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dc:coverage California
dc:coverage Nevada
dc:coverage San Francisco (Calif.)
dc:coverage Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
dc:creator Lawrence & Houseworth, publisher.
dc:creator Lawrence & Houseworth.
dc:date 1862-1867
dc:description 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
dc:description 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.
dc:description LOT title devised by Library staff.
dc:description Original prints have been mounted on bond paper by the Library. DLC
dc:description 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.
dc:description Photographs bear printed captions and item numbers.
dc:description Purchase?; 1867?
dc:description Special Collections in the Library of Congress / compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1980, no. 142
dc:description Surrogates are provided in preference to the originals, as per Divisional preservation policy.
dc:identifier <http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/lawhouquery.html>
dc:language eng
dc:rights No known restrictions on publication.
dc:subject California--1860-1870.
dc:subject Central Pacific Railroad Company--1860-1870.
dc:subject Cities & towns--California--1860-1870.
dc:subject Cities & towns--Nevada--1860-1870.
dc:subject Mining--California--1860-1870.
dc:subject Mining--Nevada--1860-1870.
dc:subject Nevada--1860-1870.
dc:subject San Francisco (Calif.)--1860-1870.
dc:subject Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--1860-1870.
dc:title Lawrence & Houseworth photographs of Northern California and Western Nevada from the series Gems of California scenery
dc:type Albumen prints
dc:type Cityscapes
dc:type Stereographs
dc:type collection
dc:type image
dc:type still image
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