Lawrence & Houseworth photographs of Northern California and Western Nevada from the series Gems of California scenery
- Title: Lawrence & Houseworth photographs of Northern California and Western Nevada from the series Gems of California scenery
- Other Title: Lawrence & Houseworth collection
- Creator(s): Lawrence & Houseworth, publisher
- Related Names:
Lawrence & Houseworth. Gems of California scenery. - Date Created/Published: 1862-1867.
- Medium: ca. 900 photographic prints : half-stereograph, albumen ; 8.5 x 9.5 cm.
- Summary: Half-stereograph prints show sites in Northern California with emphasis on San Francisco and areas of the Sierra Nevada. Also views of Carson City and Virginia City in Western Nevada. Subjects include placer and hydraulic mining operations and settlements; commercial buildings; the Central Pacific Railroad; churches; dwellings; mills; missions; harbors and wharfs; schools; some ships. Also cityscapes and street scenes; views of Yosemite Valley and Lake Tahoe, Calif., and the redwoods of Calaveras County, Calif.
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on publication.
- Access Advisory: Surrogates are provided in preference to the originals, as per Divisional preservation policy.
- Call Number: LOT 3544 (F) [P&P]
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
- Notes:
- Arrangement: Arranged sequentially by item numbers assigned by the publisher.
- Black-and-white copy prints are available for reference purposes (call number: LOT 3544). These are organized by location or subject into 71 categories as listed in: "Subdivisions for Lawrence & Houseworth Collection" (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/lawhouhtml/lawhousubdivs.html).
- Digitized images (made from copy negatives) and associated identifying information are available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/lawhouquery.html
- Photographs are listed by number in the accompanying catalog: Gems of California scenery ... / photographed and published by Lawrence & Houseworth. 3rd ed. San Francisco, 1866. The catalog lists over 1,100 views within the series.
- Photographs bear printed captions and item numbers.
- Original prints have been mounted on bond paper by the Library.
- LOT title devised by Library staff.
- Special Collections in the Library of Congress / compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1980, no. 142
- Purchase?; 1867?
- A set of catalog records describing each item is available through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. See http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lcoa1.about
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- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: LOT 3544 (F) [P&P]
- Medium: ca. 900 photographic prints : half-stereograph, albumen ; 8.5 x 9.5 cm.
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- Call Number: LOT 3544 (F) [P&P]
- Medium: ca. 900 photographic prints : half-stereograph, albumen ; 8.5 x 9.5 cm.
- Access Advisory: Surrogates are provided in preference to the originals, as per Divisional preservation policy.
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