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	"'SHASTA SPRINGS" Shasta Springs, California R. J. Waters, photographer c. 1910 ST CO970 The image is 118 x 180 mm on a mount measuring 178 x 228 mm.
	"STR. SOLANO. PORT COSTA" San Francisco Bay, California R. J. Waters, photographer c. 1910 ST CO971 The image is 118 x 180 mm on a mount measuring 178 x 228 mm. When the Central Pacific acquired the California Pacific and rerouted its transcontinental line to Benicia, it needed a way to get its trains across the narrow but deep Carquinez Straits to Port Costa. In 1879, it built the giant car ferry Solano, which could carry an entire freight train or two passenger trains. Solano carried on alone until 1914, when the Southern Pacific built the Contra Costa (II). Both boats carried on until 1930, when a railroad bridge from Benicia to Martinez opened. Solano was the largest ferry on the bay.
	"OAKLAND FERRY" San Francisco Bay, California R. J. Waters, photographer c. 1910 ST CO972 The image is 118 x 180 mm on a mount measuring 178 x 228 mm.
	"GENERAL VIEW OF SITKA ALASKA" Sitka, Alaska Lloyd V. Winter and Percy E. Pond, photographers 1896 ST CO973 The image is 113 x 192 mm on a mount measuring 144 x 221mm.
	"'VIEW IN HAVANA HARBOR" Havana, Cuba Photographer unknown c 1890 - 1900 ST CO974 The image is 94 x 145 mm on a mount measuring 110 x 165 mm.
	SAN FRANCISCO STREET SCENE San Francisco, California Carleton Watkins, photographer c. 1875 - 1880 ST CO975 Carleton Watkins was the famed photographer of San Francisco and Yosemite Valley, later to become Yosemite National Park. His images included mammoth plates of the California landscape, stereocards revealing the beauty of the landscape and the city, and a smaller number of "boudoir"- format images, including this image, of select scenes in the city. This card places Watkins' Studio at 427 Montgomery in San Francisco, which address he used beginning in 1879. Having lost his business including his negatives to bankruptcy in 1875, this image must be placed between that date and several years after opening at 427 Montgomery. The view presented in this photograph would have been destroyed in the 1905 earthquake and fire, which also destroyed all of Watkins lifetime of work. The image is 128 x 198 mm on a mount measuring 132 x 212 mm.
	OCTAGO BEACH / HARBOUR Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand F. A. Coxhead, photographer c. 1890 - 1900 ST CO976 "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is written into the negative of this down-under beach scene. The card, obviously, was used as a holiday greeting. Coxhead was a Dunedin photographer at the end of the 19th century; his images populate New Zealand archives. In the lower right corner is a blind stamp that reads "F. A. Coxhead Princes S^t Octagon." There are no other markings. The image is unfaded; the card is slightly bumped on its perimeter as shown. The image is 99 x 150 mm on a mount measuring 109 x 165 mm.
	GARDEN OF THE GODS Colorado Springs, Colorado Photographer unknown c. 1910 ST CO977 This delightful image, by an unknown photographer, is hand-colored with extreme precision. The round format and embossed mount is typical of the period, designed to appeal to a consumer audience. The image is perfect, as is the mount card, with only slight bumping on corners as shown. It possesses no markings. The image is 94 mm diameter on a mount measuring 137mm square.
	"ST. VIEW, STETTLER, ALTA" Stettler, Alberta, Canada Photographer unknown c. 1906 - 1908 ST CO978 Stettler founded in 1905, and this photograph was taken between 1906 and 1908. By 1910 this street has many times more buildings and was as busy as a western Canada frontier town could be. Today this same street sports a Best Western motel and nearby a stands a Wal-Mart. The maker of this image was probably the new photographer in town. The image is on a postcard mount with standard postcard printing on the verso, but no message. The title on the front is in the negative, not overwritten the photograph. The condition is very good. The image is 87 x 140 mm.
	GERMAN VILLAGE Neustadt, Germany (?) A. Reinhard, photographer 1890 - 1900 ST CO979 The village pictured in this photograph has not yet been identified, only that the photographer, A. Rinehard was from Neustadt in Germany. It may well be his home town, but since there were several dozen towns named Neustadt (New Town) in Germany and Austria at the turn of the century, considerable research would be required to determine which it might be, if any. A blind stamp in the lower left corner reads "A. Reinhardt Neustadt a/H." The image is unfaded and virtually perfect; the card mount is bumped as shown. The image is 174 x 226 mm on a mount measuring 195 x 220mm.
	OTTAWA SKYLINE Ottawa, Quebec, Canada A. G. Pittaway, photographer 1875 - 1890 ST CO980 The image is 125 x 165 mm on a mount measuring 203 x 253 mm.
	LONGS PEAK INN AT SUNSET Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado Enos Mills, photographer c. 1910 - 1920 ST CO978 The image is 80x 134 mm on a mount measuring 92 x 145 mm.
	MT. ROBSON Mt. Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada Photographer unknown 1916 ST CO978 The image is 175 x 228 mm.
	CITYSCAPE Location unknown K. T. Sheldon, photographer c. 1890 ST CO980 The image is 114 x 192 mm on a mount measuring 132 x 215 mm.
	HOMESTEAD CABIN, AMERICAN WEST Location unknown Photographer unknown 1893 ST CO980 The image is 115 x 195 mm on a mount measuring 201 x 250 mm.
	Vintage Landscapes Either identified places or identified (sometimes historically important) photographers, or both. Old Homestead/Cabin an exception. Late 19th - early 20th (1875 - 1920) century images. Shown with mountings, regardless of condition. Not shown in proportion to each other; sizes indicated,
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