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- Frontier Settlement
- Frontier and pioneer life; Wagons
- A frontier settlement and landscape. Image includes horses, covered wagons, camels, and people.
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- Carson Plains
- Wagon trains; Frontier and pioneer life
- Plains travelers with a wagon and horses in the foreground, three wagons in the background.
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- Clover Valley
- Landscape; Views; Frontier and pioneer life
- Includes a small dwelling in the foreground, people in action, a figure on a horse, and wagons. Portions include writing designating color scheme.
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- The Mission Era: California Under Spain and Mexico, and Reminiscences
- California Description and travel; California History; California, Northern; California Pictorial works; California, Southern; Canyons California; Church property; Coast Ranges; Frontier and pioneer life; Farm life; Franciscans; Indians of North...
- Individual photographs of Vischer's drawings and related materials grouped into four sections and dedicated to the Society of California Pioneers. Contains historical perspectives about the Californian Missions, including lists of missions and...
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- The Mission Era: California Under Spain and Mexico, and Reminiscences
- California Description and travel; California History; California, Northern; California, Southern; Church property; Frontier and pioneer life; Farm life; Franciscans; Indians of North America California; Jesuits; Land Use; Manuscripts; Missions;...
- Notes and writings on the history of the California mission era. It was published as a supplement to Vischer's Pictorial of California, and includes lists of missions, missionary Fathers and comparative data. This book contains the text found in...
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- Washoe Valley. Encampment of Emigrants at the foot of the Sierra Nevada
- Camp sites, facilities, etc.; Immigrants; Frontier and pioneer life; Valleys
- Photographic print of a pen and ink drawing depicting an immigrant encampment in Washoe Valley (Sierra Nevada). Title includes "(Retrospect 5)". However, it should be "(Retrospect 6)".
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- Stanislaas Meadows, Sept 9, Zook & Kerricks Peaks, Niswander Range
- Meadows; Landscape; Frontier and pioneer life
- Recto: hidden homestead in a meadow setting below rock formations atop hill. Verso: rough sketch for another drawing (House in Woods).
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- East Summit of the Sierra Nevada
- Landscape; Frontier and pioneer life
- Landscape scene with an oxen drawn cart in the foreground, mountains and trees behind.
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- Vischer's Pictorial of California
- California Description and travel; California History; California, Northern; California Pictorial works; California, Southern; Canyons California; Cedar; Church property; Coast Ranges; Coast redwood; Cypress; Frontier and pioneer life; Farm life;...
- The text portion of the book contains three sections, each giving essays and descriptions about the landscape photographs, the trees and forests of California, and its geology, respectively. The next three sections contain individual photographs...
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- The Descent Carson Valley
- Frontier and pioneer life; Camp sites, facilities, etc.
- Depicts a temporary encampment in Carson Valley. Image includes horses and camels.
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- Vignettes of the Californian Missions
- Art portfolios; Missions
- Scrap book #2 compiled for William Hilton. Images incorporate Vischer's mission sketches with vignettes of life in California (mid-1800s).
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- The Big Desert
- Deserts; Frontier and pioneer life
- Inscription reads, "Emigrant boy rescued from starvation by a hunter (Febr 6. Carson River)." Photograph contains areas of over exposure.
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- The Devils Gate of Flowery District
- Frontier and pioneer life; Landscape
- Rugged mountain landscape with fences and dwellings in the background.
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- Sierra Valley
- Frontier and pioneer life; Valleys
- Single home located in Sierra Valley. Inscription states, " ... the sources of Feather River, the north fork. Sierra Valley. Grouse-Supper at the preacher's home."
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- Falls of the Lake Truckee River at the Outlet of the Lake
- Landscape; Rivers; Frontier and pioneer life
- Photograph of a landscape drawing. Complete inscription reads, "Winter's station on the lake about 2 miles ahead, the trapper station 3 miles below. (Charles frozen to death within sight of his home)".
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- Alice's Mountain Home
- Mountains; Dwellings; Frontier and pioneer life
- Homestead in the Sierra Valley.
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- California I: Landscape
- California -- Pictorial works; Landscape; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.); Lake Tahoe (Calif. and Nev.); Mountain passes--Coast Ranges; Aqueducts; Frontier and pioneer life; Ranch life; Voyages and travels; Cattle
- One of three books depicting California through art. This collection is comprised primarily of items also located in Visher's Views of California. The book consists of photographed drawings and paintings pasted onto individual pages.
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
- California III: Miscellaneous
- California--Pictorial works; Landscape; Gold mines and mining; Frontier and pioneer life; Ranch life; Farm life; Livestock; Missions; Missionary settlements; Indians of North America--California; Coast Ranges; Pacific Ocean; Whaling; Ships; Voyages...
- The third of three books depicting Northern and Central California through art. Included are photographed drawings by Vischer and others of miscellaneous subjects. The book consists of albumen photographs mounted on paper and pasted onto individual...
- Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material