 1880, M. Meussdorffer, fashionable hatter, view of M. Meussdorffer's celebrated hat store, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84411
I.W. Taber, 1880, Bruce's Printing House, 618 Sacramento St., above Mongomery, S. F., [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84414
O.B. Silver, 1861 (ca), O.B. Silver's Ambrotype Gallery, Ambrotype, 1/2 plate, California State Library, LL/38269
Carleton E. Watkins, 1863, Hydraulic mining, at Gold Run, Placer County, 61., [Watkins's Pacific Railroad], Stereoview, California State Library, LL/118627
I.W. Taber, 1880, San Francisco Laundry, steam laundry, Eddy St., near Fillmore, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84403
Garden City Photo Co., 1903 (ca), Garden City Foto Co., 606 E. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, Photograph, California State Library, LL/84032
Downing, Rea & Rauscher, 1881 (ca), [Operating Room of 3rd Street Gallery], Stereocard, California State Library, LL/38273
I.W. Taber, 1880, Keane Bros. importers of foreign and domestic dry goods, 107, 109, 111, 113, 115 Kearny Street, San Francisco, Cal., [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84418
I.W. Taber, 1880, Taber Photographic Parlors and Art Studio, over Hibernia Bank. No. 8 Montgomery Street, corner Market St., opposite Grand and Palace Hotels, San Francisco. Ascend in the elevator, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84393
I.W. Taber, 1880, D. Hicks & Co., book-binders and blank book manufacturers, New Building, cor. Montgomery and Commercial Sts., San Francisco, D. Hicks, N. A. Judd, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84401
Carleton E. Watkins, [187-], Glacier on Mt. Shasta, Siskiyou Co., Cal., 1554., [Watkins' Pacific Coast], Stereoview, California State Library, LL/98475
I.W. Taber, 1880, Palace Hotel, A. D. Sharon, Prop'r, the largest and best appointed hotel in the world, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84430
Underwood & Underwood, 1898 (ca), An Easter Morning in the Desert (Ostrich Chicks), Stereoview, California State Library, LL/102022
I.W. Taber, 1880, I.S. Winkle & Co., Iron, Steel and Heavy Hardware [Market st., San Francisco], [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84398
Unidentified photographer, 1886, Men standing beside fence, one operating camera; shows machinery at top of chute and stacked logs; man laying on ground operating camera; shows log jammed river; shows man swimming., [Two weeks in Mendocino through the redwood country, August 1886 : photograph album], Albumen prints (x5), on single album page, California State Library, LL/126112
Carleton E. Watkins, [187-], Glacier on Mt. Shasta, Siskiyou Co., Cal., 1552., [Watkins' Pacific Coast], Stereoview, California State Library, LL/98474
George H. Johnson, 1852 (ca), Sacramento's First Historian: Dr. John F. Morse, Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, California State Library, LL/38265
Carleton E. Watkins, 1880, California Store, Tombstone, Arizon. #4916, [Watkin's New Series], Stereoview, California State Library, LL/118631
Garden City Photo Co., 1896 (ca), Garden City Photo Co. building [Los Angeles, CA], Photograph, California State Library, LL/84031
I.W. Taber, 1880, Bruce's Printing House, 618 Sacramento St., above Mongomery, S. F., [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84413
Carleton E. Watkins, 1880, Contention Works, Tombstone, Arizona. # 4921., [Watkin's New Series], Stereoview, California State Library, LL/118629
George H. Johnson, 1852, John Gulick at his brother Richard's grave in Benicia, California, Daguerreotype, California State Library, LL/128247
Carleton E. Watkins, 1880, Cosmopolitan Hotel, C. Bilicke, Pro., Tombstone, Ariz. #4915, [Watkin's New Series], Stereoview, California State Library, LL/118635
Unidentified photographer, 1850, Matilda Heron as Medea, Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate, California State Library, LL/90871
I.W. Taber, 1880, Daily Alta California, established 1849, publication office: 529 California Street, San Francisco, Fred'k MacCrellish & Co., [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84409
Thomas Houseworth, n.d., Houseworth's celebrities., Cabinet card, composite, California State Library, LL/103021
Carleton E. Watkins, 1874, [Leland Stanford], Cabinet card, California State Library, LL/38276
I.W. Taber, 1880, "City of Peking", [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84419
I.W. Taber, 1880, Taber Photographic Parlors and Art Studio, over Hibernia Bank. No. 8 Montgomery Street, corner Market St., opposite Grand and Palace Hotels, San Francisco. Ascend in the elevator, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84394
Carleton E. Watkins, 1880-1888, Tombstone, Arizona. # 4913., [Watkin's New Series], Stereoview, California State Library, LL/118628
Carleton E. Watkins, 1880-1888 (published), Tough Nut Hoisting Works, Tombstone, Arizona. # 4920, [Watkin's New Series], Stereoview, California State Library, LL/118634
I.W. Taber, 1880, The Philadelphia Brewery, the largest on the Pacific Coast, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84426
Carleton E. Watkins, 1877 (ca), The Golden Gate, from Telegraph Hill, S.F., Cabinet card, California State Library, LL/38275
Carleton E. Watkins, 1877 (ca), Cliff House and Seal Rocks, S. F., Cabinet card, California State Library, LL/38274
I.W. Taber, 1880, Heald's Business College, Post Street [San Francisco], [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84400
Unidentified artist, n.d., North Fork, American River, California, Illustration, California State Library, LL/90712
I.W. Taber, 1880, Palace Hotel, A. D. Sharon, Prop'r, the largest and best appointed hotel in the world, [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84429
I.W. Taber, 1880, Daily Alta California, established 1849, publication office: 529 California Street, San Francisco, Fred'k MacCrellish & Co., [The Taber photographic album : principal business houses, residences and persons], Albumen print, tipped-in, California State Library, LL/84410
Unidentified photographer, 1946, Ed Weston & daughter-in-law at Carmel Highland, Black and white photograph, California State Library, LL/92083
   

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