Buildings; Church bells; Church buildings; Landscape drawing; Missions; Pencil drawing; Spanish mission buildings United States; Landscape; Rivers; Views
Signed (lower right corner) pencil sketch of the mission church and surrounding buildings. "The Belfry" is labeled with a depiction of the church bells in the lower center of the drawing. The manilla colored paper used for the sketch is worn,...
Photographic print of a pencil drawing. Information beneath title reads: "Sheriff and posse conducting a band of criminals towards San Luis Obispo. (The northrooms in 1852 the scene of the murder of the Reed family by outlaws). A scene of the...
Landscape drawing; Missions; Spanish mission buildings United States; Views; Mission San Francisco Solano (Sonoma, Calif.); Pencil drawing; Missionary settlements
Original pencil drawing on lined paper of an aerial view of the mission and its nearby surroundings in 1832. Particular areas of the mission have been labeled in Spanish: the rooms of the fathers, the bell tower, the church, the cemetery, the...
"The Sutro Tunnel and the Bank of California" is the headline for Virginia City, Nevada on Tuesday, September 20, 1869. The article transcribes a speech, given by Adolph Sutro, delivered at Piper's Opera House. The article also provides...
Mission San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel, Calif.); Landscape drawing; Missions; Spanish mission buildings United States; Views; Cemeteries; Housing; Pencil drawing; Missionary settlements
Pencil drawing of the mission in 1820 and its nearby surroundings on lined paper. Depictions referenced in drawing are: a detailed description of the mission, a fruit orchard, houses of the escort, an artificial lake used to water the orchard, a...
Mission La Purisima Concepcion (Calif.); Housing; Landscape drawing; Missions; Missionary settlements; Mills and mill-work; Spanish mission buildings United States; Views;
Pencil drawing of the mission and nearby surroundings on lined paper. Sketch includes Spanish labeled depictions of the following: the church, housing for the Fathers, housing for escorts and Indians, a corral, and the detailed drawing of the...
Pencil drawing of the mission and nearby surroundings during 1817-1834 on lined paper with labels and notations in Spanish. Depictions include the following: detailed description of the Mission and its buildings, housing for troops and their...
Artists' books; Voyages and travels; Souvenirs (Keepsakes); Cities and towns; Buildings; Landscape; Rivers; Harbors
This book is a collection of photographs, reproductions of paintings, newspaper articles and a manuscript document. The photographs and reproductions include images of German churches and other buildings, Egyptian pyramids and a monumental...
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)".
Hand-written notes taken verbatum by Vischer from Alfred Robinson's description of the Bay of San Francisco (1846). Note paper folded in half and hand-sewn with string. Notes include descriptions of the San Francisco Bay, the Mission Dolores, Santa...
Photograph of an original drawing by Vischer. Tigertown (Barrio du Tigre) the quondam outbuildings of the Mission of San Luis Obispo in the northern outskirts of town.
Inscription describes scene as, "A solitary adventure amidst the snowdrifts and precipices of the Sierra Nevada (May 14, 1867) drawn from recollection. The horse rescued next day with the kind assistance of my generous friends of Sierra Valley."
Views of mission ruins in old San Diego. Above: "Ruins of the Presidio of San Diego at the entrance of Mission Valley, 1874". Below: "Distant view of the mission ruins in San Diego, from the river bend [in] Mission Valley (1874/.75)".
Photographic print of a pencil drawing. Information beneath title reads, "The lower (older) portion of the town, and the old mission buildings, as seen from the mission orchard."
Church buildings; Missions; Portrait photography; Spanish mission buildings United States; Mission San Rafael Arcangel; Pencil drawing; Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1808-1890; Missionary settlements
Pencil drawing of the mission in 1831 drawn for Senior General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo in 1878. This original bosquejo, or sketch, of mission buildings is signed in the lower right corner. A photograph of M. G. Vallejo is located in the upper...
