Thursday, March 24, 2016

Harry Babcock Collection

The Harry Babcock Photograph Albums collection contains 175 photographic prints taken between 1881 and 1883, presumably by Harry Babcock. The collection contains many scenes of outdoor recreational activities, including hunting, fishing, boating, and camping. The natural locations photographed include Yosemite, San Andreas Lake, various parts of the Sacramento, McCloud and Pitt Rivers, Lagunitas, Mt. Tamalpais, Mt. Shasta, Eddy Mountain, San Francisco Bay, Mud Lake, Picayune Lake, Buck Lake, Castle Lake, Pilarcitos, and the Suisun marshes. There are also photographs of Babcock's hunting dogs, hunting partners, and killed game.

According to Langley's San Francisco Directory of 1881-1882, Harry Babcock was a clerk at Parrott & Co. and resided at 11 Essex Street in San Francisco. The collection features several photographs of this residence. The partners of Parrott & Co. were Louis B. Parrott, William F. Babcock, and William Babcock. Both William F. and William also resided at 11 Essex Street and are referred to in the albums' captions. The relations among the three Babcock's is undetermined.

 At Buck horn Camp. 1881
  
 At North Fork camp, 1881
  
 Buck-horn camp - breakfast, 1881
  
 Mud Lake. 1881
  
North Fork Camp. 1881

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Fiji

These photos of Fiji were taken in 1939.

  
  
  
  
  
 
Source: Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Misc New Zealand

 Ace-High Dance Band, ca 1928
  
 Austin 7 cars in Gover Street, New Plymouth, waiting to see 
Miss Gladys de Havilland, on her world tour in an Austin 7, ca 1929
  
 G Young (left) and "Curl" seated on the bonnet of an Austin 7 car, ca. 1929
  
 
 Horse drawn wagon on a muddy road, at 
Frederick Truby King's farm in Tahakopa, 1911-21
  
 Sylvia Ashton-Warner at the seaside, 1928
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Sidney Charles Smith

 Lambton Quay, Wellington, with Government Buildings on the left, 1920s
  
 Looking west down Queens Wharf, Wellington, 1908-1910
  
 Manners Street, Wellington, looking east, ca 1928
  
 Street in Waipukurau township, ca 1920s
  
 Victoria Street, Hamilton, ca 1920s
  
Victoria Avenue, Wanganui, ca 1920s
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Friday, March 18, 2016

Eugène Trutat

 Bicycles, Luchon, 1900
  
 Church at Seinteris, July 1905
  
Gathering in Luchon, CAF, [women and girls], September 10, 1893
  
 Prazol road, Foix, November 1905
  
 
Promenade by donkey and horse, Luchon, September 1900