Glass negatives, Mission San Juan Capistrano,, 1907 February 2.
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains photographic negatives and prints not mounted in albums relating to William McPherson and his family. The core of these materials is the “McPherson negatives”, numbering over 371 items. The majority of these images were taken between 1906 and 1912 in San Juan Capistrano and environs, during McPherson’s initial term as schoolmaster there, and document various aspects of life in rural Orange County in the first decade of the 20th century. The prints in the William McPherson photograph album of 1906-1907 (Box 9, Folder 1) derive largely from these negatives, and the subseries contains an additional two folders (Box 18, Folders 15 and 17) of prints from this source. The subseries also contains 8 glass negatives—and 18 prints derived from them--of Mission San Juan Capistrano taken by McPherson in February 1907. Additional materials in this subseries include photographs of William McPherson, 1904-circa 1959; of Cora McPherson, 1916-1945, removed from her letters to William McPherson by an earlier processor of the collection; of the McPherson residence and library, taken after the first break-in in 1961; of 10 women in Cape Vincent, New York, 1893, with a combined age of 796 years; of Joseph O'Keefe, OFM, Mission San Luis Rey, 1907-1909; and of an unidentified family (possibly Stephen and Jennie McPherson, William’s parents) taken in Los Angeles in approximately 1880.
Dates
- Creation: 1907 February 2.
Creator
- From the Collection: McPherson, William (Creator, Person)
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Record Group: 11 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Description
8 glass negatives.
Repository Details
Part of the 01 - Special Collections & Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library Repository
800 North Dartmouth Ave
Claremont CA 91711 United States
Email: specialcollections@claremont.edu