"Impressions Photographic & Otherwise/ California/ 1907", kept by Francis Burnham Rigby (1878-1918), an electrical engineer seasoned traveller from Manchester, with the foreword "It is not my intention in this little booklet to give any minute description of people or places but merely to chronicle my impressions of this part of California, and illustrate it with photographs taken, either by my camping partner Mr Morcom, or myself, the small Brownie photos being taken by my partner, the larger Kodak ones by myself./ My criticisms of American ways and methods are simply from personal observation, with as our American friends would say 'all the bias and prejudice of an Englishman'./ I would say that this book was produced, even to the binding, in the open, under camp conditions", with the text on the left-hand page and photographs facing on the right; the photographs recording San Francisco bay (with paddle steamer), Tamalpias (and station at top), Blythdale, their tent, Van Wyck's, Morcom at camp and hunting, 'Annette' (a fine study of a child à la Japonaise), the Berkeley Hills, camp in Indian Gulch, the Anana (Berkeley Yacht Club), Vallejo (Yacht House), Mare Island (with US armed cruisers), USS Cincinnati, Eddy Street (shew wreckage), the ruined City Hall, "View of San Francisco from 925 Franklin St", "Call. Bdg. San Francisco", "Ferry Bdg. Market St. S.F.", Post Street (with extensive scaffolding), City Hall 14th Street, the Masonic Temple Oakland, scenes on Lake Merritt "The 'cop'", "Chinese at 7th Station. Oakland", Office of the Oakland Gas Light & Heat Co, "a fire call", "Fire on 12th St/ Arrival of the Hose Wagon", "A cement handhole Oakland", "Pipe obstruction in manhole Oakland", Washington St Oakland, "Laying duct for underground cable system Oakland", "Gas & Electricity Station 1st & Grove Sts Oakland", "Overhead feed wires & Gas holder Oakland", "Transmission Line 60,000 Volts", "Broadway Oakland June/ 07", "Pole ready stripped for lowering Broadway Oakland", "Lowering Pole on Broadway Oakland", "Suspended ready for lowering Broadway Oakland", "Manhole & cover Oakland", and "Cable construction in manhole Oakland", with a "Sketch Map of Bay Counties" drawn from the Berkeley Hills by Rigby, and a copy of his obituary; together with an bound album of later snapshots, in a suede-bound album, small folio, 1907
"Impressions Photographic & Otherwise/ California/ 1907", kept by Francis Burnham Rigby (1878-1918), an electrical engineer seasoned traveller from Manchester, with the foreword "It is not my intention in this little booklet to give any minute description of people or places but merely to chronicle my impressions of this part of California, and illustrate it with photographs taken, either by my camping partner Mr Morcom, or myself, the small Brownie photos being taken by my partner, the larger Kodak ones by myself./ My criticisms of American ways and methods are simply from personal observation, with as our American friends would say 'all the bias and prejudice of an Englishman'./ I would say that this book was produced, even to the binding, in the open, under camp conditions", with the text on the left-hand page and photographs facing on the right; the photographs recording San Francisco bay (with paddle steamer), Tamalpias (and station at top), Blythdale, their tent, Van Wyck's, Morcom at camp and hunting, 'Annette' (a fine study of a child à la Japonaise), the Berkeley Hills, camp in Indian Gulch, the Anana (Berkeley Yacht Club), Vallejo (Yacht House), Mare Island (with US armed cruisers), USS Cincinnati, Eddy Street (shew wreckage), the ruined City Hall, "View of San Francisco from 925 Franklin St", "Call. Bdg. San Francisco", "Ferry Bdg. Market St. S.F.", Post Street (with extensive scaffolding), City Hall 14th Street, the Masonic Temple Oakland, scenes on Lake Merritt "The 'cop'", "Chinese at 7th Station. Oakland", Office of the Oakland Gas Light & Heat Co, "a fire call", "Fire on 12th St/ Arrival of the Hose Wagon", "A cement handhole Oakland", "Pipe obstruction in manhole Oakland", Washington St Oakland, "Laying duct for underground cable system Oakland", "Gas & Electricity Station 1st & Grove Sts Oakland", "Overhead feed wires & Gas holder Oakland", "Transmission Line 60,000 Volts", "Broadway Oakland June/ 07", "Pole ready stripped for lowering Broadway Oakland", "Lowering Pole on Broadway Oakland", "Suspended ready for lowering Broadway Oakland", "Manhole & cover Oakland", and "Cable construction in manhole Oakland", with a "Sketch Map of Bay Counties" drawn from the Berkeley Hills by Rigby, and a copy of his obituary; together with an bound album of later snapshots, in a suede-bound album, small folio, 1907
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